In comics and graphic humour, a cartoon, a word that comes from the French vignette, is a box delimited by lines (or scenes without a frame) that represents a moment in the story. It is considered to be the pictographic representation of the minimum significant space and/or time, and constitutes the minimum unit of a comic.
In graphic humour and comics, a succession of two or more vignettes arranged horizontally is called a "strip", while single-frame jokes or illustrations are called a "vignette".
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The 28-year-old activist and painter Atena Farghadani was arrested in Iran on 23 August 2014. Her "crime", in the eyes of the Iranian judiciary, was to depict members of parliament with the heads of different animals. Illustration by Atena Farghadani posted on Facebook These MPs are currently working on a plan to criminalise
Sunday's cartoon in "Looking at a woman's breasts for ten minutes can extend men's lives by five years". This headline, and many others derived from it, based on a supposed study that no one has been able to read, continues to be published because that is how bad the click business (not reporting)
Cover of Siné Hebdo issue 1, 10 September 2008 2008. Creating a magazine from scratch in three weeks during the summer, the challenge seemed impossible. That was the reckoning of Maurice Sinet, "Siné", one of the founders of Charlie Hebdo in 1992. He had just been sacked from Charlie Hebdo. In his column,
They have succeeded, there is no news item about the murder of Isabel Carrasco that does not have another one embedded in it about the arrests of tweeters, calls for the "regulation" of the territory of internet evil, the hatred of digital poisoners and the like. This issue has ended up soaking up
Translation of the cartoon: The female character asks: "But how can Israel violate with impunity all human and international laws? The man answers: "Our good money is costing us". It was not the first time that cartoons about Israel's condemnable actions in Palestine provoked complaints and accusations of anti-Semitism (the eternal catch-all to
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