User blog comment:Drakan95/Inside Out vs Sigmund Freud. Epic Rap Battles: Cartoons vs History. Season 1 Finale/@comment-24322797-20151019171427/@comment-4920659-20151020132618

Drak's series has only used animated cartoons, but not cartoons found in comic strips. The definition of a cartoon as defined by Google is "a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine." That means caricatures would be counted as them. The second definition is "a motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects," which is the one we associate with the cartoon sides used here. Basically, Bill Watterson is a cartoonist but Stan Lee isn't because comic books aren't known for satire like most cartoons, whereas comic strips are.

Even if several superhero comics have been adapted into a cartoon, very few have become just as big as the original comics, and they are usually overshadowed by film adaptations. Comic strips having their own animated show are nearly always a big step for them. For this reason, you can say Calvin and Hobbes are cartoons, but not animated ones, which would be up to Drak to decide if they ought to have a battle.

If they're not counted as such, you can do Calvin and Hobbes vs Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. :3