The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 24, 2022

The good news? Home prices are dropping. Unfortunately, interest rates continue to climb as the Federal Reserve fights to slow down inflation.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week revolve around the high prices we’re all continuing to pay. Dave Whamond’s funny Monty Python riff on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was also popular with editors.

The number eight cartoon about the “Fall Equinox” is a correction of our number one cartoon from last week. Cartoonist Guy Parsons wrote the cartoon about the “Fall Solstice” and, of course, there is no such thing. A group of school children wrote to Guy about the error, and Guy made this corrected cartoon, which was also widely published. No adults complained about the “Fall Solstice” — just kids.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#4. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#5. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#6. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#7. John Cole, Cagle.com

#8. John Cole, Cagle.com

#9. Guy Parsons, Cagle.com

#10. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – September 5, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 5, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (August 29th through September 5th, 2020). As usual, no drawings of president Trump were among the most popular with newspaper editors. Seven of the cartoons are light, life during the pandemic cartoons. Three are “back to school during the pandemic” cartoons, which is still the most popular topic with editors.

Rick McKee runs away with the week, claiming the #1, #4 and #10 spots! I’m impressed! Dave Granlund also had a great week taking #2 and #7. Congrats to Rick and Dave!

Kudos to the other cartoonists who made the Top Ten most reprinted list this week, Kevin Siers, Ed Wexler, Dave Whamond, Bruce Plante, and Jeff Koterba.

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 62 cartoonists in our CagleCartoons.com syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you! Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, so do editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers, and along with them, our Cagle.com site, that our small, sinking syndicate largely supports, along with our fans.

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#1

Rick McKee dominated the week with this very popular #1 cartoon, along with two more in the Top Ten.

#2

This second place cartoon by Dave Granlund also stood out from the pack with well more reprints than the rest. Dave has two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#3

Kevin Siers takes 3rd place with a “back to school” during the pandemic cartoon, a topic that remains the most popular with newspaper editors.

#4

Rick McKee also takes 4th place, with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#5

Ed Wexler takes 5th place – editors crave “everyday life during the pandemic” cartoons.

#6

Dave Whamond takes 6th place with a “back to school during the pandemic” cartoon.

#7

Dave Granlund nabs 7th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Bruce Plante takes 8th place with a “back to school during the pandemic” cartoon.

#9

Jeff Koterba is tied for 9th place.

#9

Rick McKee shares a tie for 9th place, rounding out the Top Ten with his third cartoon. Quite a week for Rick!

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Tags back to school, burning cities, college, COVID-19, COVID19, Democrats, digital divide, education, election meddling, facebook, Labor Day, nancy pelosi, pandemic, remote learning, Russia, vote tampering

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College Admissions Scandal

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 14, 2019

The college admissions scandal not only skewers celebrities, but it brings up the money driven procedures at colleges that are unfair even if they are not illegal. Here’s my cartoon about average student, Jared Kushner’s admission to Harvard, alongs with some of the first scandal cartoons that came in to Cagle.com today.

This one is by Jimmy Margulies from amNewYork …

This is by Rick McKee of the Augusta Chronicle …

This is by Milt Priggee …

This one, by Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is my favorite …

This one is by Chris Weyant …

This is by Nate Beeler of the Columbus Dispatch …

Tags ACT, asmissions, athletics, bribe, Charles Kushner, coaches, college, colleges, FBI, Felicity Huffman, fraud, harvard, Jarad Kushner, Lori Loughlin, Operation varsity Blues, SAT, scam, scandal, sting, testing, universities, yale

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TRUE Crazy Stuff 2!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 3, 2018

Here’s another batch of my TRUE syndicated newspaper cartoons from 1995. I’m culling out the cartoons that are not too stale to include in our PoliticalCartoons.com database and making little changes so that don’t seem too dated; sometimes that is hard and I have to delete some of my favorite oldies. I’m letting quite a few old style TVs and land line phones sneak through.

I suppose it is more interesting that so little has changed.

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TRUE Kids!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 25, 2018

Here’s another batch of TRUE cartoons about KIDS!

Tags adult children, alchohol, are we there yet, atlas, baby, Baby Ruth, beer, binge drinkers, book, booze, breakfast, bubble gum, candy bar, car, carbohydrate, cereal, cheerleader, children, cigarettes, classroom, clean our plates, college, company, computer, cool, criminals, Dad, desk, desktop, diet, dinner, discipline, dog, Donkey, drug dealer, drugs, earphones, eat, eavesdrop, eavesdropping, education, exercise, expelled, family, family trip, fat, Flordia, food, freshman, Froot Loops, Fruit, furniture, future, geography, girls, graduation, gun, hard liquor, health, high school, illiteracy, injured, injury, Internet, jail, kid, kids, literacy, live at home, love, map, maps, marijuana, meal, medicine, men at home, minutes, missed class, morterboard, Mother, music, nutrition, obese, paddled, parents, party school, peek, pin the tail on the donkey, plates, porch, prison uniform, punishment, punk, pusher, read, school, son, spanked, spanking, students, sugar, supper, suspended, team, teen, teens, Toucan, travel, trip, true, United States, unplanned sex, violence, window, world, young adults

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TRUE Health Statistics 1!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 21, 2018

Here’s batch of my TRUE! cartoons, on the subject of Health Statistics!

Tags 1960, absorb, airline, airplane, attention, average american, bad breath, bicycle, Big Future Man, Bike helmet, binge, bowl, breakfast, calculation, can, car, Carnegie Library, cereal, chance, child, children, childres, chips, cigar, coca cola, Coke, college, coma, crash, crowd, daughters, Dentists, diet, Diet Dumb, dieting, dunce, earth, eat, eating, education, exercise, expensive, family, fat, financial, Fish, flowers, fruits, George Jetson, giant, Godzilla, graduate, halitosis, Hanna Barbera, ice cream, jet, Jetsons, kid, kids, lotto.California, math, memory, mental, mind, money, morterboard, mouth, necessary, obese, overpopulation, patient, perception, population, react, Readers Digest, reasons, remember, risk, Saturday, soda, sons, stink, sugar, Super Lotto, support, teeth, television, traffic, true, unattractive, uncomfortable, USDA, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, weight, winner, women, world, world almanac, yippee

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I Drew a PRO-Trump Cartoon

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 3, 2016

We get complaints from readers because we don’t post pro-Trump cartoons. We don’t post pro-Hillary cartoons either. We just don’t get any pro-Trump and pro-Hillary cartoons. Cartoons in favor of something are lousy cartoons. Editorial cartooning is a negative art form.

That said, today I drew a PRO-Trump cartoon! It strikes me that the accusations about Trump University are no different than the accusations against hundreds of for-profit colleges – especially art colleges that accept any talentless applicants who will pay, even though they know the students won’t be making livings as artists. Reputable institutions drive students into a lifetime of debt as students often graduate with no marketable skills. I don’t see Trump University as any worse than the rest.

I’m sorry that it is so wordy! I’ll be more terse next time. Watch me draw this one in the video below!

Watch me color the cartoon in the next video …

Tags 2016 presidential race, Best Political Cartoons, coffee, college, donald trump, donald trump 2016, education, election 2016, GOP, newspaper, republican, school, StudentLoans, trump media, Trump University

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Tennessee Bathroom Bill?

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 21, 2016

Here’s my new Tennessee flag, commemorating the legislature’s top priority, a prospective special session to regulate transgender access to bathrooms.

The Tennessee legislature is all in a lather to hold a special session to make a bathroom bill much like North Carolina’s infamous bathroom bill. Read about it here in my local newspaper, the Tennessean.

What conservative Republicans have in common is an insatiable passion for regulating all things sexual. That’s the Tennessee flag at the right. The story behind the flag is fascinating. In the 1800’s Tennessee hired a graphic designer to make a new flag. The three stars in the center stand for Western, Middle and Eastern Tennessee. The stripe at the right means nothing – the designer just thought it made the flag look better. Gotta love history.

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Answering a College Student’s Questions About Cartoons

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 28, 2016

Sometimes I get emails from college students who are studying editorial cartoons; they often ask the same questions so I thought I would post this recent response I wrote to a student.

Hi James,

Your friends who think editorial cartoons are a dying art form should be told that editorial cartoons are more important around the world than ever before, and with the internet we have a far larger audience than our predecessors who were limited to print.

1. How many hours of research go into each of your cartoons?

Sometimes I’ll look for photo reference for the art, which doesn’t take long. You can see the whole process in real time by looking at my videos on DarylCagle.com. I live-stream on Twitch when I draw each cartoon now. Each cartoon takes about six hours.

2. How much time do you spend reviewing the news everyday?

I usually read two or three newspapers a day and watch cable TV news. Probably three hours a day. I wouldn’t call this “research” and it isn’t related to a particular cartoon.

3. What are two things that make you different from other cartoonists?

The biggest difference for me is that I have more freedom than most cartoonists. I own and run my syndicate (CagleCartoons.com, PoliticalCartoons.com, CagleWorld.com) so I don’t have an editor or a publication of record. My cartoons are distributed to about 850 subscribing newspapers, including about half of America’s daily paid-circulation newspapers. I don’t have to draw on the topic of the day as most cartoonist do, and I can maintain an irregular schedule, drawing on topics when a cartoon is needed. I don’t have to draw about the weather and celebrity obituaries as I did when I had an editor. The two differences: more freedom, no editor.

4. Who is your favorite person to portray?

Right now both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are gifts to cartoonists.

5. What experiences do you gain in traveling and how does traveling affect your work?

Editorial cartoons are much more important and more highly regarded internationally than they are in America. I am inspired by my brave colleagues around the world and it is great fun to meet them – especially those who put themselves at risk with their cartoons. In most of the world a cartoonist can’t draw the president of his own country or he’ll be fired, sued, beaten, jailed or killed. Friends of mine have been jailed by their governments and murdered by terrorists because of their cartoons. I enjoy the best press freedoms in the world in America. I have it easy – I only get attacked by hackers.

6. If you could give one piece of advice to someone looking at a career as a political cartoonist what would it be?

It is the same advice I would give to any aspiring, young journalist. Newsroom jobs are in decline. New journalists and cartoonists need to create a place where their work is seen by a loyal audience on the Web; they need to develop a reason why their voice is important for their audience. Journalists have to be entrepreneurs now. The days of getting a job at a newspaper and having a big publisher take care of your career are gone. There are more opportunities now, and it is simplistic to look at the decline in employee jobs as a decline for the cartooning profession. It is a big, exciting new world out there.

I have more freedom and a much bigger audience now that I have not been working for a newspaper for over sixteen years. There is no single path for everyone, as there was in the days when making a career meant applying for a job at a newspaper.

About your project … Think of editorial cartoonists as columnists who speak with images. We rarely see students analyzing columns because it is assumed that the columnist has clearly said what he meant to say. Cartoonists depend on their readers already knowing the news. Unlike columnists, we don’t convey facts; we convey simple, visual arguments. People cut the cartoons out to stick them on their fridge; they don’t do that with columns. Images are more powerful than words.

Cartoons are often analyzed by students because cartoons are on state mandated, AP Social Studies tests in 8th and 11th grade, in all 50 states, and teachers “teach to the test.” High school kids typically don’t think much about the news and often don’t have the background to understand what political cartoonists are drawing about. Cartoonists strive to make their points clearly, so the idea of editorial cartoons as puzzles that need to be solved and need an explanation or analysis is disappointing. If a cartoon needs to be explained, it is a poor cartoon or, more often, the reader is not well informed.

Good luck with your project!

Best,

Daryl

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Dr. Ben Carson is NOT a Liar!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 11, 2015

I think Dr. Ben Carson is NOT a liar. Now, given that, I need to decide if that is a good thing.

carson-on-cagle People always say, “Daryl, with this presidential election you must be having so much fun! And you must be soon busy!” Actually, newspapers don’t use any more editorial cartoon when times are fun, so it never gets busier. And having the campaign dominate the news for a year doesn’t make a cartoonist’s life more fun. A little variety adds spice.
But, Ben Carson is fun. We have a wonderful and growing collection of Ben Carson cartoons on Cagle.com Come take a look! My talented buddy Taylor Jones drew that Carson in our promo.

Here are a couple of my recent favorites, this first one is by my buddy, Jeff Koterba of the Omaha World-Herald:

This one is by the brilliant Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer:

This strange one from Randall Enos made me laugh out loud – it is a linoleum block print that Randy carves with a knife, inks and prints on paper, then scans, showing Jesus carrying a sleeping Carson at the head of the presidential race – I think that says it all.