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Cartoon vs Comics - What's the difference?

cartoon | comics |

As nouns the difference between cartoon and comics

is that cartoon is a humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings while comics is plural of lang=en.

As a verb cartoon

is to draw a cartoon.

cartoon

Noun

(en noun)
  • (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
  • (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
  • (arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
  • (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon , lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • A diagram in a scientific concept.
  • Synonyms

    * (humorous drawing or strip) comic strip, strip cartoon * (satire of public figures) caricature, political cartoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (arts, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    comics

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • An artistic medium consisting of juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer (also, comix )
  • A collection of comic strips
  • (US) The page of a newspaper especially devoted to comic strips
  • Synonyms

    * (newspaper) funnies, funny pages, funny papers

    See also

    * comic book * graphic novel

    Anagrams

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