Thesaurus results for COMIC STRIPS

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 Gal Gadot aside, the most prominent version of Wonder Woman etched in our collective cultural memory—the one from the classic comic strips and the TV series starring Lynda Carter—features her pointed tiara with a central red star. — Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 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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Noun

The show was in some ways an antidote to the world of Saturday morning cartoons.

— Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
At the same time, on a remote mountain in New Zealand, a little girl was running similar experiments, sublimating the language of cartoons into a supple personal vernacular.

— Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of cartoons

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That includes simple double-ribbon tail lights, a delightfully unfussy side profile, and absolutely astounding headlights that somehow emanate from jewellike strips that run across the nose of the vehicle.

— Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026
Sidewalk watering is more likely to happen where the sprinkler is too wide, so narrow grassy strips could be replaced with xeric landscaping or native plants, Howarth said.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2026

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