comic stripn.
/ˈkɒmɪk strɪp/, U.S. /ˈkɑmɪk ˌstrɪp/ Originally U.S.
A sequence of illustrations telling a story or part of a story, often consisting of panels designed to be read horizontally, usually combined with speech and other narrative; also with the, such works as a genre. See also comic n. 4c, comic n. 4b, strip n.2 1e.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > comic or cartoon
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1913 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 28 Apr. 4/1 ‘Home Wanted’, the comic strip which has been running daily in the Altoona Mirror and which has been the most real kind of success from the first.
1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 47 The comic strips in the papers.
1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 38 Mild-looking middle class boys Who read the comic strips.
1966 Statesville (N. Carolina) Record & Landmark 21 Apr. 11/6 A parody on the popular super-hero comic strips of the 30s.
1989 A. C. Danto in Nation (N.Y.) 22 May 710/2 Characteristic Lichtensteins..had in turn appropriated the idiom of the comic strip.
2002 Chicago Tribune 20 Jan. iv. 1/6 The online comic strip ‘Astounding Space Thrills’ is syndicated to more than 3,000 Web sites.
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attributive. C1. Of, relating to, or from comic strips.
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1915 Cartoons Mag. May 132/2 He stopped short in the way indicated by the comic-strip artists by a few dashes and a cloud of dust.
1931 Technol. Rev. Nov. 66/1 That class of comic-strip words like zowie and pow.
1971 J. S. Bruner Relevance Educ. (1973) viii. 127 A comicstrip series, featuring a physics teacher (who moonlights as a private detective).
2007 New Yorker 22 Oct. 164/3 A 1934 exhibition of comic-strip art at the St. Paul Public Library.
C2. Resembling or evocative of the characters, situations, etc., in comic strips; characterized by lack of realism; hyperreal.
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1936 Nevada State Jrnl. 3 Aug. 8/2 This comic-strip version of the head hunters was exploded tonight by bare-footed Kata Ragoso, a black chief from the Solomon Islands.
1986 D. Potter Singing Detective iii. 91 He is screaming with comic-strip rage.
1993 J. Barnes in I. Hamilton Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. (1999) 549 Much of this is comic-strip simplification.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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comic strip
e. A sequence of small drawings telling a comic or serial story in a newspaper, etc. Frequently as comic strip. Also transferred. Originally U.S.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > comic or cartoon
drollery1600
comic cut1831
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comic strip1913
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strip cartoon1936
manhwa1988
1920 L. N. Flint Editorial x. 229 In the paper..the week-day issues contain a preponderance of syndicate features—‘comics’, ‘strips’..and continued stories.
1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 47 The comic strips in the papers.
1928 Daily Sketch 7 Aug. 4/2 I keenly appreciate the qualities that make Pop the greatest comic strip in the world. No comic strip artist..has the same facile and generic lines the creator of Pop possesses.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 537 Such wear a frillick for my comic strip, Mons Meg's Monthly, comes out aich Fanagan's Weck.
1943 D. Powell Time to be Born (new ed.) iv. 95 She had a curious impression of being in a Buck Rogers strip..and gazing into another planet.
1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles ii. 38 Mild-looking middle class boys Who read the comic strips.
1967 Listener 21 Dec. 821/3 This feedback from strip to pop and back into strip again is very noticeable.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 7 b/6 Why, you might wonder, would Universal and NBC risk an expensive space comic strip like ‘Buck Rogers’?
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