For me, it was something like those comic-strip characters who suddenly have light bulbs flashing as the word 'Eureka!'

Remember Bazooka Joe, the comic-strip character in the bubble gum package?

Barney is compared to Buster Brown a comic-strip character of the times.

But now, the comic-strip character is incensed because his wife, Blondie, has decided to move her home catering business to a downtown storefront.

This does not save him, in the end, from being hung by his heels, like a comic-strip character.

He shows, ultimately, that comic-strip characters can't hold too much depth.

The captain, or C. J., is a comic-strip character and should feel very much at home in the simple little world of network prime time.

The book's comic-strip characters were changed to movie cartoon characters, and the time was shifted to 1947.

Now, people in the $50 billion-a-year licensing industry say they sense a rise in use of old comic-strip characters to sell products.

In another suit, Koons is charged with incorporating a comic-strip character into an ensemble of figures.