cartoon
Animated funny picture
A cartoon is a drawing, typically humorous or satirical, often with captions or speech bubbles.
Editorial cartoons comment on politics; comic strips are cartoon sequences.
The word extended to animated films—motion pictures made from drawings—and now covers any animation: Saturday morning cartoons, a Pixar cartoon.
Cartoon also means a simplified or exaggerated version of something: He's a cartoon villain.
Overstating beyond reality
- distortionTwisting from original state
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
lampoon · ridicule · mockery · satire · editorial · portraiture · profile · political
Planned visual sequence drawings
- celTransparent sheet for cartoons
- keyframeFixed animation reference point
- frame-by-frameOne image at a time
- tweeningAutomated in-between frame generation
voiceover · rendering · stop-motion · claymation · flash · feature-length · syndication · dubbed
Made larger than reality
- stylizedGiven artistic treatment
- colorfulFull of varied hues
- whimsicalPlayfully fanciful or erratic
- zanyAmusingly absurd
slapstick · antic · gag · pratfall · rubber-hose · oversized · expressive · bouncy
Distinct flat section
- syndicationMulti-outlet content distribution
- dailyPer diem, repeated
- funniesNewspaper cartoon section
- columnVertical structural element
gag · serialized · peanuts · blondie
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- distortionTwisting from original state
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- sketchHasty informal drawing
grotesque · lampoon · ridicule · mockery · satire · editorial · portraiture · profile · political · punch
storyboard
Planned visual sequence drawings
- celTransparent sheet for cartoons
- keyframeFixed animation reference point
- frame-by-frameOne image at a time
tweening · voiceover · rendering · stop-motion · claymation · flash · feature-length · syndication · dubbed · sequel
exaggerated
Made larger than reality
zany · slapstick · antic · gag · pratfall · rubber-hose · oversized · expressive · bouncy · madcap
panel
Distinct flat section
- syndicationMulti-outlet content distribution
- dailyPer diem, repeated
- funniesNewspaper cartoon section
column · gag · serialized · peanuts · blondie
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- artepintura, oleo, sketch, croquis, tempera
- genresaction, comedy, detective fiction, fantasy, horror
- mediatelevision, mass media, news, broadcasting, video
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- televisionTV, television, broadcast, TV shows, TV series
cartoonlive-action
Filmed with real performers
documentary footage · reality television · newsreel · nature documentary · home video
cartoondocumentary
Factual film about reality
drama · tragedy · realism · prestige drama · homage
cartoonphotorealism
Art imitating camera accuracy
realist painting · fine art · hyperrealism · portrait · Renaissance painting
- milk cartonCardboard dairy vessel
- cartoon charactersFictional animated personas
- egg cartonCompartmentalized shell storage
- political cartoonSatirical illustration mocking governance
- animated cartoonFilm of sequential drawings
- cartoon seriesEpisodic drawn television show
carton, cartoons, cartoonist, cartooning, cartoonists, cartooned, cartoonish, cartoony, cartoonlike