Sunday funnies
Example Sentences
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“That it should look like Sunday funnies, comics and ‘Peanuts.’
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
As a boy, Mr. Cruse created theatrical shows and fell in love with the Sunday funnies, drawing his own cartoons about Landie Lucker, “the super elf.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019
That hair was meant to be an exaggeration, a silhouette straight of old-school movie-matinee serials and Sunday funnies.
From Time • Dec. 27, 2016
Back in 1900 the Sunday funnies were a crucial front in the newspaper circulation wars and, wonderfully enough, they’re, for the most part, the cultural news that has remained fresh all these decades later.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2013
The Sunday funnies influenced me, and although I admired the strong heroes who always conquered in the end, I identified with Tiny Tim.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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