THE EVOLUTION OF CARTOON Today we most frequently use cartoon to mean "a humorous heading" "comic strip"or "animated film or TV show" but its origins in English begin with fine arts: cartoon first designated "a design,drawing or painting made by an artist as a model for the finished work. Cartoon first designated " a design,a drawing or painting made by an artist as a model for the finished work." The use of cartoon to mean"a humorous drawing" began in the 1800s. So cartoon began in Italian as the word for the material on which a drawing is made, then became the word for the drawing itself. Next it came to mean a comic drawing, a series of drawings, or animation. Most animated television shows from the 1950s to 1980s used limited animation techniques. Animated television shows are created for the medium that people are watching them on. Simon says tha...