comic strips

plural of comic strip
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. 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
  • 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
  • Johnson put the toy/comics/cartoons franchise on his large shoulders playing the machine-gunning Cobra hater.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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