comic strip

Noun

Meaning

a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Joyce Carol Oates

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. Bill Watterson

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. Alison Bechdel

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies. Ben Affleck

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. Bill Watterson

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. Paul Scofield

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