Abstract

Many cartoons of artists from many countries around the world associated with the coronavirus pandemic have appeared in a short period of time. The purpose of this article is to analyze the semantic content and artistic level of such cartoons. Thus, cartoonists reacted unusually quickly and smoothly to the coronavirus pandemic. Many ‘pandemic’ cartoons were created by artists in just a few months. These cartoons reflected all the vicissitudes of the struggle of mankind with a pandemic from the first shock, pessimism, to preparedness for the fight and belief in victory. The cartoon art brilliantly fulfilled its social satirical duty to humanity. However, coronavirus was a serious test not only for humanity, but also for the art of cartoon. A coronavirus pandemic swept the inquisitive minds of artists around the world. ЃePandemicЃf drawings sharply reflected the crisis, which is increasingly manifested in the art of cartoon in recent years. This crisis was identified by the appearance of many cartoon clones, similar in their messages to the audience and similar visually. Coronavirus, this spherical object with short processes, has become a very attractive way to create typical cartoons. Well-known techniques for creating comic effects in ironic graphics are easily traced in the ЃepandemicЃf cartoons. The art of cartoon fulfilled its social role expressed in responding to the coronavirus pandemic by means of humor and satire. Cartoonists embraced almost all stereotypical images with their ЃecoronavirusЃf creativity. The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the crisis inherent the art of cartoon in recent decades, like by x-rays which cartoonists managed to ridicule at after their discovery. Cartoonists around the world created similar cartoons, not really caring about heuristic. Therefore, we see so many works repeating each other. As we see, cartoons are becoming more ЃelightЃf, superficial. The cartoons created in the early period of the appearance of coronavirus had a panic character, were saturated with black humor. However, then the artists began to urge humanity to fight the pandemic through cartoons, thereby fulfilling their humanistic mission in their messages. And at the same time, ЃepandemicЃf cartoons showed that there was practically no heuristic in the works by witty artist in most cases, they were mainly built on the expected stereotypical images.