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cartoonist

cartoonist

57 3.1
A person who draws cartoons for newspapers or magazines
  • noun
  • /kɑrˈtunɪst/
translation icon : caricaturista
  • The magazine featured a well-known cartoonist who illustrated humorous political commentary.
  • a professional cartoonist
  • work as a cartoonist
  • cartoonists draw

I'm here with Peter Bag, cartoonist, author and Reason contributor.

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Examples

  • My my advice to any young aspiring cartoonist would be to gain some other skills.

  • Have you always wanted to be a cartoonist?

  • You gonna be a cartoonist for a big newspaper or something?

  • I wanted to be a cartoonist or a comic book artist, which nobody I knew wanted to be or wanted to do.

  • Along with what he earned as a cartoonist, he had substantial income from a family trust.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The faculty, Student Council and editors have all met and selected the new cartoonist for the school paper.

  • Despite Peter Arno's success as a cartoonist, his personal life, as middle age settled in, was another matter.

    Academic text (1997)
  • I met a very wonderfully talented lady who was a political cartoonist, an English lady.

  • Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Portland's celebrity cartoonist John Callahan!

  • "My name is Minnie Goetze, and I'm an aspiring cartoonist."

Synonyms

artist
vscartoonist
1.0

A person who makes art like paintings or sculptures with imagination and feeling

limits work to drawing published humorous or satirical single images
illustrator
vscartoonist
39 3.2

A person who draws pictures for books or magazines

creates humorous published panels or strips intended as entertainment
graphic artist
vscartoonist
7 3.4

A person who makes pictures and page designs for posters, books, or websites

focuses on humorous single images for papers rather than commercial design
caricaturist
vscartoonist
1 7.7

A person who draws funny pictures by making someone's features look larger or smaller

focuses on varied published humorous drawings beyond portrait exaggeration
lampoon artist
vscartoonist
8.1

A person who draws funny pictures to criticize people or ideas

is broader making humorous pictures for publication not only satire
penciler
vscartoonist
  • Jargon
5.5

A person who draws pictures or plans by hand with a pencil

produces finished published humorous artwork rather than preparatory sketches

How Satirical

caricaturist
1 7.7
cartoonist
57 3.1
gagman
  • US
9.1

Surface Forms

cartoonist singular
cartoonists plural

Morphology

cartoonist = cartoon (transparent) = cartoon + ist

Formed by adding the productive agentive suffix '-ist' to 'cartoon'; a speaker who knows 'cartoon' will readily infer 'cartoonist' as someone who draws cartoons.

Etymology

The word cartoonist comes from cartoon, which comes from the Italian cartone meaning 'large sheet of paper' and from carta 'paper'. Artists once used these big paper sheets for full-size drawings, and later magazines used the word cartoon for short, funny or political pictures, so a cartoonist is someone who makes those drawings.