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This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
Christ's Charge to Peter, one of the Raphael Cartoons, c. 1516, a full-size cartoon design for a tapestry. In fine art, a cartoon (from Italian: cartone and Dutch: karton—words describing strong, heavy paper or pasteboard and cognates for carton) is a full-size drawing made on sturdy paper as a design or modello for a painting, stained glass, or tapestry.
(In art, a cartoon is a pencil or charcoal sketch to be overpainted.) The British magazine Punch , launched in 1841, referred to its 'humorous pencilings' as cartoons in a satirical reference to the Parliament of the day, who were themselves organising an exhibition of cartoons, or preparatory drawings, at the time.
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing [1] cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators / artists in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Plane Crazy, one of the earliest golden-age shorts.. The golden age of American animation was a period that began with the popularization of sound synchronized cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended in the 1960s when theatrical animated shorts started to lose popularity to the newer medium of television.
Bryant has written a number of books on the history of cartoons and has edited more than thirty short story and cartoon collections. [1] He has been honorary secretary and vice president of the British Cartoonists' Association and honorary secretary of the London Press Club. [1] He was a trustee of the Cartoon Museum. [2]
The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, with a foreword written by Chuck Jones.. The book features the fifty greatest cartoons of all time, selected by a group of 1000 cartoon historians, animation professionals and film critics.
A Washington Post cartoonist announced that she had quit the paper this week because it rejected her cartoon of Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos groveling to President-elect Trump. Post ...