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BAD NEWS: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

These days, we always seem to be surrounded by bad news. The conflict in Israel. Mass shootings across the country. A political system that never seems to work.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week centered around that theme, including Chris Weyant’s touching piece about a father reading at night to her daughter. If only we could all just live happily ever after.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

 

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#2. Dave Whamond

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Daryl Cagle

 

#5. Dave Whamond

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#6. Dick Wright

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#7. John Darkow

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#8. Jeff Koterba

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#9. Dave Granlund

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#10. John Darkow

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Election Burnout: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

If you haven’t noticed by all the political attack ads on television, it’s nearly Election Day! In just a couple of days Americans will be heading down to their local polling place to cast that vote in the 2022 midterms.

Elections are always a long slog for both voters and cartoonists, who just feel fatigued by the whole thing at this point. But at least they give us plenty to draw about.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#2. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#3. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

 

#4. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#5. R.J. Matson, Roll Call

 

#6. R.J. Matson, Cagle.com

 

#7. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#8. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

 

#9. Ed Wexler, Cagle.com

 

#10. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

Our weekly Top Ten is now a newspaper column!  Subscribing editors can find it at CagleCartoons.com with download links to grab the cartoons in high resolution.

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Midterms Approach: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

We’re a little more than a week out from Election Day, and inflation remains one of the biggest issues of the midterms. Everything just seems to keep getting more and more expensive.

Of course, the election itself is a great topic for cartoons. Election deniers, unfit candidates, polarization – unfortunately there’s a lot of material for cartoonists to work with.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#4. Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

 

#5. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#7. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#8. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#9. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of Cagle Cartoons, Inc, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to hundred of newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at: DarylCagle.com. See all of the cartoons at Cagle.com.
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hmmm … We’re COVID Cheerleaders? Top Ten COVID Cartoons

Researchers like to categorize and count things. Most of the few scholarly studies of editorial cartoons involve making subjective judgements about cartoons to divide the cartoons into categories selected for the study.

I gave Political Science professor Dr. Jody Baumgartner full access to our archives to do a study on editorial cartoons about Coronavirus. Baumgartner and his colleague Dr. Hanna Kassab categorized and counted only CagleCartoons.com content, and their study has just been published; see it here.

The study asked if political cartoonists are “Critics” or “Cheerleaders.” The researchers studied only CagleCartoons that were about COVID during the time of the pandemic.

The conclusion of the study? Political cartoonists are “cheerleaders” for the establishment. We prefer to think of ourselves as critics.  Calling us “cheerleaders” sounds a bit rude.

Perhaps Baumgartner and Kassab are conservative and were looking for more cartoons bashing Dr. Fauci, resisting mask mandates, promoting conspiracy theories, and shilling Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, injected bleach and anti-vaxxer nonsense.

Here are the ten most reprinted pandemic cartoons since 2019. (Keep in mind that editors like for us to be cheerleaders for truth.) Congratulations to Jeff Koterba for taking four out of ten, and to Rick McKee and Dave Granlund for each having two on the Top Ten!

John Darkow

 

Dave Granlund

Dave Whamond

 

Jeff Koterba

Rick McKee

 

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 30th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 30th, 2021.  Congratulations to Rick McKee who was our most reprinted cartoonist of the week, on the strength of four great Halloween cartoons from earlier in the week.

Rick and I tied for the #1 most reprinted cartoon of the week, with each of our cartoons appearing in approximately 112 newspapers. Rick also has an impressive three cartoons in the Top Ten.  I have two.

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.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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Rick McKee took the #1 spot and has three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#1

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) placed second.

#3

Rick McKee nabbed third place with another Halloween cartoon.

#4

Dave Whamond took 4th place.

#5

Gary McCoy claims the five-spot.

#6

Pat Byrnes came in sixth.

#7

RJ Matson nabs seventh place!

#8

Dave Granlund took 8th place.

#9

Rick McKee takes 9th place with his third Halloween cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Daryl Cagle (me again) rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 23rd, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 23rd, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who seems to draw the most reprinted cartoon every week lately! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 114 newspapers. Jeff has two cartoons in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall. Also the same as the last two weeks.

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.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot again.

#2

Monte Wolverton placed second.

#3

Rick McKee nabbed third place.  This is an oldie I drew thirteen years ago.  It still seems appropriate so I dusted it off and posted it again.

#4

Jeff Koterba took 4th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#5

David Fitzsimmons claims the five-spot.

#6

Rivers came in sixth.

 

#7

Dave Granlund nabs seventh place!

#8

John Darkow took 8th place.

#9

Dave Whamond takes 9th place.

#10

Steve Sack rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 16th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 16th, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who drew the most popular cartoon again this week! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 122 newspapers. Jeff and Bob Englehart have two cartoons each in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall. Also the same as last week.

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.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot by a wide margin.

#2

Bob Englehart placed second.

#3

Daryl Cagle nabbed third place.  This is an oldie I drew thirteen years ago.  It still seems appropriate so I dusted it off and posted it again.

#4

Bob Englehart took 4th place.

#5

Dave Whamond claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Granlund came in sixth.

 

#7

Pat Byrnes nabs seventh place!

 

#8

Jeff Koterba took 8th place.

#9

John Cole takes 9th place.

#10

John Darkow rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 10th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 10th, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who drew the most popular cartoon of the week! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 138 newspapers, well ahead of #2. Jeff and John Darkow each have two cartoons in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist for the week, overall.

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.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot by a wide margin.

#2

Chris Weyant placed second.

#3

Dave Granlund nabbed third place.

#4

Gary McCoy took 4th place.

#5

Jeff Koterba claims the five-spot.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

 

#7

John Cole nabs seventh place!

 

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

RJ Matson takes 9th place.

#10

John Darkow rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 3rd, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 3rd, 2021. Congratulations to Monte Wolverton who drew the most popular cartoon of the week! Monte’s cartoon was reprinted in about 128 newspapers. And congratulations to Jeff Koterba who was the most reprinted cartoonist for the week, overall and who has an impressive THREE CARTOONS on the Top Ten this week.

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.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

#1

Monte Wolverton took the #1 spot.

#2

RJ Matson placed second.

#3

Jeff Koterba nabbed third place.

#4

Jeff Koterba also took 4th place.

#5

Rick McKee claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Whamond came in sixth.

 

#7

Bob Englehart nabs seventh place!

 

#8

Dick Wright took for 8th place with this vaccine cartoon.

#9

Jeff Koterba takes 9th place with this third cartoon in the Top Ten this week.

#10

Gary McCoy takes 10th place!

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Rick McKee’s 2020 Top Ten

Here are Rick McKee’s Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers.  Rick is impressive and prolific, he worked for many years as the editorial cartoonist for the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, he has taken over the classic comic panel “Pluggers” and he also draws a new newspaper comic strip, “Mt. Pleasant.”

We keep statistics on how many editors, who subscribe to our syndicate service at CagleCartoons.com, download each cartoon. Over the next few days I’ll post Top Ten cartoons from some of our other CagleCartoonists!  See Rick’s cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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John Darkow 2020 Top Ten

Here are John Darkow’s Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers.  John is impressive and prolific, he’s been a professional cartoonist for over thirty years and he currently draws for The Columbian Missourian newspaper.

We keep statistics on how many editors, who subscribe to our syndicate service at CagleCartoons.com, download each cartoon. Over the next few days I’ll post Top Ten cartoons from some of our other CagleCartoonists!  See John’s cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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Jeff Koterba 2020 Top Ten

Here are Jeff Koterba’s Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers. Jeffrey Koterba is a cartoonist, writer, musician, and creativity advocate. A cartoonist for The Omaha World-Herald from 1989 to 2020, his award-winning work has appeared in publications the world over, and have also gone into space. Entertainment Weekly called Jeff’s memoir, Inklings, “…a powerful and moving portrait of an artist.” He is lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Prairie Cats, a swing and jump-blues band.

We keep statistics on how many editors, who subscribe to our syndicate service at CagleCartoons.com, download each cartoon. Over the next few days I’ll post Top Ten cartoons from some of our other CagleCartoonists!  See Rick’s cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

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