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Puck magazine cartoon, 1902 Colorful 1813 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson showing a crowded tavern scene with men and women in period dress drinking, talking, and socializing, with dogs and kitchenware visible. The New Yorker Cartoon map by John T. McCutcheon exaggerates New York City in the foreground with labeled regions representing the rest of the United States, depicted as small, distant areas. “The Automobile Mechanic,” cartoon by Rube Goldberg Caricature of Thomas Paine “That reminds me, dear—did you remember the sandwiches?” by Fougasse (Kenneth Bird). Ulysses S. Grant for president War of 1812 political cartoon “Old Hickory” (Andrew Jackson)
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Fantasia (1940) Lobby card with Mickey Mouse in a scene from The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment from the animated film by Walt Disney. animated movie See NOTES
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Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 08, 2026
Add new Web site: Royal Academy of Arts - Art history 101: what is a cartoon? Jan 04, 2025
Add new Web site: Gresham College - The History of British Cartoons and Caricature. Aug 31, 2024
Media added. Jan 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Understanding the Early Television Cartoon. Apr 12, 2023
Add new Web site: The Cartoon Musuem - History of Cartoons and Comics. Feb 27, 2019
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Entertainment - Cartoon. Jul 25, 2011
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Cartoon. Jul 29, 2010
Added new Web site: The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain - History of the Cartoon. Sep 22, 2008
Added new Web site: Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Sep 08, 2006
Added new Web site: Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics. Jun 29, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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