The first cartoon is recorded to be published in the year 1896 in 'Life' magazine.
Primary Definition:- A cartoon is a sketch drawn with an aim to make the reader laugh. It hardly consists any serious thoughts.Gradually the definition began to be in detail-"A cartoon is a pictorial form of reality-based ideas and thoughts!" There has been no clear-cut definition of cartoons as no specific meaning can be guaged from the above definition also. Later on hardly anyone tried to define a cartoon.Logically thinking, one can deduce that cartoon is a kind of language! Maximum thoughts are conveyed from a given minimum matter is the principle of drawing cartoons and if this is successful then, great cartoons last for long! Thus in a nutshell, cartoon is a language which breaks through the barriers of any kind of language in the world and entertains the people in every way!