comic strips

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of comic strip.
  comic strip

  noun

  a sequence of drawings, either in color or black and white, relating a comic incident, an adventure or mystery story, etc., often serialized, typically having dialogue printed in balloons, and usually printed as a horizontal strip in daily newspapers and in an uninterrupted block or longer sequence of such strips in Sunday newspapers and in comic books.

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comic strips

It displays the type of images that fascinated him in his youth and shaped his approach to filmmaking: chiefly graphic art, illustration, magazine covers and comic strips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Once a stray, Socks became the star of several books and was often featured by the UK cartoonist Steve Bell in his daily comic strips.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

“No one reads the comic strips in newspapers anymore,” Menta said, “but if you think about it, a four-panel comic strip, it’s actually an Instagram carousel.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

Unlike daily comic strips, political cartoons were intended to stay with the reader long after they’d turned the page, becoming a source of conversation and introspection that could take place throughout the day.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025

I grabbed several comic strips and headed out-of-doors, away from it all.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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