In the comic strip they engaged in dialogue in balloons in the standard comic strip format.
I regard it as being part of the fantasy of a comic strip world, but it should be read so that we know how others are thinking.
It is unfortunate that, whenever this subject comes up for discussion, it tends to be treated something like a comic strip and to evoke hilarity and amusement.
I think "comic strip"is the right description for it, though"comic" should imply that something is funny and this strip never seems to be; but that is by the way.
Let us remember that we are talking about something infinitely below the newspaper comic strip.
The misadventures and misdirection of ordinary mail would provide enough agonising material for a comic strip series.
That inability to see the world except in the terms of the most primitive comic strip is immensely dangerous.
I have the brochure here, and everyone can see that it is a comic strip and therefore fictional.