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as in funny papers
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as in picture books
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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
Noun
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That’s another signal of a fairly radical shift in Káryyn’s approach to her work in the seven-year gap between albums.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
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Rodrigo delicately rearranges the ideas that animated her first two albums.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
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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
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The journalist and host of BBC Radio 2’s lunchtime slot picks books ranging from murder mysteries to poetry anthologies.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
15 May 2026
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“Comic books.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20books. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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