Comic Strip
A Comic Strip is a comedic narrative in the form of a sequence of drawings.
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- It can range from being a Short Comic Strip (such as a gag-a-day strip) to being a Long Comic Strip.
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- It can be from a Comic Strip Series.
- It can be used to convey humor, moral lessons, or social commentary in a concise and accessible format.
- It can reflect current events or cultural phenomena, using humor or satire to provide commentary.
- It can involve recurring characters or themes, but each strip can usually stand alone without requiring prior knowledge of the series.
- It can be from a Comic Strip Series (such as Bloom County).
- It can be featured in specific sections of newspapers or websites dedicated to comics or entertainment.
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- Example(s):
- A Bloom County Strip (from Bloom County series) from October 8, 1985, where Opus the penguin decides to run for office, a satirical take on the concept of politics.
- A Calvin and Hobbes Strip (from Calvin and Hobbes series) from November 18, 1985, where Calvin imagines himself as a dinosaur, highlighting the blend of imagination and humor.
- A Peanuts Strip (from Peanuts series) from October 2, 1950, where Charlie Brown is introduced, marking the debut of this iconic character.
- A The Far Side Strip (from The Far Side series) from January 12, 1981, where a cow invents the concept of “cow tools”, illustrating Gary Larson’s unique brand of absurd humor.
- A Garfield Strip (from Garfield series) from June 19, 1978, where Garfield first appears, showcasing the character’s early personality and the comic's focus on everyday humor.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Comedic Video Narrative, such as a comedic TV episode.
- Political Cartoon, which focuses on a single issue or event, often using a single image with minimal text, rather than telling a sequential story.
- Manga Chapter, which refers to a section of a longer serialized manga, usually part of a larger story arc, differing in format and cultural context from a Western comic strip.
- See: History of The British Comic, Winsor McCay, Little Nemo, Sunday Strip, Comics, Serial (Literature), Speech Balloon, Glossary of Comics Terminology#Caption, Newspaper, Magazine, Daily Comic Strip, Sunday Newspaper, Comic Book, Cartoon, Graphic Novel
References
2024
- (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/comic_strip Retrieved:2024-8-17.
- A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics.
Most strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke, and Pearls Before Swine. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in Popeye, Captain Easy, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, and Terry and the Pirates. In the 1940s, soap-opera-continuity strips such as Judge Parker and Mary Worth gained popularity. Because "comic" strips are not always funny, cartoonist Will Eisner has suggested that sequential art would be a better genre-neutral name. Comic strips have appeared inside American magazines such as Liberty and Boys' Life, but also on the front covers, such as the Flossy Frills series on The American Weekly Sunday newspaper supplement. In the UK and the rest of Europe, comic strips are also serialized in comic book magazines, with a strip's story sometimes continuing over three pages.
- A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics.