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comic strips

noun

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 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 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 Our daughter learnt how to draw comic strips with an Athenian cartoon artist and was keen to try the photography course and stargazing. — Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026 This book is bursting with classic comic strips to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025 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

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As the two most popular cartoons in the history of the Fox network, a crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy was inevitable.

— Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026
As always, feel free to jump into the comments for questions, more context, debates, or to talk cartoons and video games like usual.

— Jake Ciely, New York Times, 20 July 2026

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The pursuit came to an end after officers deployed spike strips and disabled the car.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2026
Edward’s new Adana filet saute is reminiscent of Iraqi beef chillifry and Turkish et sote, with strips of filet mignon sautéed with onions, tomatoes, pepper paste and a touch of Persian curry powder.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

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