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TRUMP IN TROUBLE: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

Donald Trump was indicted this week on federal charges linked to his handling of classified documents, a first for a former U.S. president. Naturally, the news became a launching platform for cartoonists to weigh in on a number of related topics, including Republican whataboutism and Trump’s difficulty finding new lawyers.

We also had a lot of great cartoons this week about artificial intelligence, including a funny one by Jeff Koterba that was extremely popular with editors.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

 

#2. Dick Wright

 

#3. Dave Granlund

We have a great Caglecast about Artificial Intelligence! And we’ll have a new one next week.  Watch them on YouTube or on Caglecast.com!

We just added closed captioning and different language sub-titles on YouTube, and we’ll have that soon on CagleCast.com too! In this episode see me and our CagleCartoonists Jeff Koterba, Andy Singer, Rick McKee and our anonymous cartoonist, Rivers!

 

#4. Rivers

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. R.J. Matson

 

#7. Dave Whamond

 

#8. Jeff Koterba

 

#9. Dick Wright

 

#10. Gary McCoy

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LIV IT UP: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

LIV Golf’s surprise merger with the PGA Tour continues to shock the sports world. Dave Whamond’s cartoon about new partnership – forged with Saudi money – was our most reprinted cartoon this week.

Other cartoons popular with editors this week riffed on a number of news topics ranging from orange skies in the Northeast to the pressure on teachers.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

 

#2. Dave Granlund

We have a great new Caglecast about Artificial Intelligence! Watch it on YouTube or on Caglecast.com!

We just added closed captioning and different language sub-titles on YouTube, and we’ll have that soon on CagleCast.com too! In this episode see me and our CagleCartoonists Jeff Koterba, Andy Singer, Rick McKee and our anonymous cartoonist, Rivers!

#3. John Cole

#4. Rivers

 

#5. Jeff Koterba

 

#6. Bruce Plante

 

#7. Bob Englehart

 

#8. Jeff Koterba

 

#9. Chris Weyant

 

#10. Rivers

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DEBT DEAL: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

After months of brinksmanship, House Republicans and President Joe Biden came together raise the debt ceiling and avert an economic calamity. Republicans got some of the cuts they wanted, Biden kept most of his economic policies intact, and editors got a flood of debt ceiling cartoons.

The bad news? Cartoonists will be back drawing more debt ceiling cartoons in 2025… unless we’re all replaced by AI.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

We have a great new Caglecast about Artificial Intelligence! Watch it on YouTube or on Caglecast.com!

We just added closed captioning and different language sub-titles on YouTube, and we’ll have that soon on CagleCast.com too! In this episode see me and our CagleCartoonists Jeff Koterba, Andy Singer, Rick McKee and our anonymous cartoonist, Rivers!

#2. R.J. Matson

 

#3. Jeff Koterba

 

#4. Guy Parsons

 

#5. Rivers

 

#6. John Darkow

 

#7. John Cole

 

#8. Rick McKee

 

#9. Dick Wright

 

#10. Ed Wexler

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MEMORIAL DAY: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

Dave Granlund’s simple, poignant Memorial Day cartoon was our most-reprinted cartoon this week, as we had into a weekend of remembrance and barbecues.

Editors also liked several of our cartoons on the looming debt ceiling crisis, as lawmakers leave Washington, D.C. to enjoy their holiday weekend without a resolution in place. Nice work if you can get it.

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

#1. Dave Granlund

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Rick McKee

 

#4. Bob Englehart

 

#5. Frank Hansen

 

#6. Jeff Koterba

 

#7. John Darkow

 

#8. Rick McKee

 

#9. Frank Hansen

 

#10. Dick Wright 

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A.I. INSANITY: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

You can barely open a newspaper or flip through an article on your phone without reading about the growth of artificial intelligence.

Cartoonists are watching the images created by A.I. systems – fed with a catalogue of artists’ work – with a wary eye. Maybe if we feed these computers enough cartoons critical of their creeping abilities, maybe it’ll teach them not to take all our jobs.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

 

#2. John Darkow

 

#3. Jeff Koterba

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#4. R.J. Matson

 

#5. Bob Englehart

 

#6. Dave Granlund

 

#7. Jeff Koterba

 

#8. Guy Parsons

 

#9. Gary McCoy

 

#10. John Darkow

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! TOP 10 CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

The dreaded rub of holiday cartoons – editors love them, and cartoonists hate to draw them. But it’s undeniable that Mother’s Day cartoons were popular with editors this week, as our two most-reprinted cartoons were celebrations of mothers everywhere.

Editors also ran cartoons covering a smorgasbord of topics, ranging from federal charges against Rep. George Santos to Vladimir Putin’s paltry “one-tank” military parade.

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

#1. Bill Day

 

#2. Guy Parsons

 

#3. Dave Granlund

 

#4. Rick McKee

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. Jeff Koterba

 

#7. John Darkow

#8. Monte Wolverton

 

#9. John Darkow

 

#10. Rivers

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BIDEN’S AGE: Top Ten Cartoons!

The drumbeat about President Joe Biden’s age continued to bang this week, with critics pointing to the fact he’ll be 82 on inauguration day if re-elected. Editor’s are certainly interested, with many of our most-reprinted cartoons this week revolving around the nation’s oldest president.

Editors were also interested in cartoons about the writers’ strike in Hollywood and the potential for a debt ceiling debacle, as Republicans appear ready to take us to the brink of default.

It’s never a dull moment.

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

#1. R.J. Matson

 

#2. Bob Englehart

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Pat Bagley

 

#5. Chris Weyant

 

#6. John Cole

 

#7. Jeff Koterba

 

#8. Rick McKee

 

#9. Rick McKee

 

#10. John Darkow

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Biden is Running – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

It’s finally official – President Joe Biden is running for reelection in 2024. At 80, Biden is already the oldest president in the country’s history. If he wins the election, he’ll be 82 when he’s inaugurated and leave office at the age of 86, which is sure to be great fodder for the nation’s cartoonists.

It’s not as if his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, is all that younger. Trump would be 77-years-old on inauguration day. Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Rick McKee

 

#2. R.J. Matson

 

#3. Pat Bagley

 

#4. Jeff Koterba

 

#5. Dick Wright

 

#6. Bob Englehart

 

#7. Dick Wright

 

#8. Rick McKee

 

#9. Dick Wright

 

#10. Rivers

 

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Pentagon Leaks – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

The big news over the past week was the leaking of highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other issues, allegedly released by a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

Our top three most-reprinted cartoons over the past week were about the documents, which appear to have been shared to impress people in an online chat and not for any ideological reasons. Ah, the internet.

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

#1. John Darkow

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Gary McCoy

 

#4. Rivers

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. John Darkow

 

#7. Jeff Koterba

 

#8. Frank Hansen

 

#9. Guy Parsons

 

#10. R.J. Matson

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Koterba Wins #1 spot and Needs Your Support – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

We’re going back to the moon!

Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts around the moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, was easily our most reprinted cartoon this week.

We’re running a crowd-funding campaign to support Jeff and keep him drawing cartoons. Jeff is one of our most popular cartoonists with editors, he’s an unusual moderate and a good friend. Please take a look at Jeff’s crowd-funding landing page where you can also see his archive of past cartoons, at Cagle.com/Koterba.

Editors were also interested in cartoons about longtime Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas, who reportedly accepted expensive vacations and gifts without disclosing them. Jeff also has the #8 cartoon about Justice Thomas.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

 

#2. Dave Granlund

 

#3. Dave Granlund

 

#4. Dave Whamond

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. Dave Granlund

 

#7. Dick Wright

 

#8. Jeff Koterba

 

#9. R.J. Matson

 

#10. Rivers

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Expensive Easter Eggs – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Sorry, Easter Bunny.

In the lead-up to Easter, a number of our most popular cartoons this week riffed on the impact frustratingly high egg prices could have on Easter.

There was also that relatively-minor news that Donald Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be indicted on criminal charges, as well as yet another school shooting, this time in Nashville, Tenn.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Dick Wright

 

#4. John Darkow

 

#5. Gary McCoy

 

#6. R.J. Matson

 

#7. John Darkow

 

#8. Dave Whamond

 

#9. Dick Wright

 

#10. Rivers

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TIKTOK TANGO: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced blistering questions this week, as legislators try to decide whether to ban the Chinese-owned social media platform within the U.S.

The irony, of course, is politicians are trying to protect children from a website while not lifting a finger following the latest mass shooting at a school, this time The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn.

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

#1. John Darkow

 

#2. Dave Whamond

 

#3. Monte Wolverton

 

#4. Dave Granlund

 

#5. Rivers

 

#6. R.J. Matson

 

#7. Rick McKee

 

#8. R.J. Matson

 

#9. Dave Granlund

 

#10. Rick McKee

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