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Exploring the World of Cartooning

This quiz explores various aspects of cartooning, including the different formats, styles, and distribution methods used by cartoonists.

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1 Comic strip artists may also sometimes work in book-length form, creating ________.

2 When a consistent artistic style is wanted among different cartoonists (such as ________), character model sheets may be used as reference.

3 A cartoonist traditionally sketched his work out roughly in pencil first before going over the sketches in black ink, using either a brush or a metal nibbed ________.

4 Cartoonists may work in many different formats: single panel gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, or ________.

5 The word is sometimes used for those who create animated cartoons including ________.

6 Some comic strip creators publish in the alternative press or on the ________.

7 Many print cartoons are of the single-panel variety and are published in print media of various kinds, for example, in magazines such as ________ and Punch.

8 Such strips are distributed by syndicates[1] such as the Universal Press Syndicate, United Media or the ________.

9 Comic strips received widespread distribution through mainstream ________.

10 Sometimes the term "________" is used for cartoonists who produce long works.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip.
  • New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century.
  • Juan José Carbó was an award-winning cartoonist who drew for both adult entertainment and children's magazines while working as a civil servant.
  • Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse.
  • Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.
  • Stirling Moss is the only racing driver who was given a distinctive caricature design (wearing a helmet), differing from the usual design, by Autosport's cartoonist Jim Bamber in 1998.
  • Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état.
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