Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A usually humorous narrative sequence of cartoon panels: taped a comic strip to her office door.
- n. A series or serialization of such narrative sequences, usually featuring a regular cast of characters: a comic strip that has been syndicated for over 40 years.
Wiktionary
- n. A series of illustrations, in sequence, often but not necessarily depicting something funny or political in nature.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in “balloons” over a character's head, and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident; -- also called a
cartoon . Eachcomic strip contains typically from four to six panels arranged horizontally, but widely varying arrangements are published. In modern newspapers, weeklycomic strips are in color, and daily strips are usually in black and white. In some, the story depicted may be serialized and continuous, carried over from day to day or week to week. Stories of adventure, drama, mystery or an otherwise non-comical nature depicted in the same style are also calledcomic strips .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
Examples
“Yellow journalism, for example, is sensational in nature though it derives innocently from "The Yellow Kid," an early American comic strip which was printed in yellow.”
“And E.L. Chen's comic strip "Why Aren't We Crying" encapsulates this issue's theme in a witty, metafictional manner.”
Asimov's Science Fiction
“In the meantime I had also begun a comic strip for It, then the leading underground paper in Britain, with Mal Dean, who had illustrated many of the JC stories.”
Elric At The End of Time
“It was true that I did not care for Dazzle Dan, the hero of the comic strip that was syndicated to two thousand newspapers”
Triple Jeopardy
“In the comic strip B.C., the "Fat Broad" is apparently particularly enamoured of the word: on”
“(King Features) comic strip called, "Happy Hooligan.”
“Taverns The perennial comic strip "Andy Capp" has recently been banished from the Washington Post as an evil influence, and small wonder.”
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“The OED Supp. traces the word from an episode of the comic strip "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" written by Philip Francis Nowlan in”
“Certainly nothing could have been more calculated than the artwork for the album itself, the R. Crumb comic strip cover.”
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
“The panels of this comic strip are not of a uniform size; they, and what is in them, seem to have been drawn by an amateur or someone under duress.”
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