Happy Cartoonist Day!

Today is National Cartoonists Day for 2025. A day to honor the people who enjoy comedy in cartoons. . .

Happy National Cartoonist Day ! ! ! 

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A Brief History:
Likeness: A time for comedy on video. Cartoons go back to the good old days of shuffling art cards, and the motion of each in order card. What a flashback!

Photo by Alexey_Marcov courtesy of Pixabay

Cartoonists Day:  Cartoons have their origins in Italy, where the term initially referred to the material used for drawing before transitioning to describe the drawing itself. Eventually, the definition broadened to include comic drawings, series of drawings, and animations. In the United States, Richard Outcault is recognized as a key figure in the development of modern comic strips. Outcault, a comic strip writer and artist, studied at the School of Design in Cincinnati and is renowned for creating iconic characters like The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown. His colorful drawings first appeared in the New York World on May 5, 1895, introducing readers to the mischievous young boy with big ears that would become The Yellow Kid, the first commercially successful cartoon character.

Sergio Aragones, genius cartoonist of Mad Magazine. From the early 1960s. courtesy of Openverse

Celebrated: Since 1990, National Cartoonists Day is celebrated every year on May 5^th.

1 3 09 Bearman Cartoon 2012 End of the World Again courtesy of Openverse

A Few Facts:
I am sharing a few facts, and more, some trivia, some not trivial. . .

Cartoons: Cartoons typically stay as being motion image, and movie style. Great artwork goes into each and every frame, but a lot of frames it takes. In the good old days, teams and teams of people it took to make up of a cartoon, in order to fulfill the promise of another cartoon due to the time consuming chore it was getting all the frames of art coordinated, back in the day. The digital age has sped things up dramatically.

10 12 09 Bearman Cartoon Marge Simpson Playboy courtesy of Openverse

The Present:
People still swear by cartoons to this day! Children especially appreciate a nice cartoon being on the up and up!

The Present:
Cartoons are on their way to permanence, way into the future. . .

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National Cartoonist Day