Glocal Art of Lampoon

As a medium of portraying the everyday cultural and social happenings in the society, cartoons serve as a subtle and satiric critique of the same. Even though a cartoon is peppered and sauced with the elements of laughter and lampoon, it functions as a chronicle of any social system that it belongs to. The academic significance of cartoons, apart from the popular entertainment value attributed to them, has been globally recognized and explored by theoreticians and scholars. Cartoons have for long been held as a concave mirror to the contemporary society used for cultural or social commentary, and the situation is no different in Keralam. The study of cartoons can be employed to critique the cultural forces and discourses existing in a period of time. The origin and history of world cartoons and the major cartoonists in the evolution of this genre are detailed in the study.