A gag cartoon (aka panel cartoon or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a hand-lettered or typeset caption beneath the drawing. A pantomime cartoon carries no caption. In some cases, dialogue may appear in speech balloons, following the common convention of comic strips.

As the name implies- "gag" being a show business term for a comedic idea- these cartoons are most often intended to provoke laughter. Popular magazines that have featured gag cartoons include Punch, The New Yorker and Playboy. Some publications, such as Humorama, have used cartoons as the main focus of the magazine, rather than articles and fiction.^[1]

Gag cartoons of the 1930s and earlier occasionally had lengthy captions, sometimes featuring dialogue between two characters depicted in the drawing; over time, cartoon captions became shorter. For instance, a well-known 1928 cartoon in The New Yorker, drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White, shows a mother telling her daughter, "It's broccoli, dear." The daughter responds, "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it."^[2]

Contents 1 Notable gag cartoonists 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Notable gag cartoonists

• Charles Addams
• Peter Arno
• Virgil Partch (aka"VIP")
• George Price
• James Thurber
• Gahan Wilson

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Editorial cartoon
• List of cartoonists
• Yonkoma, a four-panel style found mostly in Japan

[edit] External links

• How to Make Funny Gags