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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – July 31st, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  July 31st, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who took the the #1 spot!  And congrats to Dave Whamond who was close behind at #2!

And kudos to the other CagleCartoonists who drew the cartoons that were most popular with editors this week: Kevin Siers, Dick Wright, Monte Wolverton, John Cole, Daryl Cagle, Pat Bagley and Randy Enos!

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

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#1

Jeff Koterba’s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

 

#2

Dave Whamond who draw the comic Reality Check, places second!

#3

Jeff Koterba, who drew for decades for The Omaha World-Herald, takes third place.

#4

John Cole claims fourth place, He draws for The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania..

#5

Dick Wright takes the five spot. Dick was a starf cartoonist for lots of papers in his long career, including The Columbus Dispatch and The San Diego Union.

#6

Kevin Siers takes sixth place. He is the cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer.

#7

Randall Enos nabs seventh place.  Randy is a famous illustrator, and he drew Chicken Guts in The National Lampoon.

#8

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) takes eighth place.

#9

Monte Wolverton takes ninth place.

#10

Pat Bagley who draws for The Salt Lake Tribune, is in tenth place.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – July 24, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  July 24th, 2021. Congratulations to Bob Englehart who took the the #1 spot!  And congrats to Chris Weyant who nabbed #2!

And kudos to the other CagleCartoonists who drew the cartoons that were most popular with editors this week: Steve Sack, Dave Whamond, Dave Granlund, John Darkow, Rick McKee, Monte Wolverton, John Cole and Jeff Koterba!

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

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, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

#1

Bob Englehart‘s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

 

#2

New Yorker cartoonist, Chris Weyant takes second place!

#3

Steve Sack from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wins third place.

#4

Jeff Koterba claims fourth place, after dominating the Top Ten in recent weeks.

 

#5

Dave Whamond takes the five spot. Dave also draws the syndicated strip Reality Check.

#6

Rick McKee takes sixth place. Rick also draws the syndicated strip, “Mount Pleasant“.

#7

Monte Wolverton nabs seventh place.  Monte is the son of Basil Wolverton, who was one of the original gang of idiots at Mad Magazine. Monte has also done a bunch of work for Mad Magazine.

#8

John Darkow from the Columbia Missourian takes eighth place.

#9

Dave Granlund who draws for Gannett, takes ninth place.

#10

John Cole who draws for the Scranton Times-Tribune, is in tenth place.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – July 4, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (June 27 through July 4, 2020). As usual, no drawings of President Trump are among the most reprinted cartoons.  We had no Most Popular list last week, and no list for the month of June, because we had a technical glitch, losing client download data for three days. Sorry about that. But the stats are working this week!

Editors always love cartoons about holidays and anniversaries – that is clear to see this week as five Fourth of July cartoons made the list. This week was unusual because the steep curve we usually see between the few cartoons editors like and all the other cartoons was flattened, so the most popular cartoons were less popular than usual, and the less popular cartoons were more popular than usual. Cartoons number 11 through 30 aren’t so far behind numbers 1 through 10. Perhaps because the curve flattened and the Top Ten is more tightly bunched this week, we have more ties. So … good job everyone! Everybody getting more reprints is what I like to see!

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

Congratulations to Dave Granlund for drawing the most reprinted cartoon this week! Kudos to Jeff Koterba for placing an impressive THREE cartoons in the Top Ten and to Milt Priggee with TWO of the most reprinted cartoons on the list! And congratulations to the rest of the cartoonists who drew the most reprinted cartoons this week: Steve Sack, John Darkow, Bruce Plante and Nate Beeler.  Great work, gentlemen!

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#1

Congratulations to Dave Granlund who drew the #1 most reprinted cartoon this week.

 

#2

Jeff Koterba was a very close second with this cartoon.

 

#3

Bruce Plante takes third place.

 

#4

Steve Sack is in 4th place.

#5

We have a three way tie for 5th place, here’s  Milt Priggee.

#5

Jeff Koterba also takes the 5th place spot.

 

#5

Milt Priggee has a second cartoon that is tied for 5th place.

 

#8

John Darkow is tied for 8th place.

 

#8

Jeff Koterba is also tied for 8th place with his impressive THIRD cartoon in the Top Ten this week.

#10

Nate Beeler rounds out the list in 10th.

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Triple Putz

With all the talk of “landing the triple lutz” at the olympics, it occurred to me that Trump is a “triple putz”.

I thought “putz” was Yiddish slang for “penis” with the meaning of “jerk” but according to the Google dictionary:

putz
ˌpəts,ˌpo͝ots/
NORTH AMERICAN informal
noun
  1. 1.
    a stupid or worthless person.
  1. engage in inconsequential or unproductive activity.
    “too much putzing around up there would ruin them”

That definition is not quite what I meant. I told our Cagle cartoonists that we weren’t going to accept penis gags any more. That was quite a difficult edict to enforce – I’m even violating it with this triple putz. Putzes win, I guess.

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Cagle’s 2016 Year in Review

Here’s my year in review! The year started off with Donald Trump knocking off his opponents one by one, in a big Republican field.


Trump attacked his fiercest rival, Ted Cruz, for being born in Canada, arguing that he was not “native born” and constitutionally ineligible to be president.

Trump had a famous, short-lived feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, which led him to boycott a presidential debate that was sponsored by Fox News. Trump’s absence seemed to amount to a victory for him.

Bernie Sanders started out strong and threatened to steal the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton.

The Democratic establishment couldn’t grasp why young women voters rejected Hillary and flocked to Bernie.

Bernie hung on until the end – Hillary just couldn’t put him away.

Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died, and the Republicans would not allow a vote for Obama’s nominee for nine months, in the hope that a Republican would win the election.

The terrible Zika virus spread north from South America.


Ted Cruz and John Kasich tried teaming up for a last ditch effort to derail Trump. It didn’t work.

Trump won the Republican party nomination for president – a concept that many Republicans found difficult to accept.

Trump’s fashion model wife, Melania, gave a speech at the GOP convention that seemed to match a speech by Michelle Obama.

Trump attacked a Muslim “Gold Star Family” that spoke against him at the Democratic Convention.

The media was obsessed with Trump, giving him lots of costly air time – but after he won the GOP nomination, the media turned on Trump and Trump’s support surprised all of the pundits.

Many Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to support their new nominee.

The Party of Lincoln was horrified.

“Pay to Play” allegations about the Clinton Foundation stung Hillary.

In other news, Civil War freedom fighter Harriet Tubman was selected to grace the $20.00 bill, kicking slave plantation owner Andrew Jackson off.

Great Britain voted for “Brexit” – an exit from the European Union.

Highly publicized, and unjustifiable police shootings led to attacks on police and nationwide demonstrations.

Greedy drug companies raised priced and screwed customers.

The Summer Olympics were dominated by news of the success of the American swim team, and then by news of the American swimmers vandalizing a bathroom and lying about it.

The Trump vs. Clinton campaign was possible the ugliest presidential contest ever.

Trump made a surprise visit to meet the president of Mexico – to the horror of Mexicans.

Trump seemed to be fond of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as the Russians hacked the Democratic party boosting Trumps campaign by releasing embarrassing emails through their proxy, Wikileaks.

The race was tight, focusing on swing-states.

Hate groups endorsed Trump – and I heard from many of them by e-mail.

Trump accused Hillary of being too sick to be president.

The presidential debates drew the biggest audiences ever.

“Access Hollywood” recordings of Trump bragging about sexual assaults dominated the headlines.

Trump claimed that the election was “rigged” against him, suggesting that he wouldn’t “accept” the election results if Hillary were to win.

Days before the election, FBI Director James Comey reopened the e-mail investigation of Hillary, an event that Hillary’s supporters believe cost her the election.

Trump won!

Half the nation was shocked.

The election was a Democrat apocalypse.

Trump’s transition was just as crazy as his campaign, with untraditional cabinet picks of generals and billionaires who seem to defy his promise to “drain the swamp.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Our Proud Olympic Swimmers

I remember the jocks back in high school were a bunch of arrogant jerks, so the behavior of the American Olympic swimmers is no surprise to me. No one should look to self-entitled athletes as representative of their countries, unless we look to them as representative of the biggest jerks in their countries.

The epidemic of bad behavior among athletes is on ugly display in sex scandals at colleges across the USA, which led yesterday to the interesting resignation of Ken Starr, the former president of Baylor University where he oversaw a coverup of Baylor’s football players’ sexual assaults. Remember Ken Starr? He was the sanctimonious independent prosecutor in charge of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to bring down Bill Clinton in the 1990’s. What goes around comes around, huh? Irony is a bitch.

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Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and a security guard. (Notice how the swimmers naturally seek out the water.)

My cartoon is based on early news reports that described the drunken athletes breaking a door at a gas station where they stopped to go to the bathroom. More recent reports describe the swimmers peeing on the gas station building because it had no bathroom, with Lochte tearing a framed advertisement off of the building’s wall rather than breaking a door. I suppose my cartoon could be criticized as “inaccurate” but I still think it captures the gist of the event.

This swimmers scandal has stolen the oxygen from the rest of the Olympics and it has given American cartoonists a welcome respite from our toxic presidential campaign. Here are a couple of my favorite swimmer-jerk cartoons:

This one is by Sean Delonas, the long-time cartoonist for The New York Post who has started up drawing again for Cagle Cartoons. The chickens make me laugh.

 

This Steve Sack “dope” cartoon sums it all up.

 

Sometime I think that, if not for Pinocchio, there would only be half as many editorial cartoons. This one is by Dave Granlund.

Watch me draw my cartoon in real time on YouTube below!

 

Now, watch me color the cartoon on Photoshop!

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Mitt Romney, Taxes and the Olympics

I’m sad to see the Olympics end. They offer so many great opportunities for cartoonists, especially when an election is occurring…

Too bad dogs weren’t allowed at the Olympics. Romney brought his horse, and Obama could have entered his small-bladdered attack dog…

Meanwhile, Mitt is still being weighed down by questions over the secrecy of his tax returns…

Good luck getting a straight answer from one of his surrogates. They’ve had nearly as many gaffes this cycle as Romney himself…

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Synchronized Campaign Swimming

Olympics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, presidential election, synchronized swimming, defense, war, Israel, gun control, budget

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Usain Bolt Cartoons

Four years later, and runners still can’t catch Usain Bolt. The Jamaican runner became the first man to repeat as 100-meter champion with his first place finish at the London Olympic Games.

Check out what our cartoonists think in our Usain Bolt cartoon collection:

Zapiro / South Africa (click to view Usain Bolt cartoon collection)
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The Do Nothing Congress Olympics

With the Olympics in full-swing, I thought I’d share this clever mini-series of cartoons from our own R.J. Matson, the political cartoonist for Roll Call. Sadly, these cartoons are right on the mark about a Congress with an approval rating of just 12 percent:




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Cardow's Rejected Olympics Cartoon "Too Cynical"

Brilliant Canadian cartoonist Cam Cardow, the staff cartoonist for the Ottawa Citizen, had the cartoon below rejected for being too cynical and unfair. “I think it’s fair comment,” Cam wrote on his Facebook page, “but I’ll accept the cynical tag.”

Cam expanded his thoughts behind the rejected cartoon:

It’s not that I think Canadian athletes are mediocre, (because they are not) it’s just got to do with them up against some really tough competition this year,” Cam wrote. “As a result, some of Canadian coverage I’ve seen has been the proverbial making lemonade when given lemons. There hasn’t been a lot to celebrate from a Canadian perspective so far. In contrast, we have the U.S. coverage which can’t keep up to their medals and victories. It’s not a criticism, just pointing out the reality of it.

Here is the cartoon Cam drew in place of the rejected one:

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Cartoonists Love Michael Phelps

I drew this cartoon of Michael Phelps during the 2008 Olympics.  The swimmers wore body suits then (which have since been banned) and I thought the body suits were funny.

Phelps seems to be having some troubles this time around, but it seemed to all the cartoonists that he swam like a dolphin in Beijing.

David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star
Mike Keefe / PoliticalCartoons.com

Many cartoonists drew Phelps sinking to the bottom of the pool under the weight of his gold medals.  Many more drew him as a super hero.

Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune
JD Crowe / Mobile Press-Register

Soon after the olympics there was a little scandal about Phelps smoking marijuana – not something most people would care about, but cartoonists love to draw marijuana cartoons.

Frederick Deligne / France, PoliticalCartoons.com
Taylor Jones / PoliticalCartoons.com

I thought this Phelps cartoon was charming …

Joe Heller / Green Bay Press Gazette.

I’m rooting for Michael Phelps to get it together and come back.  He’s good for cartoonists.