2. Noun. An artistic medium consisting of juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer (also, ''comix'') ¹
3. Noun. A collection of comic strips ¹
4. Noun. (American English) The page of a newspaper especially devoted to comic strips ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comics
1. comic [n] - See also: comic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comics
Literary usage of Comics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course in Journalistic Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde (1922)
"Advocates of the comics say that they furnish entertainment to many readers and
often ... In fact, many readers seem to select newspapers for their comics. ..."
2. The Morals of the Movie by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"CHAPTER III MELODRAMA, SERIALS AND "comics" IT has been said frequently and truly
that the prevailing type of " movie " play is melodrama, ..."
3. Missing the Lifeboat? by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"... fuels 01% made units of HATE comics In an article from the Jan. 14 edition of
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, written by Robert Holguin, “Peter Bagge is the first ..."
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