cartooning

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act or practice of drawing cartoons and caricatures.

   Years of cartooning had given her a quick, confident line.

   The magazine is famous for sharp political cartooning.

   Similarcaricature

   Note

   Like painting or drawing, it is a mass noun for the craft as a whole: years of cartooning, political cartooning, a career in cartooning. A plural, cartoonings, does exist, but it is unusual. It counts separate acts of the work rather than the drawings themselves, which are simply cartoons.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of cartoon.

   The artist is cartooning a fresh batch of strips for Sunday's paper.

   By cartooning the candidates, the paper drew complaints from city hall.

   Note

   The verb behind this form keeps both of its jobs: drawing a humorous cartoon, and making a preliminary sketch. As a gerund it still behaves like a verb and takes a direct object, as in by cartooning the candidates. The name for the craft works differently. It takes adjectives and of instead: sharp political cartooning, the cartooning of politicians.

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