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Mikhail Gorbachev RIP

The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev died this week. We hadn’t started Cagle Cartoons when the USSR fell, but we have some great, more recent Gorbachev cartoons.  Here are my favorites.

Taylor Jones

Osmani Simanca (Gorbachev did commercials for Yves Saint Laurent)

 

Christo Komarnitsky

 

Sandy Huffaker

 

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hmmm … We’re COVID Cheerleaders? Top Ten COVID Cartoons

Researchers like to categorize and count things. Most of the few scholarly studies of editorial cartoons involve making subjective judgements about cartoons to divide the cartoons into categories selected for the study.

I gave Political Science professor Dr. Jody Baumgartner full access to our archives to do a study on editorial cartoons about Coronavirus. Baumgartner and his colleague Dr. Hanna Kassab categorized and counted only CagleCartoons.com content, and their study has just been published; see it here.

The study asked if political cartoonists are “Critics” or “Cheerleaders.” The researchers studied only CagleCartoons that were about COVID during the time of the pandemic.

The conclusion of the study? Political cartoonists are “cheerleaders” for the establishment. We prefer to think of ourselves as critics.  Calling us “cheerleaders” sounds a bit rude.

Perhaps Baumgartner and Kassab are conservative and were looking for more cartoons bashing Dr. Fauci, resisting mask mandates, promoting conspiracy theories, and shilling Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, injected bleach and anti-vaxxer nonsense.

Here are the ten most reprinted pandemic cartoons since 2019. (Keep in mind that editors like for us to be cheerleaders for truth.) Congratulations to Jeff Koterba for taking four out of ten, and to Rick McKee and Dave Granlund for each having two on the Top Ten!

John Darkow

 

Dave Granlund

Dave Whamond

 

Jeff Koterba

Rick McKee

 

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LIZ CHENEY LAMENT: TOP TEN CARTOONS

August is typically a slow news month, but between the FBI searching Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and the national shortage of teachers, there’s been plenty for cartoonists to draw about.

This week, editors loved Chris Weyant’s funny cartoon about confused liberals upset over Liz Cheney’s Republican primary loss. Cartoons about rent hikes, climate change, and the slow return of COVID-19 were also popular.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Cagle.com

#2. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#3. Jeff Koterba, Support Jeff on his Patreon.

 

#4. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#5. Monte Wolverton, Cagle.com

 

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#7. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

#8. John Darkow, Cagle.com

 

#9. Dick Wright, Cagle.com

 

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

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Trump’s Top Secret Boxes

Here is my cartoon about Trump with his collection of twelve boxes of Top Secret documents. When I finished this and sent it out to newspapers I counted the boxes again and noticed that I had drawn thirteen boxes.  So much for my attempt at accuracy.  It looks like I made Trump’s problem look worse than it really is.

Here are some of my favorite cartoons about Trump’s secret documents stash from the Cagle Cartoonists.

By Chris Weyant

 

By Peter Kuper

 

By Dave Whamond

 

By Pat Bagley

 

By Rivers

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Back to School – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Kids are returning to school, and cartoonists sharpened their pencils this week on the many issues districts across the country face, whether it’s a shortage of teachers or out-of-control supply costs due to inflation.

There was also that FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo residence in Florida. While editors reprinted a number of our cartoons on the incident, just one cartoon featuring Trump made it onto our top ten list. Editors don’t like running Trump cartoons nearly as much as cartoonists love drawing them.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#2. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

 

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missouran

 

#4. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#5. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#7. John Darkow, Columbia Missouran

 

#8. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

 

#9. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

 

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

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China Tantrum for SALE –SOLD

8/15/22 — Sorry, this one has sold. (Thanks, Blake, and congratulations on your first NFT.)  I expect to put another drawing up for sale here later next week —Keep an eye out for it.

I recently drew this cartoon about China’s tantrum over Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan –and the original art is for sale.

I almost never sell my original art and I haven’t tried selling originals online before, so I thought I would give it a test and see what happens with this one. One reason I don’t sell originals is that my drawings don’t look like what you would expect from looking at the finished cartoon.  I draw in pencil, with a hard black line on vellum, then I scan the drawing as line art and add color in Photoshop.  People usually think I draw in ink.  Here’s what the original looks like …

I also draw bigger than most cartoonists. I placed a ruler on the drawing to show the scale.  My paper is 14″ x 17″. Some cartoonists draw so neatly in ink that it is hard to tell if the drawing is an original or a copy – with a pencil drawing, an original looks like an original.  I like the look and feel of pencil, and I draw with a pencil like it is ink.  A pencil drawing looks great in a frame!

This cartoon was reprinted in lots of newspapers. I guess people like panda bears.

So here’s the deal, if anyone wants this rare Daryl Cagle original, the price is only $300.00, and $35.00 shipping and handling mailed to an address in the USA, plus sales tax if you’re located in California. Email me or call (805) 969-2829 for payment information and to give me your delivery info.  Shipping will cost more to a foreign address.  What a deal! 

If you’re the one, lucky purchaser, you’ll also get a nice, signed color print of the final art, a high resolution jpg file so you can print it out yourself however you like, and an NFT!  The NFT consists of wording confirming the non-exclusive copyright license of personal reproduction rights and the bragging right that you own the NFT for this cartoon. There’s no crypto currency or blockchain to hassle with; an NFT only consists of wording that licenses an image.  And I’m happy to inscribe wording that you like on the original and print –in beautiful, matching, pencil.

So, this is a test.  Lets see what happens!  Come buy an original editorial cartoon!

Thanks,

Daryl

 

 

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Where are the Teachers? Top Ten of the Week

For the first time in a while, inflation and gas prices weren’t the top concerns among the nation’s cartoonists this week. Instead, editors plucked cartoons on topics like the country’s teacher shortage and a heat wave that scorched much of the country.

China, Brittney Griner, a surprising abortion vote in Kansas – plenty of subjects made it to the drawing board this week. Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons:

#1. Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer

 

#2. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#3. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#4. Randall Enos, Cagle.com

 

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#6. Dick Wright, Cagle.com

 

#7. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#8. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#9. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#10. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

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Recession Rumblings – Top 10, August 4th, 2022

Are we in a recession or not? Experts have been debating what’s going on after figures released last week showed that while the U.S. economy shrank for the second straight quarter, job growth continues to be strong.

Of course, things are falling along political lines – Republicans say we are, Democrats say we’re not. Does everything have to be about politics?

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

#1. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#2. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#3. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

 

#4. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#5. Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer

 

#6. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#7. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

 

#8. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

 

#9. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#10. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

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Top Ten Cartoons, 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:

#1

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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Top Ten Cartoons, July 20, 2022

Depending on what poll you read, nearly two-thirds of the country doesn’t approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as president. Crippling inflation, more COVID variants and high gas prices are just some of the issues cartoonists linked to our 46th president and his administration this week.

Editors also liked cartoons about the new photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, which offer a celestial perspective to all the squabbling and bickering in Washington.

Congratulations to Kevin Siers for the #1 cartoon, and kudos to Dave Whamond and Jeff Koterba for nabbing two cartoons each in the Top Ten.

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

#1

Kevin Siers took the #1 most reprinted spot and the #2 cartoon too!

#2

Dave Whamond  took both 1st and 2nd place  Here’s #2!

#3

Dave Whamond  took third place!

#4

Jeff Koterba nabbed 4th place.

#5

Adam Zyglis claims the five-spot.

#6

Jeff Koterba landed in sixth place.

#7

RJ Matson nabs seventh place.

#8

John Darkow took 8th place.

#9

Rivers takes 9th place!

#10

Dave Granlund  comes in at number ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons, July 13, 2022

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

#1

Dave Whamond took the #1 most reprinted spot and the #2 cartoon too!

#2

Dave Whamond  took both 1st and 2nd place  Here’s #2!

#3

Dick Wright took third place!

#4

Dave Granlund nabbed 4th place.

#5

Jeff Koterba claims the five-spot.

#6

Dick Wright landed in sixth place with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#7

John Darkow nabs seventh place.

#8

Guy Parsons took 8th place.

#9

Jeff Koterba takes 9th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten!

#10

Monte Wolverton  comes in at number ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons, July 7, 2022

Republicans versus Democrats. City residents versus country folk. Fox News versus MSNBC. America’s widening divisions were highlighted by the nation’s top cartoonists during the July 4th holiday, with little hope we’ll unite anytime soon.

At least the fireworks were pretty.

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

#1

Rivers took the #1 most reprinted spot and has two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#2

Jeff Koterba took second place, also his first of two in the list!

#3

Dave Granlund took third place!

#4

Dick Wright nabbed 4th place.

#5

Rivers claims the five-spot with a second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#6

Bruce Plante landed in sixth place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#7

Dave Whamond nabs seventh place.

#8

Monte Wolverton took 8th place.

#9

Bruce Plante takes 9th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten!

#10

John Darkow comes in at number ten — remember, that doesn’t mean “last place” it means “tenth place”, of over 100 cartoons we syndicated in the past week.

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