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I collect old cartoon books. This one's called "Cartoon Cavalcade". It's edited by Thomas Craven, 1943. It traces American cartoons back to its roots and features a wide variety of styles, from comic strips to magazine cartoons and even animation. There was a much greater variety of cartoon styles in the first half of the 20th century than there is today or even that there was in animation in its whole history.
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These are just a handful of cartoons from the 20s that influenced the "UPA Style".
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Even though cartoons had a huge variety of individual styles, most people agreed they had one thing in common - the thing that made them cartoons, as opposed to illustrations:
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More to come...