Just wondering if anyone knows! Why are Cartoons called Cartoons.?

Question

Been wondering for ages.

Answer 1

In its original meaning, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone, meaning "big paper") is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork, such as a painting or tapestry.

Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, paintings made onto wet plaster over a series of days. You had to use a paint made from egg and pigment (tempera) which was sucked into the wet plaster as it dried, but the plaster dried very fast, so each panel was only about a meter square.

to plan the whole design, the picture would be drawn in line only, a cartoon, and then the lines would have pinpricks where the outline of the design has been picked out in the plaster. this was done with carbon dust (charcoal dust) brushed through the pin pricks to leave feint dots on the wet plaster, to guide the painted lines.

Cartoons by painters such as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci are highly prized in their own right. The comic books of the 1920's, with the pictures drawn in a thick black line, looked like these old pictures, and were called cartoons.

The difference between a cartoon and animation, is that the latter has not got a thick edge to simplify the drawing, and is a series of little paintings.

Answer 2

We borrowed the word from French, some time before 1671. The French word carton, like the Italian cartone, from which it comes, means "pasteboard". How did carton become cartoon? Well, the English have always had trouble pronouncing French and appear particularly baffled by the -on ending. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, such endings were routinely mangled into -oon, giving us such words as bassoon, pantaloon and cartoon. Carton itself entered English in 1816 with the meaning "a pasteboard container".

It was the Italians who first used pasteboard for rough drawings, and they found it especially useful in preparing frescoes and tapestries. Some of the cartoons by old masters such as Raphael and Leonardo still survive. They are not at all funny, by the way. The word carton did not come to mean "an amusing sketch" until 1843.

Cartone is itself a form of carta, Italian for "a piece of paper". Ultimately this derives from the Greek chartes, meaning "a leaf of papyrus", by way of the Latin charta.

I took this from a site called Take Our Word For It at:
www.takeourword.com
They have different issues and this is the answer they gave to the question and I have found the same answer at other sites and in the book titles Who Put the Butter in Butterfly, the history of our illogical language, which is a great book when you have the time. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

In its original meaning, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone, meaning "big paper") is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork, such as a painting or tapestry.

Answer 4

Because previously they were drawn in cardboard boxes and cut, but now when audiovisual techniques improved they animated them on TV.

Answer 5

It comes from the word carta, (carta leaf of paper), of which is Italian.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon#Historical_meaning

Answer 7

david c and any1 else who answered this question have u got nothing better to do, if we could vote for the crapest question ud win hands down love

Answer 8

Because they are CARTOONS. Now you answer this question:
Why people are call people?

Answer 9

because trucktoons, mini vantoons, and motorcycletoons sounded really retarded.

Answer 10

i dunnooooo