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Toon
"Toon" or "tune" was a popular designation in the days when news reels and cartoons ran ahead of the feature presentation in films, it was not brought to popularity with Roger Rabbit (though this may have revived modern usage). Examples predating or concurrent with Roger Rabbit include "Loony Tunes" & "Tiny Toons". Modern MMO players refer to their online characters as "Toons" as well. It seems like this language should be conistant with the language [here] as well. 66.92.15.93 02:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

"Motion Pictures" section
The "Motion Pictures" section says cartoons "are created by showing illustrated images in rapid succession to give the impression of movement". Then, it says "Animated material which does not fit the traditional conventions of Western animation, such as Japanese anime are often confused with the definition of cartoons. Anime comprises an entirely different genre in and of itself, giving it a distinguishable quality setting it apart from cartoons." That's clearly a POV statement. The definition of an animated cartoon would extend to any moving picture created with drawings, regardless of the nationality of the people who animated it. 67.187.239.163 06:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * What? It's not talking about nationality at all. It's referring to style and history. Did you read what you quoted or just skim over it? (You and your Sailor Moon...)

Is "cartoons in the porn industry" really relevant?


 * I vote to move this to its own page 20:38, 2004 Nov 23 (UTC)


 * I vote the same. It looks as if it doesn't belong there.--Kaonashi 01:56, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I also agree. It certainly doesn't deserve a third of an otherwise short article. MK2 06:58, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * OK I've removed the bulk of it, it's moved to Hentai if someone wants it. Steverapaport 16:59, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Hentai is the anime style of cartoon pornography which is a subset of cartoon pornography which itself is a subset of cartoons. As such I believe it should be included in this article.  ShaunMacPherson


 * Well you're in luck, because the article does mention hentai. If someone wants any detail about it, they can read the wikilinked article. Tverbeek 14:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

"Comic strips are either individual drawings or a series of (usually) three drawings side-by-side. Each square of a strip is referred to as a 'cell' " Why "cell", instead of panel?

Also, I would differ between "Comic Strips" and "Cartoons", in that "Cartoons" only have one panel, while "Comic Strips have" several. Arguably, Comic Strips are a form of cartoons, though not necessarily the other way around...


 * I think you should just make the correction in this case, not argue about it. I did. Steverapaport 15:16, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Wait just a minute. I've heard "cartoon" used to describe multi-panel comic strips plenty of times.  And in particular, those who draw comic strips are almost invariably called "cartoonists."  I'm going to ask for a citation on this one. 98.26.100.15 (talk) 01:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, update on what I just posted--this page is locked to unregistered users, so I can't make my edit. Thus, this will require further discussion. I would request someone to add a "citation needed" to the sentence in question, although, given the warning at the top of the page, perhaps this is not necessary after all. Nevertheless, I think this particular item warrants discussion, which I encourage. 98.26.100.15 (talk) 01:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I fixed it, changing "not often" to "sometimes", since I've also read and heard comic strips being called "cartoons". --Janke | Talk 16:37, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

I was sorely tempted to change the caption on the "Mad Scientist" cartoon to "Leonardo da Vinci" creating one of his "cartoons". But I resisted temptation. Steverapaport

Animation
I AfD:ed the article cartoon physics a few days ago, but the vote is definetly going to be keep. However, I still feel that if there are sub-articles of this one which are important enough to keep, the information should be mentioned here. Animated cartoons in general are very briefly summarized here when there's definetly a lot more material out there.

Peter Isotalo 18:57, 7 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I am creating a new article, Animated cartoon (which was once a one-paragraph stub, and is now a redirect here), which should be a general analysis of the animated cartoon, with sections about development and history, technologies, notable artists and producers, TV and commercial animation, etc. This article in progress can be edited here: Cartoon/Animated cartoon. When it is in shape, it can be moved to its proper place. Good idea? --Janke | Talk 04:20:53, 2005-09-08 (UTC)
 * Done. Please feel free to edit and expand the article. --Janke | Talk 05:45:47, 2005-09-08 (UTC)
 * Ok, but please concentrate on expanding the information in this article before expanding the sub-articles. Taking into account how major this topic really is, this article is barely above stub level and creating off-shoots is not really justifiable. There are way too many neglected top-level articles, particularly about pop culture, that get either very brief or outright bad treatment just because people concentrate on sub-sub-sub-articles. / Peter Isotalo 06:39, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I really consider this page a disambiguation page! Animated cartoon certainly is not a sub-sub-sub-article! There are three topics here; art, cartoons, and animation. Putting all info about animation here would swamp the other two subjects. I'd suggest writing proper articles for them, too - but that's not my kettle of fish! ;-) --Janke | Talk 07:02:33, 2005-09-08 (UTC)
 * This is what a disambiguation page looks like. Sometimes they might be bigger, like with French, but they are always rather bare-bones navigational aids. This is an actual top-level article, and intended to be read just like any other encyclopedic article. Considering how extremely eager everyone is about pointing out that we're not paper when voting to keep AfD:ed articles, it should apply to the major articles as well. Making sure that they are well-written is just as important in that case. Ignoring the top-level articles while concentrating on the far more specific and somtimes overly crufty sub-articles is making it easy on editors, but not on readers and that strikes me as a rather odd way of setting priorities. Are we writing this for our own enjoyment or because someone is supposed to read it and (hopefully) learn something from it? / Peter Isotalo 12:08, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know what a disambig page usually looks like. But animation is such a humongous field that you simply can't put it all under "cartoon". Should we put animated cartoon, animation history, traditional animation, claymation, stop motion, computer animation, and yes, even "cartoon physics" onto this page? I don't think so. That's why I put in the "Main article" link! A reader interested in the subject will surely follow any pertinent links. And besides, the correct term for an animated film is animated cartoon, since "cartoon" can mean at least three things... --Janke | Talk 17:42:33, 2005-09-12 (UTC)
 * The keyword is "summary". It can be everything from an entire article to just a single word. In some cases it may actually mean complete exclusion. In this case, I would say that animated cartoon should be merged here. The article contains so little actual content that it would hardly present a problem. Now, since you're disagreeing with my posts so heartily, I have to ask; are you actually opposed to expanding this article? / Peter Isotalo 17:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I never oppose expanding an article. (Do you?) However, what I oppose in this case is cramming everything onto one page, i.e. expanding this one with a ton of animation before there is more stuff about the cartoon in art, and editorial cartooning. The animation part would swamp the two "other cartoons". I have another idea, though: How about actually making this page a true disambig, and move the two other cartoon subjects to their own articles. In fact, editorial cartoon already exists, and I wrote animated cartoon myself because it didn't exist... Then, somebody with enough art history knowledge would need to expand Cartoon (art), and we would have the three subjects nicely separated, nicely detailed, and could make cartoon a pure disambig. You must admit that the three subjects are different enough to merit their own articles, right? But - OTOH, you say: The keyword is "summary". Hmmm... if all the articles in Wikipedia were "summaries", then the whole project would lose its usefulness to many people. I tend to use WP to get in-depth information on something I already know a little about. If all I could get would be "summaries", I'd lose interest fast!  --Janke | Talk 07:10, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is intended for everyone, not experts or aficionados. If you're losing interest, then read about something you don't know much about. If you want super-in-depth knowledge of your own field of expertise, this is probably not the place to look for it. Believe it or not, most people want to read about things you might find boring, tedious or self-evident. Wikipedia is primarily intended to inform and educate its readers, not to please its editors. / Peter Isotalo 15:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Now you're misunderstanding. I was not speaking of subjects I'm editing on, i.e. "my own field of expertise"! I'm talking about WP as a general reference, in any subject I (or you, or anybody else, in fact) might be interested in. In general, when I look up something here, I'd indeed like to see an in-depth article, and not just a summary. I repeat from my previous post: "if all the articles in Wikipedia were "summaries", then the whole project would lose its usefulness to many people." Don't you agree with that? If you do, then a corollary would be that we need proper articles for all three types of "cartoon", right? --Janke | Talk 17:58, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess there's nothing more to discuss, since there doesn't seem to be anything to actually disagree on (except that you're using your own, very narrow and slightly pejoritive definition of "summary"). Just try not to ignore the article while creating countless sub-definitions. It's a lot easier to sync articles if sub-articles are created after there is enough material to motivate one, rather than trying to figure out the individual hierarchy and relationship afterwards, like you're doing now. / Peter Isotalo 19:31, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * FYI: The only "sub-division" I've ever created here was animated cartoon. All the other already existed... This discussion started with cartoon physics, and there's a healthy merging discussion/operation going on there. --Janke | Talk 05:50, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Caricature and cartoon
What is the difference between caricature and cartoon? Is caricature by definition included as cartoon or the same as cartoon or else? Can probably somebody explain about the relation between cartoon and caricature in this article? Thank you. sentausa 11:49, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say a cartoon is a medium (probably several more or less related mediums/media), while a caricature is a drawing style. 惑乱 分からん 12:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Cartoon style as distinct from cartoon media
Wikipedia seems to lack a page on cartoon style or cartoonishness, which is distinct from the various media we call "cartoons," and also distinct from caricature or caricature style. Cartoon-style art (in animation or print media) is characterized by heavily stylized and abstracted images, usually humorously distorted. There's also an argument to be made that cartoonishness goes beyond just visuals; as a style/aesthetic it can be applied to all different kinds of media, much the way camp and Symbolism go beyond any one type of medium. R.

Can you help me please to identify the distinction or the difference between a CARTOON and an ANIME, i just needed them in my research work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.217.101.85 (talk) 07:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Cartoons from Poland
Hi, Just curious. One day I placed an external link to http://www.cartoon.com.pl. Later it was removed, then it got back. Now it is removed again. Is it a vandalism or this link was considered as spam? In my opinion this site was OK, it was not commercial. Greetings --PhilYY 12:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Even if a link is not spam or vandalism, they are often removed because they do not fit the requirements of the external links policy. --Mdwyer 03:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Cartoon Character Identification
Wikipedia needs a page of "police mugshot"-like pictures of all cartoon characters (organized by what? Gender? Age?), so people have a chance of identifying a character if seen outside of his rectangular newspaper cartoon box or comic book. Jidanni (talk) 01:59, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * That would probably be impossible, due to copyrights. There are very special requirements allowing using a non-free image of a cartoon character - a list or a gallery is not allowed. --Janke | Talk 08:31, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Print media
I think this sentence is confusing:


 * "The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title "cartoon" was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians."

What does this mean? Can this be clarified?Komowkwa (talk) 02:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I've flagged that as needing a citation, but it may just need to be removed altogether. A quick web search suggests that the only appearances of the phrase "Mr Punch's face is the letter Q" may be on sites that have scraped this Wikipedia article. I suspect there may be no real basis for the assertion. Jcejhay (talk)

Language links
Language links need to be checked, it appears most of them point only to animated cartoon articles. --Janke | Talk 07:01, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

picture choice
Of all the nigh-infinite possible examples of unrealistic cartoons that could be used in this article, why ? Not only is it "not drawn to be realistic," it's just a crude eyesore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saint Ethereal (talk • contribs) 02:27, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It's free. See if you can do better. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't know of anyone, in the '80s, or otherwise, that says "toon" instead of "cartoon." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.242.114.255 (talk) 23:56, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

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"Political cartoons can be humorous or satirical, sometimes with piercing effect. The target may complain, but he can seldom fight back"
I chose not to add it myself due to possible recentism, but would it be acceptable to mention that recent occasion when somebody claiming to represent the target did fight back? &#39;&#39;&#39;tAD&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 15:53, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes that would be a very appropriate addition. No it is not recentism; Mention also the Copenhagen newspaper cartoon threats. Rjensen (talk) 23:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2015
i would like to edit this article because i found a grammatical mistake, and wish to fix it

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I think protection should be removed, it's long enough. Super Mario Guy (talk) 01:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

In poor state
Imho this article has many problems. The "Mass media" label seems to be intended to set the medium that most people will associate the word with apart, but the fine art sketches that this medium got its name from has hardly been called "cartoon" in the last 100 years or more, and animation is as much a part of mass media as print. The first part of the "mass media" section seems to be intended as an intro to divide the subject in categories, but it's unclear, poorly written, and very US-centered. In the whole of the article, the artists that are not known from US publications are from English speaking countries and are mostly mentioned in the historical context. Honoré Daumier is the one non-English speaking exception I could find. The "Mass media" intro does not describe the subject's role in mass media. It mainly blurts out names of artists that are presumably popular in the US, most of which I never heard of. Maybe not so surprising if its source really was the referenced 1959 book, but only one mentioned artist seems to have published anything before 1960. I could quite easily add a bunch of artists from my home country and some others that may be as influential on an international scale. Presumably the biggest problem is that this type of art, especially the editorial variation, has usually not been made for local and national newspapers and not for international audiences. Creating a long list of international artists, possibly divided per nationality, may not be the best solution. I'd like to see some explanation of the development of the genre and about which artists really made a difference (and how or why). I suppose the history of cartoons is described in the "Political" section, but the many readers that are not interested in politics might skip that. The "Comic book" section begins with a very poor explanation of what comics are mainly in the mind of US-readers (in many other countries the magazine format is far from standard), then has a few lines about 1930s history for no apparent reason and closes off with a description of a totally random example of a gag collection that was specially made for a car factory. Not sure whether I'll get around to do it myself, but it should be quite easy to improve on the current state. Joortje1 (talk) 07:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * There's a lot that's true here, but one bit that isn't is "the fine art sketches that this medium got its name from has hardly been called "cartoon" in the last 100 years or more". This remains absolutely the standard, indeed pretty much the only, term in art history. Johnbod (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out; I should have looked it up. I probably just assumed that hardly any artist would have called such sketches "cartoons" after the term started to be regularly used for the humorous type, but I forgot that this might at least not have changed for the historical examples. Maybe it would be best to create two different articles for these rather different subjects, but as yet there's very little info on the fine art type. I'm considering turning this page into a description of that subject and refer to political cartoon, gag cartoon, comic books and animation for the other types, and adjust Cartoon (disambiguation) accordingly.Joortje1 (talk) 08:11, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I think this page should stay roughly as it is, as a kind of super-disam page, given how many potential meanings there are. Animation is very rambling, and perhaps a split-off History of animation might help. Johnbod (talk) 15:04, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Eek, I see we already have that. This article needs a section on comic strips, to my mind. Other sections have WP:UNDUE stuff, as you point out.  These can be moved to the more specific articles. This one should have a group of rather short, streamlined sections, leading to the main articles.  Johnbod (talk) 15:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The fine-art sense of "cartoon" is not the primary meaning of the word; that isn't even a contender. When people say (or link to) cartoon there's a roughly 49%/49% chance they're referring to the illustration or animation sense. We could replace this article with just a bullet-list disambiguation page, but I think the overview here about the history of the term and how the different senses relate to each other is interesting and informative. There's room to improve it (less detail would probably be better), but I think WP is better with topic-overview pages like this (when possible) than just lists of articles. -Jason A. Quest (talk) 15:50, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. It's not "the illustration or animation sense" so much as the 5,6 or more possibilities in that area. Johnbod (talk) 16:00, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 September 2021
Please add so people can distinguish them. WikiTom-TheCat (talk) 16:54, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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WikiWorld Dr. Seuss cartoon is a poor example
Hi. This article needs a better example of a cartoon than File:Dr. Seuss WikiWorld.png. That image might be a copyvio -- it very closely lifts elements from Dr. Seuss drawings -- but that's besides my point: that it's not at all like modern cartoons. A modern cartoon consists of what? an image, maybe some speech bubbles or a caption, and a signature. This file is a weird self-referential thing with a ton of text from Wikipedia and a large logo, etc. I'm sure someone on Commons could draw something more like what you actually would see in a newspaper. This is a very bad example of modern cartoons. We could even use like,,, one of Seuss's cartoons like File:Dr Seuss and the wolf chewed up the children.jpg and it would be more representative of the common form of western newspaper cartoons in recent decades. DemonDays64 (talk) 09:05, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Animated cartoon is getting short shrift
I don't know the history, but this article used to believe there was a "main article" for animated cartoon, which is presently a redirect into the history section of animation, which does have a few paragraphs on the topic, as part of a much broader history lesson.

It appears as if some mergist proposed a merge of animated cartoon, which carried, but actually neither editorial community (here at cartoon or there at animation) really wanted to deal with this interloper as a first class entity.

I made the animation lead own the redirect for animated cartoon, by adding a bold term an a lead illustration (Felix the Cat) but for all I know it won't last long due to some allergic editorial reaction that seems to be lurking behind the curtain.

Not my knuckle-walking animated bulldog, so this is my one-and-done contribution. &mdash; MaxEnt 13:59, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Dr. Seuss 66.85.230.208 (talk) 03:42, 18 September 2023 (UTC)