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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In the past, The Observer has won multiple Pulitizer Prizes, including two for public service and three for editorial cartoons.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Oct. 2025
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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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The new Frank’s RedHot Diablo sauce features Frank’s classic Buffalo flavor, adding it to tacos, burritos, strips and Nacho Fries.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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In the ’50s, before digital audio, the audio strips were on the inside of the film strip’s perforations, meaning the image itself was slightly narrower.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Comic strips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strips. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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