Funny Cartoons, Animated Cartoons

Funny cartoons online are now being taken to a new level of entertainment with computer graphics and videos. A cartoonist using Flash or similar cartoon software can create extraordinary exaggerated human forms in 3D, these are animated cartoons. There is a software product called Goo where you can drop in a picture of your friend and manipulate the pixels with hilarious results...and guess what? Your friends never seem to be too pleased with the result!

So what kind of cartoons make people laugh out loud? The everyday cartoons you see in the newspaper can be funny but they will not get you rolling on the floor. Most folk like to see people in a funny predicament, falling down, caught in an embarrassing situation, a jab at a politician (like Jib-Jab), or just plain craziness.

Online funny cartoons have been around for a long time and are gaining in popularity. Recent cartoons of “Parrot-Palin” and similar clips of politicians show the funny side of people even though they are greatly exaggerated. The Wallace and Gromit animated cartoon was quite a favorite a few years back but has been succeeded by Robot Chicken, “1776” (part of the American Revolution) and similar ‘cult’ cartoon sketches using ‘green screen technology.’

Have you noticed how there is an abundance of political cartoons in the daily and weekly newspapers as this is an election year? Most political newspaper cartoonists make fun of politicians in a satirical way and these are called ‘gags’. Do you know of any cartoon character that has campaigned for a political office? State or Federal Government? Wouldn’t that be a hoot? Think of one, add a little spice and half merge with a current politician and we’ll have a winner. Think of a peanut, think of a peanut farmer—morph the two and what do you come up with?

Cartoons are simply sketches giving you, the viewer, funny ideas about a person or thing. This funny stuff takes our minds off everyday things and we momentarily go into the world of fantasy as we poke fun at ourselves and others—especially politicians.

So take a peek below at some of the links here to see if you can spot any of your favorite politicians or other famous or infamous persons. And if you like to try your hand at some very basic cartooning, there is a page here on how to do it. It is very simple and you’ll have fun doing it.

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