as in cartoons
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
a comic strip that is beloved by both children and adults
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Recent Examples of comic strips
He was featured in tiny comic strips wrapped around pieces of Bazooka bubble gum.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The postwar best-seller Tezuka borrowed heavily from American newspaper comic strips and Walt Disney; Hayao Miyazaki has long praised France’s Mœbius.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The postwar best-seller Tezuka borrowed heavily from American newspaper comic strips and Walt Disney; Hayao Miyazaki has long praised France’s Mœbius.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comic strips
Noun
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Johnson put the toy/comics/cartoons franchise on his large shoulders playing the machine-gunning Cobra hater.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Without acknowledging it, this bookstore is a synthesis of every experiment in children’s literature from Babar the Elephant and the Pere Castor series in France to Mickey Mouse and cartoons in the United States, via innovative graphic design in Czechoslovakia and Russia in the interwar period.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, the operations supervisor in the tower was focused on trying to fix a printer which prints strips of paper with flight information and had jammed.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Along with its main collection that included the introduction of the new Maro geometric bag with loose napa leather strips knotted on the sides, Serapian displayed iterations of its iconic styles revisited by British designer Bethan Laura Wood.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Comic strips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strips. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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