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comic strip \com"ic strip`\ (k[o^]m"[i^]k str[i^]p), n.
a brief sequence of drawings, usually with characters drawn
only sketchily, as in a cartoon, with dialog written in
"balloons" over a character's head, and depicting a fictional
and usually comical incident; -- also called a {cartoon}.
Each comic strip contains typically from four to six panels
arranged horizontally, but widely varying arrangements are
published. In modern newspapers, weekly comic strips are in
color, and daily strips are usually in black and white. In
some, the story depicted may be serialized and continuous,
carried over from day to day or week to week. Stories of
adventure, drama, mystery or an otherwise non-comical nature
depicted in the same style are also called comic strips.
[PJC]


Cartoon \Car*toon"\, n. [F. carton (cf. It. cartone pasteboard,
cartoon); fr. L. charta. See 1st {card}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a
model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making
of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as,
the cartoons of Raphael.
[1913 Webster]

2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine;
esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
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3. same as {comic strip}.
[PJC]

4. a motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each
being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame
produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which
the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so
as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a
motion picture on the screen. The types of characters
portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to
those in a {comic strip}.
[PJC]