A professional who draws cartoons for publications to amuse readers and interpret or illustrate news highlights, advertising, stories, or articles. Responsibilities include:

• Develops personal ideas or reads written material to develop ideas from context.
• Discusses ideas with editor or publisher's representative or sketches cartoon drawing and submits drawing for approval.
• Makes changes and corrections as necessary and finishes drawing.
• May develop and draw comic strips.
• May be designated according to type of cartoons drawn as Editorial Cartoonist; Sports Cartoonist.