comic strip
noun
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.
Origin of comic strip
An Americanism dating back to 1915–20
Words nearby comic strip
comfy,
comic,
comic book,
comic opera,
comic relief,
comic strip,
comic-opera,
comical,
comice,
comines,
cominform
Example sentences from the Web for comic strip
One of the greatest things about this picture-story or comic-strip form, it can balance the two things.
John Bolton, who was the U.S. ambassador to U.N., called it a "comic-strip approach to international affairs."
Comic-strip characters occupied a large part of the memory of those who grew up with the names of characters from books.
The Civilization of Illiteracy |Mihai NadinMadge exclaimed, relapsing into comic-strip slang as she always did when greatly excited.
The Secret of the Sundial |Mildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt
British Dictionary definitions for comic strip
comic strip
noun
a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a humorous story or an adventure
Also called: strip cartoon