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    cartoon
    A cartoon depicts parents with their daughter consulting with a man who is using Burke's Peerage to trace the
    lineage of a prospective son-in-law, illustration from Puck magazine, published in 1902.
    cartoon, originally, and still, a full-size sketch or drawing used as a pattern for a tapestry, painting, mosaic, or
    other graphic art form, but also, since the early 1840s, a pictorial parody utilizing caricature, satire, and
    usually humour. Cartoons are used today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion
    in newspapers and for social comedy and visual wit in magazines.

    A brief account of cartoons follows. For full treatment, see Caricature, Cartoon, and Comic Strip; for
    animated-motion-picture cartoons, see Motion Pictures: Animation.

    While the caricaturist deals primarily with personal and political satire, the cartoonist treats types and groups
    in comedies of manners. Though William Hogarth had a few predecessors, it was his social satires and
    depictions of human foibles that later cartoons were judged against. Honoré Daumier anticipated the 20th-
    century cartoon’s balloon-enclosed speech by indicating in texts accompanying his cartoons the characters’
    unspoken thoughts. Hogarth’s engravings and Daumier’s lithographs were fairly complete documentaries on
    the London and Paris of their times.

    Thomas Rowlandson lampooned the ludicrous behaviour of a


    whole series of social types, including “Dr. Syntax,” which may
    well be the grandfather of the later comic strips. Rowlandson
    was followed by George Cruikshank, a whole dynasty of Punch
    artists who humorously commented on the passing world,
    Edward Lear, Thomas Nast, Charles Dana Gibson, and “Spy”

    Dr. Syntax cartoon by Thomas (Leslie Ward) and “Ape” (Carlo Pellegrini), the two main
    Rowlandson cartoonists of Vanity Fair magazine.
    In the early 1800s Thomas
    In the 20th century the one-line joke, or single-panel gag, and the
    Rowlandson anticipated the comic
    strip in his Dr. Syntax series— pictorial joke without words matured and a huge diversity of
    humorous drawings using one cast of drawing styles proliferated. The influence of The New Yorker
    characters in a continuing story. magazine spread to other publications worldwide. The new
    cartoonists included James Thurber, Charles Addams, Saul
    Steinberg, Peter Arno, and William Hamilton of the United
    States and Gerard Hoffnung, Fougasse, Anton, and Emett
    Rowland of England.

    A Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was established in 1922,


    and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning was
    1 of 2
    awarded annually after 1942; such cartoonists as Jacob Burck,
    The New Yorker Herblock, Bill Mauldin, and Rube Goldberg won both. Carl

    The cover of the first issue of The New Giles was honoured with the Order of the British Empire in 1959
    Yorker, February 21, 1925. for his achievements in editorial cartooning.

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    The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most


    recently revised and updated by Meg Matthias.

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    The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of


    the United States, cartoon by John T.
    McCutcheon

    The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of


    the United States, cartoon by John T.
    McCutcheon in the Chicago Tribune,
    July 27, 1922.

    “The Automobile Mechanic,” cartoon


    by Rube Goldberg

    Rube Goldberg comic titled “The


    Automobile Mechanic,” from Puck,
    January 2, 1915.

    Citation Information
    Article Title: cartoon
    Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
    Date Published: 31 August 2024
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