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 first campaign cartoon is by Kwennie Cheng, a member of the Press and Print Foundation. Members of the Press & Print Foundation (Stichting Pers & Prent), a Dutch cartoonists' organisation that supports political artists and freedom of expression in the Netherlands, joined other media organisations to protest against a proposed tax increase ... Read more
This is an automatic scheduled summer post. Comments may remain in moderation. While half the world soaks its arse anywhere on the coast or inland, Israel is pressing ahead with its plan to devastate the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and to wipe the Palestinian people off the map while continuing to ... Read more
I'm sure you've come across some of these obtuse people, because there are more than a few of them. You may even be one of them. In that case, please take at least three deep breaths in and out and indulge yourself in a relaxing, leisurely reading of this text. The person in ... Read more
Patriotic police. Cartoon of 13/07/2024 in CTXT Translation of the cartoon: "Years later the sewer was still emanating 'patriotism'". According to elDiario.es and El País, the police spied for months on at least 55 Podemos MPs between 2015 and 2016 when Mariano Rajoy was in power, although depending on the media outlet you ... Read more
Global computer crash. Cartoon of 21/07/2024 in CTXT TR: "Didn't you keep a backup copy?" Although everything was recovering and the global Windows crash stopped being talked about in catastrophic terms thanks to a rogue update of the Falcon anti-virus from the security company CrowdStrike, the associated problems continued for several days afterwards, ... Read more
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