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What’s the password? TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK!

It was a real smorgasbord of a week, with topics ranging from president debates to airplanes falling apart to the threat of yet another potential government shutdown.

Our most popular cartoon this week was Jeff Koterba’s funny peek into something we’re all dealing with – managing out ever-growing list of streaming subscriptions and passwords.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

#2. Daryl Cagle

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#3. Bob Englehart

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Guy Parsons

#6. Gary McCoy

#7. DaveWhamond

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. John Darkow

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Christmas Cheer! The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

Elf on the Shelf? Meet Bot on the Cot.

Jeff Koterba’s A.I.-inspired twist on an annual holiday tradition was our most popular reprinted cartoon this week, as we inch closer and closer to Christmas.

A number of our cartoons carried a holiday theme, including Bob Englehart’s funny take on Santa being accused of weaponizing Christmas and Rivers’ amusing image of Joe Biden getting uncomfortable with St. Nick.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

 

#2. Bob Englehart

#3. Chris Weyant

#4. Rick McKee

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Gary McCoy

#7. Rivers

#8. John Darkow

#9. Pat Bagley

#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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Cartoonists are Casualties of War Too

People who like to draw serious political cartoons for a living – people like me – have to be extra careful in these divisive times.

In just the last month three major newspapers – the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Guardian in Britain – have pulled down or decided not to publish cartoons drawn by the best editorial cartoonists in the world.

Michael Ramirez, Monte Wolverton and Steve Bell each bravely applied their talents and opinions to the brutal war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas that started Oct. 7.

For their troubles, they were charged with being Islamophobic, anti-Semitic or racist by readers, their fellow journalists and editorial boards. Bell was even fired.

The most recent example was at the Washington Post, where my good friend Michael Ramirez ran his caricature of a Hamas spokesman, Ghazi Hamadi, in a suit with five women and children roped to his body.

“How dare Israel attack civilians…” the Hamas spokesman was saying.

You’d think it’d be easy for anyone to get the point Ramirez was making. Many cartoonists have used the same idea of Hamas or Hezbollah wearing children as human shields, including me.

But many readers immediately expressed outrage on social media and bombarded the paper’s comment section from their silos.

Ramirez was charged with excusing Israel’s war crimes and pushing Israeli military talking points and accused of being a racist for his malicious, offensive and “grotesque caricature” of a Palestinian.

The reader outrage was so intense that the boss of the Post’s opinion section, David Shipley, “re-evaluated” his decision.

He didn’t just pull it down from the paper’s web site. He issued an apology for having “missed something profound, and divisive” and published a selection of critical comments by readers.

Ramirez ably defended himself on Michael Smerconish’s Nov. 11 show on CNN.

Calling the charges against him “ridiculous,” he said, “The cartoon was very specific. It pointed out the hypocrisy of an organization that uses civilians as shields” and said his critics “used the race card as a way to eliminate a contrary political opinion they don’t agree with.”

I agree with Ramirez. It was outrageous how quickly – and abjectly — the Post caved to the complaints of its noisiest, most partisan and most sensitive readers.

What happened last month at the Philadelphia Inquirer to my good friend Monte Wolverton was another example of how careful editorial cartoonists have to be today.

My small business represents Wolverton and syndicates his work. His Oct. 18 cartoon showed an oversized Israeli army boot crushing Hamas terrorists.

It ran in many other newspapers without any complaints, but the Inquirer reconsidered and decided to take it down and apologize because its editors thought the cartoon reinforced “pernicious anti-Semitic tropes about Israeli aggression.”

I suggested to Monte that he withdraw the cartoon and apologize for it because I think any big military boot in an editorial cartoon could be seen as a Nazi boot and portraying Jews as Nazis is an anti-Semitic trope.

The most outlandish – and unjustified — case of cartoon cancelling happened to the highly respected Steve Bell of the Guardian newspaper in Britain. He was fired after 40 years at the paper, over a cartoon that was never even published.

His fatal cartoon depicted Benjamin Netanyahu carving the map of Gaza on his bare belly with a scalpel and saying “Residents of Gaza get out now.” The cartoon drew upon a famous photo of Lyndon Johnson, lifting his shirt to show a scar from a recent surgery, which formed the basis for a famous cartoon by David Levine, with LBJ showing a scar shaped like Vietnam on his belly – an image familiar to all cartoonists and a good analogy.  Gaza is Netanyahu’s Vietnam.

Bell quoted his bosses as saying the cartoon could be seen as anti-Semitic because somehow they believed it was playing on the “pound of flesh” line spoken by Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s 1596 play The Merchant of Venice.

On my “Caglecast” podcast I asked the top three editorial cartoonists in Israel if Bell’s cartoon qualified as anti-Semitic and they agreed it wasn’t even close. Declaring Bell’s cartoon anti-Semitic was a ridiculous stretch.

But it shows how political cartoonists of today really have to know where to draw their lines.

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Impeachment Insanity – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

Congress is back in session, and Republicans are focusing their efforts on an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, despite the last of evidence linking him to the business dealings of his son, Hunter.

Complicating matters is the need for Congress to pass a spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, which could happen as soon as the end of next week. It all may be bad for the country, but at least it’s allowing cartoonists to create some funny and pointed work.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

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#2. Dave Granlund

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Jeff Koterba

 

#5. Jeff Koterba

 

#6. Chris Weyant

 

#7. Guy Parsons

 

#8. John Darkow

 

#9. Dave Whamond

 

#10. R.J. Matson

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Pumpkin Spice – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

It’s the middle of September, or as it’s become known across the U.S. – pumpkin spice season.

That’s when everything from coffee to Oreos to scented candles roll out pumpkin spice-flavored versions of their favorite products. At the top of the list is the Pumpkin Spice Latte, which turns 20 this year after being introduced by Starbucks in 2003.

Rick McKee’s cartoon about our obsession with all thinks pumpkin was easily our most reprinted cartoon this week. Here are the rest of our top ten reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Rick McKee

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#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. R.J. Matson

 

#4. John Darkow

 

#5. Rick McKee

 

#6. Pat Byrnes

 

#7. John Cole

 

#8. Dave Granlund

 

#9. Bob Englehart

 

#10. Dave Granlund

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Great Trump Cartoons

Here are the some great Trump cartoons from our brilliant cartoonists Rick McKee, Ed Wexler and Taylor Jones that they show and talk about on our new video CagleCast …

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Computer Drivers: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

With all the talk of automation and A.I., it’s funny to think that driverless cars have been zipping around San Francisco for the last few years.

Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to give the two companies who run the automated cars permission to offer rides throughout San Francisco anytime during the day.

That doesn’t mean the technology is perfect. Just this week, an autonomous vehicles drove into wet cement at a city paving project, making Dave Whamond’s cartoon about driverless cars and traffic lights oddly prophetic.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

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#2. Pat Bagley

#3. Frank Hansen

#4. Dave Whamond

#5. Pat Bagley

#6. Gary McCoy

#7. Gary McCoy

#8. Rick McKee

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. Dave Granlund

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Polls! Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle is later this month, and not a day goes by without the release of a new poll. Donald Trump has a wide lead over his fellow Republicans, Ron DeSantis continues to shed support, Mike Pence… well, the less said about his poll numbers, the better.

Bob Englehart had our most popular cartoon this week, a funny jab at the omnipresence of polling data as we crawl towards the election. It’s only going to get worse from here. –And WOW– Dave Whamond, Jeff Koterba and John Darkow each have THREE cartoons in the Top Ten, I can’t remember it ever happening that the Top Ten has only four cartoonists!

Here they are –the ones that newspaper editors liked best:

#1. Bob Englehart

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#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Dave Whamond

 

#5. Jeff Koterba

 

#6. Jeff Koterba

 

#7. John Darkow

 

#8. Dave Whamond

 

#9. John Darkow

 

#10. John Darkow

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

Here are the editorial cartoons that editors chose to print in the past week!  Congratulations to Dave Whamond for drawing the most popular cartoon; and to Jeff Koterba for having three cartoons in the Top Ten; and to John Darkow for having two cartoons in the Top Ten!

#1. DaveWhamond

 

#2. Chris Weyant

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#3. Jeff Koterba

 

#4. Jeff Koterba

 

#5. Guy Parsons

 

#6. John Darkow

 

#7. Jeff Koterba

 

#8. John Darkow

 

#9. Adam Zyglis

 

#10. Dick Wright

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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

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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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Climate Change Part FOUR!

These cartoons are by various CagleCartoonists, including two by me (Daryl Cagle)!  Five cartoonists discuss these and a bunch of other climate change cartoons on our Caglecast podcast!  Here’s the video!  Come look and please subscribe on YouTube.

Chris Weyant

 

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Daryl Cagle

Daryl Cagle

Patrick Chappatte

 

John Darkow

 

Adam Zyglis

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