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Summer blues: Top ten cartoons of the week

With everything going on in Washington these days, it’s hard to actually enjoy the summer.

Whether it’s aggressive ICE agents, cuts to public broadcasting, or Trump’s off-and-on tariffs, the beach isn’t enough of a distraction over the dysfunction and short-sightedness of our current government.

That’s the crux of Chris Weyant’s popular cartoon this week, which features a vacationing man whose angry red face is easily confused with sunburn. Dave Granlund’s summer cartoon shows an equally-angry family, but instead of being upset over politics they’re upset about lifeguard shortages and E. coli in the water. Gross.

I did chuckle at John Darkow’s cartoon, which shows ICE agents working in a field, replacing the migrant workers they callously forced out of the country. Enjoy the summer heat!

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Jeff Koterba

We have a great new Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!

#3. Dave Granund

#4. John Darkow

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. R.J.Matson

#10. John Darkow

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Texas tragedy: Top ten cartoons of the week!

At least 120 people are dead – including scores of kids – after devastating floods ravaged a central Texas county last week. That number will almost surely go up, and reports indicate Trump’s deep cuts to the National Weather Service may have played a role in limiting the response.

While a lot of Texas flooding cartoons were used by editors this week, their favorite was a simple yet sympathetic response to the tragedy drawn by Bob Englehart. Jeff Koterba’s flood cartoon, also popular with editors, was more pointed – it featured Elon Musk dancing on the roof of a flooded house waiving his government-slashing chainsaw.

Speaking of Musk, he also made an appearance in our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, a criticism of his new America Party drawn by Jonathan Brown. The bumper sticker on the car in the cartoon says it all: “Get us out of this mess.”

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

#1. Jonathan Brown

#2. Dave Whamond

We have a great new Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!
#3. Bob Englehart

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Michael de Adder

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Jonathan Brown

#8. John Darkow

#9. Margolis & Cox

#10. Adam Zyglis

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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

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No Jail for Zehra! Our Cartoonist from Turkey is Acquitted!

Our CagleCartoonist from Turkey, Zehra Ömeroglu, was just acquitted! Zehra has been on trial for “obscenity” in Turkey, facing a possible sentence of three years in prison; she fled to Germany while the trial continued in her absence. You can see Zehra’s cartoons and bio on Cagle.com here: https://cagle.com/zehra

See Zehra tell her story and show her cartoon that got her arrested at 4:09 in the video below.
Also on the podcast are CagleCartoonist Emad Hajjaj, who was jailed in Jordan for a cartoon, and now lives in Virginia, along with Terry Anderson from CartoonistsRights.org.

This podcast is called “Jailed Cartoonists and the Cartoons that put them in JAIL.” I’ll do a followup podcast with Zehra soon and she’ll tell us about her last few months, about how she’s doing after the acquittal, and she’ll tell us about the new graphic novel she’s working on, about her five years on trial, threatened with years in prison in Turkey.  Scary stuff!

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Iran again: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

You again?

That was the punchline of Bruce Plante’s funny cartoon about our old advisory Iran being in the news again, thanks to President Trump’s unilateral decision to bomb nuclear sites within the country.

Our sudden and apparently short-lived conflict with Iran (on behalf of Israel) garnered a lot of interest from editors, as most of our top cartoons this week touched on the topic. “I hate sequels!” complained a woman in John Darkow’s cartoon about Iran, while Rick McKee had Trump painting a massive bomb with the message, “Now is the time for peace.”

While most of the focus was on Iran, our most-reprinted cartoon of the week came from out of left field, pun intended – a Dodgers-themed cartoon involving a baseball fan with an encyclopedic memory forgetting his wedding anniversary.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Bruce Plante

We have a great new Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. John Darkow

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Rick McKee

#7. Chris Weyant

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. R.J.Matson

#10. Harley Schwadron

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Mother’s Day: Top ten cartoons of the week

Sunday is Mothers Day, in case you needed a reminder. So this week’s list of our most reprinted cartoons features a number of pieces celebrating the mothers of America.

But our most popular cartoon of the week was a poke against relentlessly high grocery store prices, drawn by John Darkow. I’m not optimistic things will get much cheaper anytime soon, especially with Trump’s tariffs on deck. That’s good for cartoonists and bad for everyone else.

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

#1. John Darkow

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Dick Wright

#5. Gary McCoy

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. John Darkow

#9. Jonathan Brown

#10. Pat Bagley

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DOGE CUTS: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

IRS agents. VA workers. Park rangers. Air traffic controllers. Social Security administrators. No one employed by the federal government appears safe with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency waiving a chainsaw across Washington.

Our top two most-reprinted cartoons of the week come from Chris Weyant, and both mock Musk’s blunt and mistake-prone process of trimming the size of the federal workforce. I also enjoyed Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about astronauts returning home after being stuck on the International Space Station, only to find a “Planet of the Apes” scenario playing out in the U.S.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Chris Weyant

Those two Lovebirds, Trump and Putin, take their bromance to new heights in 80 brilliant cartoons! Don’t miss the passion as these handsome dictators flirt and fling through the pens of our brilliant Cagle Cartoonists — on our 4K Caglecast! (Great cover image by Pat Bagley.)

#3. Jeff Koterba

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. John Darkow

#6. John Darkow

#7. John Darkow

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Alexandra Bowman

#10. Bruce Plante

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week! DOGE, Musk, Inflation, Taxes and More!

The U.S. government is undergoing mass layoffs that threaten many sectors previously taken for granted by taxpayers, including air safety, disease prevention, veteran healthcare, and even processing tax returns.

Our most-reported cartoon of the week comes from Dave Whamond, and features a scary but funny joke about a passenger paying an extra fee to guarantee a safe landing.

Editor’s also loved John Darkow’s cartoon about letting Elon Musk process everyone’s tax return, while Jeff Koterba focused his pen on Uncle Sam waiting in the unemployment line.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. John Darkow

#2. Dave Granlund

#3. Bob Englehart

#4. John Darkow

#5. Jeff Koterba

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Whamond

#8. Daryl Cagle

#9. Daryl Cagle

#10. Adam Zyglis

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Top Ten Cartoons of the WEEK!

This week in Washington, one of the big news stories was a fight between Donald Trump and the Associated Press over whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America.

Our most popular cartoon of the week was drawn by Bob Englehart, and features a GPS overwhelmed by the Gulf of American and all the other new names Trump is throwing out there.

I contributed by drawing a cartoon about a depressed student being forced to write “Gulf of America” over and over again on the chalkboard. On some level, it feels like most of us are being punished.

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

#1. Bob Englehart

#2. Dave Granlund

#3. Bob Englehart

#4. John Darkow

#5. Jeff Koterba

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Whamond

#8. Daryl Cagle

#9. Daryl Cagle

#10. Adam Zyglis

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Gulf of Whatever: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Editors love holiday cartoons, so it’s no surprise a number of clever Valentine’s Day cartoons topped our most-reprinted list this week.

Dave Whamond went with the candy heart approach, filling them with phrases that sum up the current environment in Washington. Bob Englehart went with the gift of a dozen eggs in his popular cartoon, a pricey extravagance these days anyone would take over a box of chocolates.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

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#2. Bob Englehart

#3. Harley Schwadron

#4. Dave Whamond

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Bruce Plante

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. John Darkow

#10. Dave Whamond

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Great New Global Warming Cartoons!

We have a cool – yet hot – new Caglecast about Global Warming with three brilliant, award winning cartoonists discussing their cartoons about our growing climate apocalypse. See the podcast here:

Pat Bagley has been the brilliant, cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah since 1979. Pat has won a ton of awards including the Herblock Award and he’s also a shining star in our profession.

Graeme MacKay is the brilliant cartoonist for the Hamilton Spectator in Ontario, Canada and he’s won a ton of awards too.

Rod Emmerson is the brilliant cartoonist for the New Zealand Herald since 2003, before that he was an Australian cartoonist and he’s won tons of awards too, including two Australian Stanley awards for best editorial cartoonist.

Come take a look on YouTube –it really is a great one with great cartoonists, and it is fun to see the faces behind the cartoons.

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Putin After the Wagner Rebellion

Russia was crazy last week and that made for some crazy-great political cartoons. Here is a batch of my favorite new ones.

The first is one I drew, of the Russian Coat of Arms with the two headed eagle, that doesn’t get along very well with himself now. He’s cursing and calling himself a traitor in Russian.

We often see this two-faced, golden eagle in the middle of Russia’s “tri-color” flag, behind Putin as he’s giving a speech, looking like this.

Our anonymous cartoonist, Rivers, drew a shrinking Putin …

Bill Day had another take on shrinking Putin …

Putin got some backfire from John Darkow …

Pat Bagley put it into a diagram …

And Shooty, our cartoonist in Slovakia, drew this one with Putin and Pregozhin wrestling in a pool of blood.

Dave Whamond saw through the whole thing …

I’ll post some more great ones as they come in!

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