The article is devoted to coverage of Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in American, German and Ukrainian political cartoons. Political cartoon is the subject of many different disciplines. From the linguistic point of view the political cartoon is a «сreolized text». («multimodal text» or «hybrid text»). The perception of creolized text is a double decoding of information: at the visual level (symbols, visual metaphors) and at the verbal level (captions, phrases of cartoon's characters).

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... double-decoding provides the integral perception of the cartoon. Political cartoon combines different cultural codes to implement cognitive and communicative purposes, using a minimum of verbal and non-verbal means. The discursive modus of the conflict was analyzed by using of quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis, frame analysis, metaphor analysis). This combination of methods provide objective and reliable research results.