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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Original cartoon by Joel Barbee In my daily stroll through ToonPool I find this cartoon by the American cartoonist Joel Barbee among the most commented on the site. The subject is torture by the controversial Waterboarding procedure and the message Joel leaves is that justifying this method in interrogations of alleged terrorists does
Note the "subliminal" relationship between "red" and murderer as children's reading. Some images of Spanish Civil War comics from the exhibition, Children and Propaganda 1936-1939. Publications for children that had no sex but did call for violence at the top of their voices, including evangelism. Very martial arm-in-arm boys on the masthead of
Making toys. The pinball or ball machine, "petaco", etc. How to make a homemade Pinball with clothes pegs? Wood was one of the most common materials for making toys. How many scroll saws have we broken? To build the Pinball (ball machine) you needed, in addition to a fat marble or a steel
Making toys. Shotgun or crossbow. I start a small series of notes with a common theme, the idea comes from this post and the comment/question from thumbs up that made me remember long days making toys in an attempt to make them usable. I will try to show some manufactured "toys" that I
Alerted by a comment from colleague #Quim, I noticed in the mail of the cartoonists' community Toon Pool that, besides continuing to grow (it already hosts almost 11,000 cartoons by authors from all over the world), organises very interesting exhibition activities. One of them is the regular publication on the website of the
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