Illustration vs. Cartoon: What's the Difference?

The act of illustrating or the state of being illustrated

A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.

A picture or image that is used to decorate or clarify a text.

A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically

An example that is used to clarify or explain something.

A preliminary sketch similar in size to the work, such as a fresco, that is to be copied from it.

(Obsolete) Illumination.

A usually short, animated movie or television program.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;

An animated character in a movie or television program.

The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

A comic strip.

Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

A ridiculously oversimplified or stereotypical representation

A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.

To draw a humorous or satirical representation of; caricature.

A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)

To make humorous or satirical drawings.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.

A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.

Artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

(arts) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.

Showing by example

(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.

An item of information that is representative of a type;

A diagram in a scientific concept.

A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.

(arts) To make a preliminary sketch.

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; - used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."

Same as comic strip.

A motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence

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