So far, we've seen how the cartoon can represent something in reality that it doesn't necessarily look all that much like, simply by using icons for the aspects of that thing which are most important to their meaning. However, anyone who has read a comic knows there is more to meaning than tow dots signifying eyes and a line meaning a mouth.
Cartoons also possess personality, traits and attitudes.
The most obvious way is through depicting characters a certain way repeatedly. The words the character uses and the way they interact with their environment play important roles in creating a characters' personality. Through these aspects, repeat readers of a comic learn about the characters as if they were characters on their favorite TV show or even the readers' friends. Through this narrowest code, they have exclusive knowledge on the subject matter of the cartoon, as well as the personalities of each character. For us, the identities of the characters in Fox Trot are assigned differently.