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Cartoonist vs Cartoonish - What's the difference?

cartoonist | cartoonish |

As a noun cartoonist

is (comics) person who creates a cartoon or strip cartoons.

As an adjective cartoonish is

exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon.

cartoonist

English

Noun

(wikipedia cartoonist) (en noun)
  • (comics) Person who creates a cartoon or strip cartoons.
  • (comics) Person who both writes and illustrates comic books or graphic novels.

    • Synonyms

    * comics artist , comic artist

    Derived terms

    * webcartoonist

    Related terms

    * graphic novelist * animator

    Anagrams

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    cartoonish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exaggerated or caricatured, in the manner of a cartoon
    • She was grinning a big, cartoonish grin.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish , good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}

    Synonyms

    * cartoony

    Derived terms

    * cartoonishly