In today’s parlance, cartoons are drawings—still or animated—that simplify or exaggerate its subject’s features for comedic effect. Named from the Italian word, “caricare,” to load or exaggerate, a cartoon caricature was originally a preparatory drawing used by Old Masters, such as Leonardo, Raphael and Benini, to emphasize the most notable features of a subject. Today’s notion of a comic strip, however, began with modern print media in the mid-nineteenth, when magazines would circulate politically and socially satirical drawings of hyperbolized characters in the form of a single panel underscored by a caption. Many of these cartoonists were influenced by Social Realists that came before like, Francisco de Goya and Honoré Daumier, who criticized the bourgeoisie in their works. The advent of sound cartoons in 1928 ushered in the golden age of American animation pioneered by Disney’s feature length fairy tales starring anthropomorphized animals. This period coincided with the rise of printed superhero comicbooks such as DC Comics and Marvel Comics. These would become fodder for the Pop artists of the 1960s, such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol , who appropriated others’ cartoons and advertisements as ready mades. In today’s contemporary art, cartoons run the gamut from the illustrated soft porn of R. Crumb, to the wild manga of Takashi Murakami, to the painted cartoon mashups of Jamian Juliano-Villani .