Fireworks galore: Top ten cartoons of the week

There’s been plenty of fireworks to go around recently, between Trump’s combative rhetoric and Congress passing a controversial budget that cuts taxes and Medicaid.

Thankfully this week we get fun fireworks added to the mix as we celebrate our country’s birthday, despite our founders believing we’d all be eating burgers and drinking beers on July 4.

While this week’s top ten list is dominated by the holiday, our most-reprinted cartoon mocks the hapless Democrats, where the fireworks are between the party’s young activists and old guard.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Gary McCoy

At about the same time that our cartoonist, Zehra Omeroglu was aquitted, and is no longer facing three years in Turkish prison.  This week, another cartoonist in Turkey, Dogan Pehlivan (along with the editorial staff of the Le Man magazine) was arrested for drawing a cartoon that Turkish authorities didn’t like – this is the same magazine that published Zehra’s offending cartoon.

See Zehra tell her story and show her cartoon that got her arrested at 4:09 in our video below.

#3. Bruce Plante

#4. Jonathan Brown

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. John Darkow

#10. R.J. Matson