The art or practice of creating cartoons, whether as comic strips, animations, or single-panel humorous drawings.
Gerund form of 'cartoon,' derived from Italian 'cartone.' As an art form, cartooning emerged in earnest in the 18th century with political satire and became a major industry with newspaper comics in the late 1800s.
Cartooning is one of the few art forms where being 'bad at drawing' can actually be your style—the simpler and more exaggerated, the more expressive it becomes, which is why kids' cartoons have influenced how billions of people see and understand the world.
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