comic strip

noun

1. 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.

comic strip

noun

1. a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a humorous story or an adventure Also calledstrip cartoon

Word History and Origins

Origin of comic strip¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

Example Sentences

Use it to create comic strips and to turn your photos into coloring pages.

From Time

In the middle of 1968, a handful of comic strip fans decided to do something small to change their world.

From Washington Post

In 1950, when cartoonist Charles Schultz created the comic strip Peanuts, Snoopy, the pet beagle of lead character Charlie Brown, lived in a dog house, was rarely seen indoors, and was fed bowl after bowl of unappetizing slop.

From Quartz

Billy the Fish is the hero of an English comic strip about a fish-man hybrid who is a football star.

From The Daily Beast

After participating in online reality comic strip competition Strip Search, that idea morphed into OJST.

From The Daily Beast

While it angered fans to see the comic strip depart the funny pages, the animated version gained serious attention.

From The Daily Beast

While other jazz cats describe their music in liner notes, Carey relies on a comic strip.

From The Daily Beast

To paraphrase the famed comic strip Pogo, we have met the enemy ... and he is them.

From The Daily Beast

This new role of dodging the Gestapo appealed enormously to his comic strip sense of melodrama.

From Project Gutenberg

Madge exclaimed, relapsing into comic-strip slang as she always did when greatly excited.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot seem to appreciate the local art forms as disseminated by the juke box, the comic strip, the tabloid.

From Project Gutenberg

Past master in creating the comic strip with a side-splitting wallop.

From Project Gutenberg

Beetle Bailey is a comic strip character who walks around with his hat over his eyes very much as Oswald did.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cartoon
• comic