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comic strips

  • plural
    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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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

Like comic strips, the predellas contain a series of interlocking, loosely sequential stories, typically the lives of saints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Syndication was popular because it allowed local newspapers to get popular comic strips to their subscribers each morning.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

Almost every morning he was gone, we talked briefly on the phone after I read the newspaper comic strips, and I would ask him when he was coming home.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024

I looked around at all the scraps of comic strips littering the bed.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

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