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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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OUR AI FUTURE: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Writing stories. Chatting with customers. Creating illustrations. It seems like computers powered by artificial intelligence are doing everything these days. Cartoonist Rick McKee even turned to A.I. to help him create a cartoon critical of the creeping abilities of computers. https://wp.me/p4wCIX-2Kwu

Other popular cartoons this week touched on the continued high cost of food, turmoil in the banking industry, and an awkward moment when a conservative pundit couldn’t define the term “woke.”

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

#1. John Darkow

 

#2. Dick Wright

 

#3. John Darkow

 

#4. Chris Weyant

 

#5. Rivers

 

#6. John Darkow

 

#7. Dave Whamond

 

#8. R.J. Matson

 

#9. Bob Englehart

 

#10. R.J. Matson

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BANK BUST! Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

It wasn’t a great week for banks, as concern about the health of the banking system hit the stock market hard this week. So it’s not surprising many of our most popular cartoons this week revolved around the crisis in confidence surrounding the nation’s banks.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

 

#2. John Darkow

 

#3. Rivers

 

#4. R.J. Matson

 

#5. Rivers

 

#6. Gary McCoy

 

#7. Dave Granlund

 

#8. Kevin Siers

 

#9. Dave Whamond

 

#10. John Darkow

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11-MINUTE WORKOUT: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

It was really a mixed bag for editors this week, as our most popular cartoons featured a number of different topics, ranging from artificial intelligence to President Biden’s lackluster support.

Our most popular cartoon this week was an exercise-related gag by Jeff Koterba, riffing off studies that show walking just 11 minutes a day is beneficial to your health. It’s probably best to avoid the drive thru, though.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

 

#2. Dick Wright

 

#3. Rick Mckee

 

#4. Randall Enos

 

#5. Jeff Koterba

 

#6. Dave Whamond

 

#7. John Darkow

 

#8. Dave Granlund

 

#9. Pat Byrnes

 

#10. Dave Granlund

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HOT AND COLD –TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

It was an interesting week, as no single news story (outside of “Dilbert” being dropped by its syndicate) seemed to dominate the headlines. As a result, this week’s most reprinted cartoons span across multiple topics and ideas.

Our most popular cartoon among editors this week was Jeff Koterba’s piece on the growing divide between red and blue states. Only in this case, he was riffing off the weather, which was equally as divisive this week .

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

 

#2. Rick McKee

 

#3. Dave Granlund

 

#4. Rick McKee

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. Monte Wolverton

 

#7. Guy Parsons

 

#8. Chris Weyant

 

#9. Pat Byrnes

 

#10. Gary McCoy

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The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week –Bagley and Matson

What a difference an hour makes. Our Top Ten cartoons of the week changes from minute to minute as editors make new picks, and cartoons drop off when they get to be a week old –so it happened this week when I grabbed the Top Ten cartoons for our podcast earlier than my editor, Rob Tornoe, grabbed them for this column, and RJ Matson’s then #1 Social Security cartoon (that you can see in last week’s post at #8) dropped off of the list.

No matter, all the cartoons are great, and you can see a lot of great conversation about editorial cartoons, newspapers, and our crazy, troubled profession from our brilliant CagleCartoonists, Pat Bagley and RJ Matson.

With the news former President Jimmy Carter has been placed on hospice care, Dave Granlund tribute to the former peanut farmer and Navy veteran turned commander-in-chief was easily this week’s most popular cartoon among editors.

Otherwise, it was a mixed bag as far as topics go. Cartoons about inflation, the Ohio train derailment, and the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were all popular with editors this week. I particularly liked Pat Bagley‘s riff on Little Red Riding Hood, facing a dark forest of social media sites.

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

#1. Dave Granlund

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Pat Bagley

 

#4. Jeff Koterba

 

#5. Rick McKee

 

#6. Adam Zyglis

 

#7. R.J. Matson

 

#8. John Darkow

 

#9. Rivers

 

#10. Dave Granlund

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Whamond and Koterba on the Top Ten Cartoons

We have a big Caglecast video podcast this week with guest cartoonists Jeff Koterba and Dave Whamond discussing the Top Ten most reprinted cartoons of the week along with their own top ten most reprinted editorial cartoons of their careers with CagleCartoons.  Its a must-see – click the video below.

Jeff has drawn for over thirty years for the top newspaper in Nebraska, his cartoons have flown around the world on the Space Shuttle Discovery, he’s consistently appearing among most popular cartoons, he hosts a show about classical music on radio station KVNO, he plays in a popular Swing band, the Prairie Cats, and he’s been struck by lightening.

Dave Whamond is incredibly prolific! He draw two comics, “Reality Check” and “Day by Dave.” He regularly shares the top editorial cartoon spots in the Top Ten with Jeff Koterba, he is a prolific illustrator who does puzzles, greeting cards and lots of top selling children’s books.

The list below is a bit different that the Top Ten in the video, because I grabbed the cartoons at a different hour than our editor Rob Tornoe, who does the columns for us –the most popular cartoons change every monute as editors download more.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Dave Granlund

 

#5. Guy Parsons

 

#6. Dave Granlund

 

#7. Pat Byrnes

 

#8. R.J. Matson

 

#9. Dave Granlund

 

#10. Rick McKee

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Chinese Spy Balloon -Top Ten Cartoons

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This week, it was all about balloons.

The Chinese spy balloon shot down by the U.S. after floating across the country was the perfect metaphor for cartoonists. So it’s no surprise that balloon cartoons made up a majority of our most-reprinted toons this week.

Editors also reprinted a lot of cartoons about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, where he went back and forth with disapproving Republicans in real time. It’s been a wild week.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Jeff Koterba

#3. John Darkow

#4. Guy Parsons

#5. Dave Whamond

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. John Darkow

#9. Adam Zyglis

#10. Dave Whamond

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Indiana Jones and the Price of Eggs —Top Ten

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Readers enjoy holiday cartoons, so it’s no surprise Groundhog Day cartoons were popular among editors this week.

But the most reprinted cartoon this week was a clever spoof of Indiana Jones by Rick McKee, featuring the adventuring archeologist risking it all for an expensive treasure – a bunch of eggs

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

#1. Rick McKee

 

#2. R.J. Matson

 

#3. John Darkow

 

#4. Rivers

 

#5. Dave Whamond

 

#6. Bruce Plante

 

#7. Gary McCoy

 

#8. John Darkow

 

#9. R.J. Matson

 

#10. Dick Wright

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