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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Cartoon of 04/04/2021 in CTXT This was discussed less than a week ago, but it already seems like three quinquennia ago. After several entries of the police by kicking (battering ram) on the door or by the method of the slip without a warrant in … Read more
“Fascism according to some (too many) media”. Cartoon of 03/04/2021 on CTXT Spanish media and fascism I think that if you were to ask a hundred people at random for a definition of “information”, you would get almost a hundred very similar definitions with their … Read more
Whitewashing fascism Fascism according to some (too many) media. Cartoon of 03/04/2021 in CTXT I think that if you were to ask a hundred people at random for a reasoned definition of “information” you could get almost a hundred very similar definitions with their corresponding … Read more
Misinformation in cartoons Three investigators from the Universitat de València point out the overrepresentation of iconic animals of climate change, such as polar bears and penguins, in cartoons that deal with the climate emergency. In a paper entitled “Worlds apart, drawn together: Bears, penguins and … Read more
Art Young. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Arthur Henry Young (Illimois, 1866), better known as “Art Young”, was one of the most widely recognised and followed cartoonists of the golden age of American radicalism. Young enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Design … Read more
