Who invented Cartoons?

You know that between the way something started years ago, and the way it is today, there may be quite a difference! There is no better example of this than the cartoon.
The word "cartoon" was originally used by painters during the period of the Italian Renaissance. And in fact, it is still used today by artists. What they are referring to, however, is the first sketch in actual size of any work of art which covers a large area, such as a mural, a tapestry, or a stained-glass window.
When newspapers and magazines began to use drawings to illustrate news and editorial opinion and to provide amusement, these drawings also came to be called "cartoons"!
In the days before newspapers, famous caricaturists like Hogarth, Goya, Daumier, and Rowlandson made series of drawings on a single theme. These drawings often pictured the adventures of one character. They were the ancestors of present-day cartoons and comic strips.In the 19th and early 20th century there were a number of magazines which specialized in cartoons- Charivari in Paris, Punch in London, and Life and Judge in the United States. When most newspapers and magazines in the United States began to include cartoons as regular features, the humorous magazines lost their appeal and many of them stopped appearing.
The first comic strips appeared in the early 1900's. Richard Outcault, the artist who created Buster Brown, published this comic strip in 1902. It was so popular that children all over the country wanted to dress in "Buster Brown" clothes.
Another of the early comic strips was Bringing Up Father. This came out in 1912. It has since been translated into 27 different languages, and published in 71 countries!