What is a cartoon? A cartoon is a drawing, a simple example of creative thinking and a perception of reality and the dream. By drawing cartoons, one improves creative skills.
Cartoons represent almost every aspect of life; They can be funny, serious, or erotic. In a few lines, the cartoonist manages to capture all the idea that he wants to convey, observe and exaggerate the features of the characters.
People have always associated cartoons with fun and childhood, because children love cartoons, they love drawings and they like to see them move on the screen or they like adults to read comics to them. In this way the path of children’s creativity is opened.
Political cartoons are special cartoons that represent current politics with humor and originality.
Political cartoons are considered historical sources just like newspapers, paintings, diaries, and documents. These types of cartoons communicate political messages about events and people of the time through images. Some cartoons do this simply to comment on political events and poke fun, other cartoons are evidence of the efforts of the people and the government to influence the people.
The universal truth is that most cartoons are drawn to make people laugh. They make normally serious politicians look ridiculous. By exaggerating situations and characters they become fun and daring; they ‘say’ things that people would not dare to say out loud. Cartoons are usually made up of two elements: caricature (a drawing that makes an individual amused by its appearance) and illusion (something that the cartoonists add but is not real, but is used to simulate a funny situation).
However, there are some cartoons that are not meant to be funny, they are tremendously serious.
Still, cartoons have an impact and are therefore memorable.
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