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cartoon

illustration telling a comic or satirical story in a single image
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Summary

cartoon is a two-dimensional visual artwork genre[1]. cartoon draws 5,417 Wikipedia views per month (two dimensional visual artwork genre category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: drawing[3], work of art[4], graphic humour[5]
  • Commons category: Cartoons[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cartooning[7]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8]
  • Partially coincident with: caricature[9], line art[10]
  • Has characteristic: cartoon award[11]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Cartoon[12]
  • Different from: caricature[13]
  • Practiced by: gag cartoonist[14], cartoonist[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16], concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[17]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/cartoon[18]
  • Related category: Category:Cartoon awards[19]

Why It Matters

cartoon has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] cartoon is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science. wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX532053
    Sitelink count → 71
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'bew', 'bjn', 'bn', 'bo', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cy', 'd
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX532053"
  2. 10w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Subclass of: drawing"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007283468405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  4. 23w ago · Chaduvari · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Cartooning
    Subclass of → drawing, work of art, graphic humour
    Instance of → two-dimensional visual artwork genre
    Local thumb → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q16314477 */"
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