Definition: Works portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)
this heading is used as a Publication Type. Used by catalogers only; caricatures as a subject are indexed under main heading CARICATURES AS TOPIC; Publication Type CARTOONS is also available
