POLITICAL CARTOONS

Caricatures are probably the oldest form of pictorial humor, where caricare in Latin means “to overload, or exaggerate.”

The main stylistic devices here are distortion and exaggeration, and the main subject, famous people.

The term Cartoon originally comes from the Italian word ‘cartone’ and means a strong, heavy paper or pasteboard. It denotes a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for further drawings, such as a painting or tapestry.

Punch applied the term to satirical drawings by publishing some parody drafts for frescoes (also called cartoons) and making the term’s new meaning permanent.

A cartoonist’s craft may force them to limit their originality, because they have fewer than 10 seconds to grab the attention of viewers, and, in fact, to tell whole stories.

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