''Rhymes with Orange'' is an American
comic strip
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written and drawn by
Hilary B. Price and distributed by
King Features Syndicate
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. The title comes from the commonly held belief that no word in the
English language
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rhyme
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s with "
orange". It was first
syndicated in June 1995.
While the strip has no named recurring characters, common themes include
cat
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s,
dog
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s, and absurdities of modern life. It appears in over 400 newspapers daily, and won the Silver Reuben for "Best Newspaper Panel Cartoon" from the
National Cartoonists Society
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in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
has assisted Price on her comic strips since 2016 and is now a co-cartoonist with the strip.
Collections
Three strip collections have been published, ''Rhymes with Orange'' (1997), ''Reigning Cats and Dogs'' (2003), and ''Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy'' (2007).
See also
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Examples of "orange" in poetry
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Bizarro
Bizarro () is a supervillain or anti-hero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Otto Binder and artist George Papp as a "mirror image" of Superman, and first appeared in ''Superboy (comic bo ...
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The Far Side
''The Far Side'' is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrea ...
References
External links
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Interview with the cartoonist ''Washington Post'', 2002
Interview with the cartoonist Comic Book Resources, 2008
American comic strips
Gag-a-day comics
1995 comics debuts
Comics about cats
Comics about dogs
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