funnies

Examples

• All

• Every Saturday, my dad brings home the newspaper so we can read the funnies together.

• The Funnies, Inc. shop handled much of his comic book.

  Blog text (6)

• You got customers, they grab a beer, they read the Funnies.

  The Florentine (1999)

• Magic Mike Photos and Funnies Adult!

  Blog text (2)

• If you don't believe me, check out the Friday Funnies over at Reason Magazine.

  Blog text (11)

• I can relate to sleeping, eating, lifting, funnies, jokes, movies.

  You Should Know Podcast

• Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994. Print.

  Academic text (2012)

• Many readers enjoy the lighthearted stories in the Sunday funnies while sipping their morning coffee.

• The children laughed as they read the colorful funnies in the comic book.

Synonyms

C

cartoon

vsfunnies

156 1.0

A funny drawing in a newspaper that comments on news or politics

describes repeated panels that tell a short story or joke rather than one image

S

strip

vsfunnies

81 3.4

A short series of drawings that tells a joke or small story

focuses on the same newspaper or book context for those panel sequences

C

comics

vsfunnies

34 1.7

Stories told with pictures and words, like short books

is narrower applying specifically to short newspaper or book panel sequences

C

comic strip

vsfunnies

28 1.8

A series of drawings with short words that tells a short story or joke

is the usual newspaper name for those sequential illustrated panels

F

funny paper

vsfunnies

• Archaic

2 5.1

A section of a newspaper with comic strips and cartoons

refers to the individual short sequential drawings rather than the whole section

C

cartoon strip

vsfunnies

1 2.5

A series of drawings with short words that tell a joke or story

is the newspaper term for those captioned sequential drawings

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology