Word: cartoonishly
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...than oversell the absurdity of the scene, he lets it unfurl without commentary. Clichéd declarations like “No Blood For Oil,” “Bush Lied and People Died,” etc., are mercifully absent from the film. By avoiding these cartoonish histrionics, Jarecki distinguishes himself from the likes of Michael Moore—to whom he is often unfairly compared...
...ones focused on monuments to the "Dear Leader." Though it lacks the deep cultural penetration of some other memoirs, like Marjane Satrapri's Persepolis series and Joe Sacco's Balkan War books, Pyongyang provides a cartoon corrective to a place that too often gets characterized in "cartoonish" ways. From Ming to Kim 9/23/2005
...attend the ceremony, of course, although his specter will loom large: Almost 27 years after the death of troubled bass player Sid Vicious (initially recruited to replace songwriter Matlock, allegedly booted for being a fan of the Beatles), the image of the lanky youth notorious for his cartoonish depravity, drug-abuse and violence, which became the sartorial prototype for punk rock, still dwarfs the band's actual accomplishments...
...Branded has several broad brushes, a bucket of the watery adhesive called wheat paste and a stack of his trademark cartoonish bunny posters. His first target is a utility box on La Brea. With a friend stationed nearby to watch for police, Branded, 30, brushes a layer of paste on the box and slaps up the poster. Then he whips open his cell phone, snaps a picture and e-mails the shot to flickr.com a photo website on which artists post their work...
...animator and graphic novelist with a few other books behind him (all in French, including another travelogue, Shenzhen, about his time in China) Delisle's drawings have a lively cartoonish quality and an elegant, easy-to-read design. The black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup...