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

The commission also denounced several of Bertoli’s public Facebook posts, some of which included Peanuts and Hagar the Horrible comic strips.

From Los Angeles Times

He grew up admiring comic strips such as “Spider-Man,” which his grandfather regularly clipped for him.

From Los Angeles Times

Her favorite is Condorito, a Chilean comic strip based on the exploits of a somewhat lazy but ingenious condor.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Bechdel, a cartoonist, is credited with popularizing that test in the 1980s by incorporating her friend Liz Wallace’s test about gender representation in film into a comic strip.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• cartoon
• comic