Researchers have also explored how humor is created conveyed in various cartoons. Tsakona (2009), analyzinges a number of political cartoons appearing in Greek newspapers, in order to determine how humor is created. She argueds that the humor in a cartoon can only be understood through boths is not easily expressed and visual and verbal elements such as visual and verbal ones (written in Greek) are necessary to explain cartoons. She uses different approaches for the purpose ofThe analysis including made use of various frameworks, including a tTheory of vVerbal hHumor, and cand cognitive and semiotic approaches. She Tsakona points out that the creation of humor in cartoons is built not only through verbal and visual means to be taken literally but as well as culturally familiar rhetorical devices as well like (e.g., exaggeration, metaphor, etc.).

Other researchers studies also have also study examined the devices that employed in creating humor. accompanied with the persuasive structure of cartoons.