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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – January 30, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (January 23rd through January 30th 2021).

This was an impressive week for Steve Sack, who outpaced the pack and dominated the week with the #1, #2 and #7 most reprinted cartoons of the week. Congratulations to Dave Whamond and Dave Granlund who each have two cartoons in the Top Ten.

Kudos to the other CagleCartoonists who made the Top Ten this week: Monte Wolverton, Bob Englehart and Bruce Plante.

There were three drawings of the president on the list this week – I can’t remember the last time that happened. We’re used to seeing editors shy away from drawing the president – but that was a different president.

The Top Ten cartoons are what most readers see since only 20% of the cartoons get 80% of the reprints. 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

Steve Sack won the week with this great cartoon.

#2

Steve Sack also took second place with this cartoon that also far outpaced the others.

#3

Dave Whamond won third place with his first of two cartoons on the list.

#4

Monte Wolverton took fourth place with this vaccine cartoon.

#5

Bob Englehart takes the five spot.

#6

Dave Whamond nabs sixth place with his second cartoon on the list.

#7

Steve Sack takes seventh place with this third cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Bruce Plante snags eighth place with this Hank Aaron memorial cartoon.

#9

Dave Granlund claims ninth place. It is hard to remember the last time there were three drawings of the president that made the Top Ten.

#10

Dave Granlund scores again with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

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Gamestop Clubbing

I still had my Thin Blue Line flag clubbing cartoon from last week on my mind when I heard the new reports about Reddit and Gamestop. Droves of Reddit users coordinated to drive up the stock price of Gamestop, a poorly performing, video game, brick and mortar store chain. Big Wall Street hedge funds had been “short selling” Gamestop, such that when Reddit users pushed the stock price up, the short sellers had to pay for most of the hugely inflated price of Gamestop, and the big Wall Street hedge funds took a nasty hit.

That’s the Reddit Robot on the right, with extended arms to weild the Gamestop club.

I put a label on the Wall Street pig – sorry about that, I know labels are for cartoonist sissies, but I didn’t want to draw Wall Street as a bull this time around.

Yes, I know Wall Street has three fingers and one thumb on one hand, and four fingers on the other hand, but a thumb is really another finger if you take a broader view, so he has four fingers on each hand. As it should be with Wall Street pigs.

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