1. cartoon - Noun
2. cartoon - Verb
A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. Walt Disney
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that? Brendan Fraser
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. Craig McCracken
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. Dan Castellaneta
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept. Gil Gerard
You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero. Tom Berenger