TRENDS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY CARTOONS

Abstract

The cartoons ‘without captions’ are different from cartoons with texts. Such cartoons originated in the thirties of the last century in the USA and France. There are changes in the semantic content of such cartoons and their visual incarnations in recent decades. The purpose of this article is to show these changes and to analyze their principles. New images and characters are appeared in the cartoons to replace absolution of something one. Methods for creating the comic effects have remained the same. Changes in the visual incarnations of cartoons occurred with the advent of personal computers. Simplified access to visual information on Internet allowed cartoonists to saturate their works with realistic details. Cartoonists began actively to use color with the advent of technical capabilities of the personal computers. There was a drift in the cartoons from graphics to painting. All of these served as a change in the semantic content of cartoons. The absurdity began to coexist with surrealism. The cartoons characterized by ‘humor of paradoxes’ in the twentieth century. Cartoons began to gravitate more to satire in the twenty-first century