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The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week –Bagley and Matson

What a difference an hour makes. Our Top Ten cartoons of the week changes from minute to minute as editors make new picks, and cartoons drop off when they get to be a week old –so it happened this week when I grabbed the Top Ten cartoons for our podcast earlier than my editor, Rob Tornoe, grabbed them for this column, and RJ Matson’s then #1 Social Security cartoon (that you can see in last week’s post at #8) dropped off of the list.

No matter, all the cartoons are great, and you can see a lot of great conversation about editorial cartoons, newspapers, and our crazy, troubled profession from our brilliant CagleCartoonists, Pat Bagley and RJ Matson.

With the news former President Jimmy Carter has been placed on hospice care, Dave Granlund tribute to the former peanut farmer and Navy veteran turned commander-in-chief was easily this week’s most popular cartoon among editors.

Otherwise, it was a mixed bag as far as topics go. Cartoons about inflation, the Ohio train derailment, and the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were all popular with editors this week. I particularly liked Pat Bagley‘s riff on Little Red Riding Hood, facing a dark forest of social media sites.

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

#1. Dave Granlund

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Pat Bagley

 

#4. Jeff Koterba

 

#5. Rick McKee

 

#6. Adam Zyglis

 

#7. R.J. Matson

 

#8. John Darkow

 

#9. Rivers

 

#10. Dave Granlund

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ELECTION’S END: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

You might have heard; there was an election this week. While there is a good deal that remains uncertain (Georgia’s Senate race won’t be settled until next month), one thing that seems universal is our exhaustion over election ads and petty bickering from candidates.

Fortunately, we can all now safely turn on our TVs and not be afraid of eerie music playing behind black and white images of craven politicians attacking one another. We’ll just have to wait a bit longer for those lawn signs to be removed.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#4. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#6. Randall Enos, Cagle.com

 

#7. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#8. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#9. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#10. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

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Election Burnout: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

If you haven’t noticed by all the political attack ads on television, it’s nearly Election Day! In just a couple of days Americans will be heading down to their local polling place to cast that vote in the 2022 midterms.

Elections are always a long slog for both voters and cartoonists, who just feel fatigued by the whole thing at this point. But at least they give us plenty to draw about.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#2. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#3. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

 

#4. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#5. R.J. Matson, Roll Call

 

#6. R.J. Matson, Cagle.com

 

#7. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#8. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

 

#9. Ed Wexler, Cagle.com

 

#10. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com


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Top Ten Cartoons, July 1, 2022

Things are hot right now across the United States, and I’m not just talking about the weather.

Cartoonists responded to a host of issues this week, from the explosive January 6 committee hearings to the continued high prices we’re paying for just about everything. If that weren’t enough, there’s the looming threat of a recession off in the horizon, just in time for the midterm elections.

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

#1

Chris Weyant took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Dave Whamond took second place, also his first of two in the list!

#3

Jeff Koterba took third place!

#4

Rick McKee nabbed 4th place.

#5

John Darkow claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Granlund landed in sixth.

#7

Randall Enos nabs seventh place.

#8

RJ Matson took 8th place.

#9

Dick Wright takes 9th place!

#10

Guy Parson’s number ten cartoon bridges the gap between weeks, coming in at number five last week. This cartoon was reprinted more than the other nine cartoons on the list this week.


Our weekly Top Ten is now a newspaper column!  Subscribing editors can find it at CagleCartoons.com with download links to grab the cartoons in high resolution.

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Inflation Irritation: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

The Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was still on the mind of cartoonists and editors this week, which isn’t surprising since the landmark ruling on abortion has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years.

Inflation and supply chain problems continue to be issues that resonate with readers, especially with the news this week that baby formula is hard to find. What food shortage will we be drawing about next week?

#1

Rivers took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Rivers also took second place.

#3

Jeff Koterba  took third place!

#4

John Darkow nabbed 4th place.

#5

Bob Englehart claims the five-spot.

#6

Randall Enos came in sixth.

#7

John Cole nabs seventh place.

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

Kevin Siers takes 9th place!

#10

Dave Granlund wraps it up at number ten.


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More Supreme Court and Women Cartoons

Here’s my newest cartoon about the Supreme Court’s likely decision eliminating the federal abortion rights. We’ve had a lot of cartoons flowing in on the subject, from the CagleCartoonists. Here are some of my favorites, below.  Also, in case you missed it, I was posting the first cartoons that came in after the draft decision was leaked; see those on my post from last week.

By John Darkow

 

By Angel Boligan

 

By Tom Janssen

 

By Christopher Weyant

 

By Dick Wright

 

By Dave Whamond

By Randall Enos

 

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – April 11, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending April 11rd, 2021.

Congrats to Bob Englehart who has the #1 cartoon. Congratulations to Dick Wright who had his best performance since joining CagleCartoons with the #4 and #5 cartoons. Also congrats to Dave Granlund who has two cartoons in the Top Ten.

And kudos the other cartoonists who had most reprinted cartoons last week, Pat Bagley, Steve Sack, Jeff Koterba, Dave Fitzsimmons and John Darkow.

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#1

Bob Englehart wins outpacing the pack!

#2

Pat Bagley takes second place.

 

#3

Steve Sack wins third place.

 

#4

Dick Wright nabs fourth place with his first to two cartoons on the Top Ten list.

 

#5

Dick Wright takes the five spot with second of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#6

Jeff Koterba takes sixth place.

#7

Dave Granlund wins seventh place with his first of two cartoons on the list.

#8

Dave Fitzsimmons takes eighth place.

 

#9

Dave Granlund snags ninth place with his second cartoon on the list.

 

#10

John Darkow wraps up the list in tenth place.


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Darkow Decade!

Here are John Darkow’s favorite cartoons of the past decade! John is the staff cartoonist for The Columbia Missourian.

See John’s favorite cartoons on USA Today where you can click on each cartoon and see it blown up to fill the screen with a pretty, high-resolution image. John’s cross-hatching is very impressive in a large scale!  See the complete archive of John’s syndicated cartoons here.

Look at our other, great collections of Cartoons Favorites of the Decade, selected by the artists.
Pat Bagley Decade!
Nate Beeler Decade!
Daryl Cagle Decade! 
Patrick Chappatte Decade!
John Cole Decade!
John Darkow Decade!
Bill Day Decade!
Sean Delonas Decade!
Bob Englehart Decade!
Randall Enos Decade!
Dave Granlund Decade!
Taylor Jones Decade!
Mike Keefe Decade!
Peter Kuper Decade!
Jeff Koterba Decade!
RJ Matson Decade!
Gary McCoy Decade!
Rick McKee Decade!
Milt Priggee Decade!
Bruce Plante Decade!
Steve Sack Decade!


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The NRA and the Republican Doggie!

Since the Orlando massacre there has been talk on the left about gun control, while the right seems unmoved by arguments to limit assault weapons or ban sales of guns to people on the “no-fly” list. It isn’t hard to see why.

I like the image of the NRA as a pig in a business suit – much the same image that I often use for Wall Street. The pig is a symbol of greed and the NRA is all about money and self interest around their gun issues. Here’s another one with NRA piggies that I drew some time ago.

and here’s another one …

My pigs are influenced by my old Muppet days and I guess I have a pig style that some people see as too similar to my elephants. Whenever I draw pigs in cartoons I’ll get an e-mail from somebody who thinks my pig is a short snouted elephant – some people must suffer from pig-blindness.

The videos of my drawing the new NRA piggy and doggie are below. Note that I ran into a problem with Photoshop when I tried to put in the image of the $100 bill. I thought using a $100 bill was funny and enhanced the message of the cartoon; it created a natural, visual focal point drawing the eye up to the money. Its all about the money. Photoshop blocks images of bank notes as a barrier to counterfeiters, and this has been a problem for me with past cartoons. In the videos you’ll see me struggle with this again. I use money scans rarely enough that I always forget how I worked around it the last time. You’ll see me struggle a bit and figure it out in the video.

Here I am drawing the piggy/doggie cartoon …

and here I am coloring the piggy/doggie cartoon …

 

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