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Best Cartoons of the Week
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.

John Edwards Doggie Ridiculous

Five Funny Biden Gaffe Cartoons
Biden Alert! Speaking about the Obama administration’s foreign policy at New York University, Vice President delivered a snicker-worthy line when he said, “I promise you, the president has a big stick.”
The former Delaware senator is known for flubs of the tongue. He also got some laughs when he described Obama’s decisiveness, telling the audience, “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod. For real. For real.”
Here are five funny cartoon from our archives about Biden’s tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.





Front-Page Cartoon Leads Bullying Editorial
On Sunday, the Sioux City Journal devoted its entire front page to an anti-bullying editorial following the suicide of a gay teenager earlier this month. In addition to calling on the community to help end this story of abuse, the front page featured a cartoon by Brian Duffy, the former staff cartoonist at the Des Moines Register who self-syndicates his cartoons throughout the state.
Editors take note – this powerful cover has gone viral on the web and even made the rounds on cable news. Maybe you should include more cartoons and illustrations on your front pages
Here’s the top half of the paper. For the full front page, click here.
Gingrich Out
It’s official – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday.
It’s about time. If it wasn’t desperate enough that Newt Gingrich made Delaware his Waterloo, Newt was completely routed last night by Mitt Romney in all five primaries.
Newt’s campaign has been running on the fumes of $2.50 a gallon gas for a while. Here’s a round-up of cartoons about desperate Newt…





The Secret Service and the GSA Scandals

Sarkozy's Election: Five Cartoons
It’s interesting that Americans tend to disregard presidential elections in other countries, while our foreign counterparts wait with baited breath for Obama and Romney to go after one another.
It’s too bad, because there’s a really interesting election shaping up in France between incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande. The two came neck and neck in the first round of the country’s presidential election, with the final round between the two set for May 6. Things aren’t looking good for Sarkozy, and if he’s defeated, he’d become the first president in France’s history not to serve two terms.
We have a great stable of foreign cartoonists that have been covering this race, so I thought I’d share five terrific cartoons here on my blog…





Secret Service Agent

Five Great Earth Day Cartoons
Happy Earth Day! Each April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came to founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the aftermath of the horrific 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
Every year around this time, cartoonists weigh in on the fate of the planet, so I thought I’d pull together five terrific cartoons about Earth Day for your environment-loving enjoyment…





Readers of Cagle.com should already be aware of the cartoons of Jonathan Shapiro, who goes by the pen name “Zapiro.” He is the most famous cartoonist working in South Africa, and his hard-hitting cartoons have garnered the attention of the entire country, including its president Jacob Zuma.
Using a tactic often employed in oppressive regimes to crack down on freedom of the press, Zuma is currently suing Zapiro for five million rand (about $640,000) over his 2008 “Rape of Lady Justice” cartoon. The lawsuit is set for trial in the South Gauteng High Court on August 28.
I sat with Zapiro while attending this year’s Cartooning for Peace event in Caen, France, and we spoke about lawsuits, freedom of the press in South Africa and the origin of the famous showerhead that Zapiro always draws on top of Zuma’s head.
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Here are some of Zapiro’s famous cartoons, including the famous rape scene. To view our collection of his cartoons, click here. You can also visit his Web site here.





Best Cartoons of the Week
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.

















