Cartoon

Cartoon

In an archaic sense, a preliminary drawing done to the full size of a planned work and used to transfer the design to the wall, panel, or canvas; in a more familiar contemporary sense, a drawing, often reproduced in news and opinion periodicals, with primarily emotional, social and/or political import.

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