Cartoons, strip cartoons, comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or
form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th
century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with horizontal strips
printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in
special color comics sections. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as
webcomics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American
newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes.

Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist/cartoonist. As the name implies, comic strips can be
humorous (for example, "gag-a-day" strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke, and Pearls
Before Swine).

Starting 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. Soap-opera continuity
strips such as Judge Parker and Mary Worth gained popularity in the 1940s. All are called, generically,
comic strips, though cartoonist Will Eisner has suggested that "sequential art" would be a better genre-
neutral name.

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 or more. Comic strips have appeared in American magazines
such as Liberty and Boys' Life and also on the front covers of magazines, such as the Flossy Frills series
on The American Weekly Sunday newspaper supplement.

Example 1

No balloons here.
The flea is tricking each other into confusion that this is not a cat but is on a dog,
which is already correct.

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Example 2

The characters’ words are in balloons

The cashier asked Grandma “Did you find everything okay?” but Grandma replied
that “I’m still looking for love”…

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 Example 3

In some cartoons and strip cartoons, the characters say very few words, or say nothing at all, but still they
can make the readers laugh.

Fat and skinny kids are playing with the seesaw, but when they play at the same
time, the skinny kids thrown into the sky. We can see that this cartoon picture does
not need a word but can makes us laugh.

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Vocabulary
sequence noun ลำดับ
confusion noun ความสับสน
traditionally adverb ตามเนื้อผ้า
appear verb ปรากฏ
seesaw noun กระดานหก
continuity noun ความต่อเนื่อง
weekly adverb รายสัปดาห์
supplement Verb เสริ ม