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A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, and can serve a political purpose, be drawn solely for entertainment, or for a combination of both.
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
A caricature is a humorous illustration that exaggerates or distorts the basic essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. According to the Indian cartoonist S. Jithesh , caricature is the satirical illustration of a person but a cartoon is the satirical illustration of an idea.
The wrapper was printed in black on front and back; the front had a woodblock vignette of four Lilliputian figures, surrounded by a letterpress inscription : 'The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror containing a most capital collection of Caricatures from original drawings by G.M.Woodward, Esq, Author of Eccentric Excursions in England ...
The caricature Prof. Darwin was published on 18 February 1874 three years after the publication of Darwin's seminal work The Descent of Man in Figaro's London Sketch Book of Celebrities. The artist is unknown. [citation needed] Man Is But a Worm, a caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne, was printed in Punch's Almanack for 1882 on 6 December 1881.
A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. [1] List of caricaturists. Abed Abdi (born 1942) Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) Al Hirschfeld (1903 ...
John Leech, Substance and Shadow (1843), published as Cartoon, No. 1 in Punch, the first use of the word cartoon to refer to a satirical drawing. In print media, a cartoon is a drawing or series of drawings, usually humorous in intent.
In time poverty overtook him; and the friendship and examples of James Gillray and Henry William Bunbury seem to have suggested caricature as a means of earning a living. His drawing of Vauxhall , shown in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by Pollard, and the print was a success.