DarylCagle.comEvery Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
Happy Flag Day! Back on this day in 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes. The U.S. flag has been altered 26 times since that day, and the 50-star flag we use today, created in 1960, has been in use the longest.
Here are some cartoons about Flag Day for you to share with your friends…
I was saddened to learn that my buddy Steve Kelley, the editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a long-time contributor to Cagle.com, has become the latest staff cartoonist to lose his job. Steve was notified today that his position would be eliminated when the company switches to a three-day-a-week print production schedule in October.
All told, Advance Publications announced that it will cut about 600 jobs at the Times-Picayune and its newspapers in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville, Ala.
Kelley is one of the funniest cartoonists in our profession. He’s personally funny too – he’s even been on The Tonight Show seven times. I’ve included a video interview I did with Steve back in 2009 during the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention in Seattle.
Kelley went to the Times-Picayune in 2002 after being fired by his first paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, over an incident involving a cartoon that poked fun at teens in low-riding jeans by showing their butt cracks. At the time, Kelley told various television stations and the American Journalism Review that the paper accused him of trying to sneak the rejected cartoon into the paper.
Steve is also the co-creator of the popular comic strip “Dustin”, along with Florida Today political cartoonist Jeff Parker (whose cartoons I syndicate through Cagle Cartoons).
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Violence in Syria has spiked in recent weeks as President Bashar al-Assad continues a bloody battle against an uprising attempting to remove him from power.
Here’s my most recent cartoon about Syria’s bloody dictator…
So far, al-Assad has lived up to the motto “like father, like son”…
He’ll stop killing his own people one of these days…
Maybe Apple can help his murderous regime stay in power…
al-Assad has certainly survived longer in power than most would have thought. Here’s a cartoon I drew back in 2005 after the U.S.-led collation invaded Iraq to depose Saddam…
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
In a hotly-contested recall election, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker easily prevailed over his democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 53 percent to 46 percent. Walker’s popularity may have been on the decline, but according to polling numbers, he benefited greatly from the fact that many Wisconsin voters didn’t think the premise of last night’s recall was legitimate.
Here what some of our cartoonists think about Walker’s victory…
