comic books

noun

plural of comic book
1
as in funny papers

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2
as in picture books

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  1. comic strips
  2. albums
  3. anthologies
Noun
  • The memo even explicitly bans Stars and Stripes from publishing comic strips.
    — Maria Aspan, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Besides brewery ads, comic strips, editorials and history lessons all leaned into this idea.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
Definition of comic strips
Noun
  • Only one song on the 19-song set list was released this year, and the majority came from albums that are at least 16 years old.
    — Joseph Hernandez August 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
  • One attracted attention worldwide and set a record for the highest sales in the first week in South Korea among debut albums released that year.
    — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of albums
Noun
  • The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
  • Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Definition of anthologies
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“Comic books.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20books. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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