Comic strip facts for kids

American comic strip of 1920

A comic strip is a series of panels with cartoon drawings in them that make a story. Sometimes comic strips are humorous, and sometimes they are serious. Famous examples of comic strips are:

• Peanuts by Charles Schulz and Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
• Motley's Crew by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman
• Between Friends by Sandra Bell-Lundy

There are comic strips in newspapers and on the web. Comic strips on the web are called webcomics. Penny Arcade and Xkcd are famous webcomics.

Images for kids

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  Illustrated Chips (1896). Harmsworth titles would enjoy a monopoly of comics in the UK until the emergence of DC Thomson comics in the 1930s.

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  Gene Ahern's The Squirrel Cage (January 3, 1937), an example of a topper strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's Room and Board.

See also

In Spanish: Tira de prensa para niños