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
Blaise is the latest work inspired by Planchon’s comic strip following the titular protagonist through his tween years through to adolescence.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2026
Netflix also gave a shoutout to a famous Argentine comic strip and a big sci-fi name.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
At first glance, the small colored drawing by Kushawn Miles El reads like a comic strip.
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CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
The memo even explicitly bans Stars and Stripes from publishing comic strips.
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Maria Aspan,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2026
Netflix also gave a shoutout to a famous Argentine comic strip and a big sci-fi name.
—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
At first glance, the small colored drawing by Kushawn Miles El reads like a comic strip.
—
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
The memo even explicitly bans Stars and Stripes from publishing comic strips.
—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comic strip
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To this day, his 2019 Aladdin movie still ranks as one of the most rip-roaring live action adaptations of a Disney cartoon while his take on Sherlock Holmes was more of a bare-knuckle bruiser than a debonair detective.
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Yes, the popular Japanese trading card game (cartoons, movies and video franchise) that has made anime characters like Pikachu, Charizard and Geninja nearly as famous as Depay or Lionel Messi.
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After completing his four-year stretch, Clayton-Thomas in 1962 began frequenting the music scene on the Yonge Street strip, when Arkansas rockabilly great Ronnie Hawkins gave him his first paying job in music.
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Looking Back To Move Forward Leight started Archives in 2010 on Abbott Kinney Boulevard, a trendy mile-long strip in Venice Beach, California.
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Lowbrow sources such as Sunday funnies, B movies, and advertisements are present but are more diffuse, rarely coalescing into obvious quotation.
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The show is laugh-out-loud funny.
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Dujardin and Dana have fine chemistry, but Dujardin’s best chemistry is with Ficarra, an Italian comic with exaggerated features and a love for the zanier aspects of the story.
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The legendary comic’s last credit was the CBS series The Royal Family, which Murphy created and which reunited Foxx with his Harlem Nights costar Della Reese.
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“Comic strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comic%20strip. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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