Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – May 22, 2021

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 23, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending May 22nd, 2021.

Congratulations to Dave Granlund for drawing the #1 most reprinted cartoon of the week. And a hearty congrats to Dave Whamond who has three cartoons in the Top Ten! Kudos to the other cartoonists who made the most reprinted list: Dick Wright, Dave Granlund, Rick McKee, RJ Matson, Ed Wexler, Jeff Koterba and John Darkow.

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

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#1

Dave Granlund‘s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

#2

Dave Whamond takes second place with the first of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Rick McKee wins third place.

#4

Dave Whamond claims fourth place with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Dick Wright takes the five spot.

#6

John Darkow takes sixth place.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place.

#8

RJ Matson takes eighth place.

#9

Ed Wexler takes ninth place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Dave Whamond rounds out the list with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.

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Sedition Favorites

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 22, 2021

Next week the Senate will take up the second impeachment of former president Trump. It is a good time to look back on my sedition favorites from the MAGA mob insurrection at the capitol.

My cartoon shows a MAGA guy bashing a policeman on the head with his Thin Blue Line flag. I thought this made for a nice wordless cartoon, but cartoons are supposed to be exaggeration and commentary, but this one actually happened; there was a guy in the mob doing just this – so I suppose this is more of an illustration than a political cartoon.

Here are some of my favorite cartoons about the Capitol insurrection, to set the mood for next week.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 17, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 17, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (October 10th, through October 17th, 2020). As usual, no drawings of President Trump were popular with newspaper editors. Typically 20% of the cartoons get 80% of the reprints; this week it is more like 10% of the cartoons getting 90% of the reprints as less popular cartoons got little or no ink and editors flocked to the same cartoons.

My own cartoon from last Sunday was #1 this week, by a big margin; in fact, it is the most reprinted cartoon since we starting keeping comparative download stats from subscribing newspaper editors at the beginning of the year.

Dave Whamond also stood well above the crowd with a #2 cartoon that would have been a strong #1 in any other week. Dave and I both had two cartoons on the Top Ten this week. Congratulations to the other cartoonists who made the unusually hot Top Ten this week, Dave Fitzsimmons, Steve Sack, Dave Granlund, Rick McKee, Kevin Siers and RJ Matson.

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 62 cartoonists in our CagleCartoons.com syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

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#1

My own cartoon nabbed first place this week (and this year, so far), outpacing the pack by a big margin. See the Daryl Cagle archive.

#2

Dave Whamond had a #2 cartoon that was unusually popular with editors; it is Dave’s first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Dave Fitzsimmons takes 3rd place. It looks like “Halloween in these crazy times” is what editors want.

#4

Dave Whamond takes 4th place with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

RJ Matson nabs 5th place as Republicans get closer to killing Obamacare.

#6

My own “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon is tied for 6th place. See the Daryl Cagle archive.

#6

Rick McKee shares 6th place with his “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon.

#8

Dave Granlund takes 8th place with another “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon.

#9

Steve Sack takes 9th place.

#10

And Kevin Siers takes the ten spot with a COVID “these crazy times” cartoon.

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Obama, Putin, Assad and Doggies

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 13, 2015

I think all world issues can be boiled down to doggies.

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More Nathan Bedford Forrest

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 24, 2015

This week the State of Tennessee’s Department of Transportation rejected a request from Nashville’s Metro Council (City Council) to plant foliage that would block the view of the atrocious Nathan Bedford Forrest statue that commuters see every day from Interstate 65.

I’m starting to enjoy Nathan as a cartoon character! I think I’ll use him some more in my local, Nashville Scene cartoons (the newest cartoon is below).

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Nashville’s Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 9, 2015

My latest local, altie Nashville Scene cartoon is about Nashville’s statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who fought defending Nashville from the Union Army, who was the founder of the Ku Kux Klan and the first “Grand Wizard of the KKK.” The hideous, privately owned, 25 foot tall, fiberglass statue is a local embarrassment as it can be clearly viewed from the freeway, surrounded by Confederate Battle Flags.

The statue is funny on a number of levels: the general has blue jewels for eyeballs; he has a golden pony without knees or eyeballs; and the image of Nathan Bedford Forrest looks nothing like what the general actually looked like. The statue’s sculptor was once the attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Local officials have been trying to find ways to get rid of the eyesore, or to cover it up. One solution was to have the state of Tennessee plant fast growing trees next to the freeway to block the view of the statue. The owner of the plot responded with a plan to raise the fiberglass statue onto stilts, so that it could still be seen above the trees.

Gotta love Nashville.