comic strip

as in cartoon
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 strip Image As a child in the 1930s, Jules loved radio dramas and newspaper comic strips. Andy Webster, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025 The comic strip ran in The Village Voice from 1956 until 2000, and was syndicated to more than 100 newspapers. Denise Petski, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025 And Lynch was an avid painter and visual artist, who exhibited his work around the world and spent nearly a decade drawing his own comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 Use black-and-white print to create a timeless look, or wrap gifts in a colorful comic strip for children’s presents. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for comic strip
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Noun
  • Director Dean Fleischer Camp’s family adventure feels like an excessively earnest Disney Channel movie compared with the delightfully unhinged 2002 cartoon.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 May 2025
  • Hollywood as a city where humans and cartoons uneasily coexist—most notably in the segregated Toontown.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The strip gained rapid popularity in the 1990s for its humorous take on workplace culture, bureaucracy, and managerial incompetence, resonating particularly with tech and engineering professionals.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Star Toomey Age: 28 Hometown: Monrovia, Liberia Current residence: Augusta, Ga. Occupation: Sales expert Three words to describe you: Hilarious, smooth, laugh-out-loud funny.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The Ukrainians have knocked out at least two BTR-D funnies since November.
    David Axe, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The comic became especially popular in Mexico and Spain, both full of exiles from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, all of which had ultra-right-wing regimes at the time.
    Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
  • Eastman and Laird created a comic based on four mutant turtles that possess keen martial arts abilities, which was meant to be a one-shot, but ended up becoming a phenomenon.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025

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“Comic strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strip. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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