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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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Smith was already at Primavera to play — The Cure headlined the festival on Friday, their first show since their 2024 magnum opus Songs of a Lost World, one of their best albums ever.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
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Over the weekend, Humberstone — with two full-length albums under her belt now — played the main stage at New York City's Governors Ball Music Festival for the first time.—
Jack Irvin,
PEOPLE,
8 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 13 Jun. 2026.
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