Top Ten Cartoons, July 30, 2022

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 30, 2022

Climate change was on the mind of cartoonists last week after much of the country was scorched by a record-breaking heat wave. Things have gotten so hot in Europe that Spain rolled out a new heat wave ranking system and the world’s first named heat wave – Zoe.

With consumers still impacted by rising prices, a few of our most reprinted cartoons this week centered on inflation and the possibility the U.S. could already be experiencing a recession. And more than two years after the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 is still showing up in cartoons.

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

Chris Weyant took the #1 most reprinted spot!

#2

Jeff Koterba placed 2nd. Here’s #2!

#3

Rick McKee took third place!

#4

Pat Bagley nabbed 4th place.

#5

Dick Wright claims the five-spot.

#6

Rick McKee landed in sixth place.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place.

#8

Gary McCoy took 8th place.

#9

Rivers takes 9th place!

#10

Dick Wright comes in at number ten.

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Tags aliens, Amazon, climate change, covid, healthcare, heat, inflation, Janet Yellin, pandemic, secret service, space, stars, weather

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – February 12th, 2022

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date February 12, 2022

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending February 12th, 2022. Congratulations to Dave Granlund who took the #1 spot this week by a wide margin. Dave was also the most reprinted cartoonist of the week. And kudos to Rivers who was #2 on the Top Ten and overall lists this week –and to Jeff Koterba who has two cartoons in the Top Ten.

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#1

Dave Granlund took the #1 spot.

#2

Rivers took second place too!

#3

Jeff Koterba took third place.

#4

Adam Zyglis nabs 4th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Jeff Koterba claims the five-spot.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

#7

Dave Whamond nabs seventh place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Pat Byrnes took 8th place.

#9

Monte Wolverton takes 9th place.

#10

Steve Sack wraps it up at number ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – July 17, 2021

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 17, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending July 17th, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who took both the #1 and #2 spots, dominating the week! I’m impressed!

Dave Whamond had a great week with two cartoons in the Top Ten. Kudos to the other cartoonists who made the list this week: Peter Kuper, Dick Wright, Dave Granlund, Steve Sack, John Darkow and Pat Bagley.

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.

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

#1

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

#2

Jeff Koterba also takes second place!

#3

Peter Kuper wins third place. Peter drew “Spy vs. Spy” in Mad Magazine for many years and he’s a New Yorker cartoonist.

#4

Dick Wright claims fourth place.

#5

Dave Granlund takes the five spot!

#6

Dave Whamond takes sixth place with his first of two cartoons on the list.

#7

Steve Sack nabs seventh place.

#8

John Darkow takes eighth place.

#9

Dave Whamond takes ninth place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Pat Bagley places his third cartoon on the list in tenth place.

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I Changed My Mind on This One

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 14, 2017

Here’s a cartoon that I posted, and then decided to take down. Hurricane Irma was big and terrible, and when it did much less damage to Florida than expected, it looked like the story was fading from the news. I thought that was a good time to take a shot at CNN for their silly “stand in the rain and talk breathlessly” coverage that was a big ratings booster for them. We had a transition day when this seemed like it would be a good cartoon, but now we’re getting some terrible scenes of devastation from the US Virgin Islands which deserve breathless coverage, so I thought the cartoon was insensitive and I took it down.

I’ll let the cartoon live here on my blog, just to remind me to do better next time!

Tags climate, cnn, hurricane Irma, media, television, Virgin Islands, weather

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Hurricane Newsman

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 10, 2017

With all the hurricane news, I brought back this oldie for newspapers this weekend. Most news stories don’t change much – but hurricanes seem to get much bigger as time goes by. It is reassuring to know that global warming is fake news, or I might be worried about how things are going.

Tags bath, children, Hurricane Irene, media, newsman, shower, tv, weather

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California’s “Drought”

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 13, 2017

We live with a never-ending drought in California – especially in Santa Barbara where I was just hit by a whopping $906.15 water bill for December from my local Montecito Water District. The bill included a $480.00 penalty, a $144.90 “surcharge” and a $44.59 “meter service charge.” The charge for the actual water used was $236.66. I have no idea why I had a higher reading on the meter last month. I’m guessing that the gardener may have left my low-flow sprinklers running – but that is just a guess.

I might try appealing the bill, but I’m allowed to appeal only the $480.00 penalty portion of the bill and the water district charges a non-refundable fee of over $200.00 to appeal a penalty (they tell me my appeal would be rejected because I can’t explain the high meter reading).

In “drought stricken” California we live with the random threat of crazy water bills bloated by penalties, along with our “gold is the new green” lawns. No amount of rain seems to impact the drought perception. Our local reservoir, Lake Cachuma, remains at alarmingly low levels compared to other lakes because it isn’t much of a lake; it is sustained with deliveries of water from the California state water system, which have been curtailed because of the drought. Other, better planned California reservoirs have been overflowing from the recent storms. As much as I hate to say it, I have to agree with Donald Trump that the California drought is more a matter of poor planning and poor priorities.

Nothing will turn a liberal cartoonist into a conservative like receiving a $906.15 water bill when the whole state is flooded.

Tags atmospheric river, bear, california, climate change, drought, flag, flood, Montecito Water District, rain, santa barbara, storm, weather

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Hillary and the Email Storm

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 26, 2015

Hillary is a gift to cartoonists. The fact that she is humorless makes her all the more fun.

International cartoonists make a lot of use of the “@” sign to represent email in their wordless cartoons, something that is not seen so often in American cartoons. (They also go crazy with UPC codes in their cartoons, representing commerce or general, modern commerce.) Wordy American cartoonists could do with fewer words.

Most newspapers print my cartoons in black and white. The black and white version below is just line art, which I think is more elegant, but I find that newspapers prefer to take my color cartoons and grayscale them rather than use the more simple and elegant line art. In this case, that will give them more emails, I suppose.

I drew a similar, symbolic Hillary/email cartoon some months ago, with the “@” symbol as a ball and chain. Some readers didn’t get this one – maybe because the “@” needs a gap at the end of the curl, maybe because the idea of an “@” as email is just too obscure, and “@” rain will go over their heads too. I’ll find out soon enough.

Tags @, campaign 2016, email, hillary clinton, president, presidential, rain, scandal, weather

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5 Cartoons About Today's Sweltering Heat

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 21, 2012

A heat wave blankets the country for the second straight day, as temperatures in the Northeast are expected to reach the upper 90s!

Our columnist Tom Purcell may blame air conditioners for the growth of big government in Washington (allowing politicians to keep working throughout the summer), but I would have melted by now if it wasn’t for the cold air being pumped into my studio.

Here are some funny cartoon about today’s scorcher…