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To me, the classical cartoon is black and white and without captions. In most cases, colour will not add anything to the gag.

You are probably right if the sketch is simply a gag cartoon, New Yorker or editorial page stuff. But a sketch can have as its purpose being humourous, indeed funny, and yet carry with it different layers, and suggestiveness. The drawing can communicate other secondary thoughts. Colour is very instrumental in doing this. You may say that I am simply defining a cartoon differently. We are dealing with humour, and colour can add a great deal. I look forward to your further comments but if you don'et mind visit cgill first. Chris

And also colours can have symbolic meanings,
that allows more ideas and possible interpretations.
Without color there is more restriction.
But maybe you mean using color from the paint top
without intention, just draws off the attention from the gag.
I think it depends on the case - most of the cartoons would
look without "make up" boring... ;-)

I am fan of both, black and white as well as color. It would be joyless to me just to
see black and white cartoons. color can be very powerful, you can
emphasise things very well and have more options to give your cartoon
the character you want and thus contributing to the whole style and
at it´s best, even to the humour. as long as it´s not distracting or ruining
the "gag" I don´t see any disadvantages. just my 2 cents :)

Beside the color aspect...

Its going in that "philosophy-direction".. everything not important should be missed out.
embroidery, ornaments, color... unimportant strokes .. etc etc...

On the other hand there is the danger that styles drift into similiarity, easier to see through and easier to imitate

I like old cartoons, in black and white, drawn with pen and ink... nostalgic cartoons :)
However, for websites I think it's better coloured cartoons.

i love Extreme Exaggerative line forming cartoons (Cartoons that Have Enourmous stretched amounts of exaggeration)

I like triangular cartoons. :)