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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cartoonist
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
political
▪ Its artist, Leon Kuhn, was in the early 1980s a political cartoonist for the New Statesman.
▪ Darling, the great political cartoonist.
▪ There will also be a new retrospective exhibition of the work of the political cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe.
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▪ A group of cartoonists got fed up when the Web site where they were posting their work PigPanda.com -- kept going down.
▪ But the Geordie cartoonist says producing the anarchic Viz is no longer a laughing matter.
▪ For cartoonists like Mel Calman and Posy Simmonds, success comes from making a picture say a thousand words.
▪ He now becomes a consultant, while continuing as a cartoonist.
▪ I consider myself a cartoonist in oils.
▪ Joe Shuster, cartoonist who developed the original Superman comic character, died Los Angeles, aged seventy-eight.
▪ Political cartoonists have taken the strange story for a zany ride.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cartoonist

Cartoonist \Car*toon"ist\, n. One skilled in drawing cartoons.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cartoonist

1855, from cartoon (n.) + -ist.

Wiktionary
cartoonist

n. 1 (context comics English) Person who creates a cartoon or strip cartoons. 2 (context comics English) Person who both writes '''and''' illustrates comic books or graphic novels.

WordNet
cartoonist

n. a person who draws cartoons

Wikipedia
Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is often created for entertainment, political commentary, or advertising. Cartoonists may work in many formats, such as animation, booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, gag cartoons, graphic design, illustrations, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, and video game packaging.

Usage examples of "cartoonist".

He was depicted by the satirical cartoonist Cruikshank as sitting on a fat cushion amidst the splendid chinoiserie of one of his many saloons, holding court while fawning courtiers, all in kimonos, bowed to him.

He made second and third and fourth lists of fifty philanthropists each, extending his sales-appeal from the innocent composers of books to newspaper editorial writers, colyumists, cartoonists, playwrights, and rich women reported as having attended public poetry-readings, and he widened his selling area to take in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, France, and Germany.

Though it tapered slightly fore and aft, it was by no means the streamlined cigar that cartoonists were fond of drawing to represent spaceships.

His grandfather, John Doyle, was the most brilliant political cartoonist of the early 1800's.

I picked up the telephone and invited the hopeful cartoonist to bring his proposals to the bank.

I guessed in a swift uncomfortable moment of insight that what they would discuss would be not primarily the cartoonist but the reliability or otherwise of my judgment.

Into there came the interest paid to us by cakes and water and cartoonists and ten thousand such.

The nation sat up and giggled, and the cartoonist telephoned breathlessly to ask for a bigger loan.

The American cartoonist Gary Larson who draws in the horror genre dedicates one of his books as follows: When I was a boy, our house was filled with monsters.

Used to consider myself a cartoonist, until art school beat it out of me.

Look, what would our cartoonists do if they wanted to satirize the Chinese, if we were in a period of extreme tension with the Chinese and the editorial cartoonists wanted to stir up a little patriotism?

Our former Willowsvillian cartoonist Chet Halloren was establishing an annual award for most talented cartoonist in the graduating class, and our local artists, photographer Kate Olmsted and painter Trish Elders, were establishing awards in respective fields.

His nose was prominent and had a twist in it as though it had been thumped' at some time or other, and the cartoonists would have no trouble taking the mickey if he ever attained a position of eminence.

He had been a good bluff man, in an affable salesman sort of way, full of clichés and politics and gallons of bourbon and Throttlebottom stances the cartoonists so enjoyed.

Could you please move your stupid hairy arm with the stupid waterproof watch that tells the altitude and the exact time on all seven continents which I know you so need, being such a fancy world traveler who knows so much about foreign policy and things a poor little cartoonist like me couldn’.