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as in funny papers
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as in picture books
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Besides brewery ads, comic strips, editorials and history lessons all leaned into this idea.—
Jay R. Brooks,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026 -
After working various office jobs, Adams created Dilbert in 1989, satirizing white collar work in what became one of the defining comic strips of the 1990s.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Jan. 2026
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After dropping his debut full-length, Rock with Sedaka, in 1959, Sedaka went on to release four original studio albums and scored back-to-back hits on the radio.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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Among the artifacts are Anne Frank’s first photo album, handwritten verses by Anne and her sister Margot in friends’ poetry albums, and a German fairytale book belonging to the two.—
Eva Remijan-Toba,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Long the purview of classrooms and anthologies, the canon is now of interest to the state itself.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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The pleasure, as with the unpredictable FX not-quite-anthologies Atlanta and Reservation Dogs, is in never knowing what each compact episode will bring.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Comic books.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20books. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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