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The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

The good news? Home prices are dropping. Unfortunately, interest rates continue to climb as the Federal Reserve fights to slow down inflation.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week revolve around the high prices we’re all continuing to pay. Dave Whamond’s funny Monty Python riff on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was also popular with editors.

The number eight cartoon about the “Fall Equinox” is a correction of our number one cartoon from last week. Cartoonist Guy Parsons wrote the cartoon about the “Fall Solstice” and, of course, there is no such thing. A group of school children wrote to Guy about the error, and Guy made this corrected cartoon, which was also widely published. No adults complained about the “Fall Solstice” — just kids.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#4. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#5. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#6. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#7. John Cole, Cagle.com

#8. John Cole, Cagle.com

#9. Guy Parsons, Cagle.com

#10. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

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Inflation Irritation: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Inflation remains a ripe topic for cartoonists, as prices of just about everything continue to rise across the country. It’s a good thing most cartoonists have gone digital, otherwise they’d be hit hard by the cost of paper and ink.

In other news, Russia’s war in Ukraine is still going on, with Putin and his forces unable to overwhelm the country’s defenses. And Sunday is Mother’s Day, in case you’d forgotten.

#1

RJ Matson took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Dave Granlund took second place.

#3

Dave Granlund took third place too!

#4

Rick McKee nabbed 4th place.

#5

John Darkow claims the five-spot.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

#7

Chris Weyant nabs seventh place.

#8

John Darkow took 8th place.

#9

Jeff Koterba takes 9th place too!

#10

John Darkow wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.


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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Obama and Payday Lenders!

Payday lenders are a blight on society, charging the poor hundreds of percent interest rates and trapping them in a never-ending spiral of debt. I hadn’t been aware of the problem until I first moved to Nashville and was stunned to see a payday lender on almost every block. There must be more payday lenders than restaurants in Tennessee!

Today I’m taking a holiday from my usual Obama bashing as the president is using his executive authority to impose proposed, crippling regulations on the payday loan industry that may put the whole, evil vampire’s nest out of business. Bravo, Obama!
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See me draw this one in the live-stream video below!

And watch me color it in Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq in the live-stream video below while I chat with fans from Twitch.tv/darylcagle

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Jenet Yellen and the Fed

Wall Street types are holding their breath, eagerly awaiting a new pronouncement from the Federal Reserve Bank’s meeting that’s going on now. Those Wall Street “bulls” are  looking for the word, “patience” in a Fed statement, as a clue to whether interest rates will go up, or stay low longer.

Janet Yellen is a rather dull character, but she is delightfully easy to draw. I wash more readers could recognize her so that I wouldn’t have to put a label on her expressive torso. I always feel like I’ve somehow failed in a cartoon when I have to use labels, even when I have a caricature right and the character should be recognizable. Here’s the cartoon in black and white line art, which most readers will see in the newspaper.

…and here it is in color, which most people prefer. Notice that the Wall Street bulls are all brown, St. Just style cattle, ready to slaughter for their delicious beef.

 

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Janet Yellen the Fed and Wall Street

Janet Yellen   the Fed and Wall Street © Daryl Cagle,CagleCartoons.com,Wall Street, finance, economy, interest rates, Federal Reserve Bank, the Fed, Janet Yellen, money, bull, bulls, Simon Says

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Janet Yellen the Fed and Wall Street

Janet Yellen   the Fed and Wall Street © Daryl Cagle,CagleCartoons.com,Wall Street,finance,economy,interest rates,Federal Reserve Bank,the Fed, Janet Yellen,money,bull,bulls,Simon Says

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Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing!

Here’s my weekly blog about my latest cartoons!  The last two are about the drop in the stock market and rise in interest rates after remarks by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.  Here’s another take on the Wall Street bull.

133579 600 Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing! cartoons

And here is Bernanke, trimming rates, only to see a little sprout of the economy bloom.

133538 600 Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing! cartoons

47151 600 Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing! cartoonsBernanke, and Greenspan before him, have been trimming rates for a long time.  This cartoon adds sprouts to a three year oldie (right).  This one amuses me because it is the kind of thing our editorial cartooning professional organization will be discussing next week – whether to ban editorial cartoons that consist of alterations to previously drawn cartoons.  The cartoon police may come down on me for ethical infractions like this one.  Cartoonists are a humorless bunch, when it comes to “cartoon ethics.”

The previous cartoon was about the NSA eavesdropping scandal.  Presidential ears tend to grow over the years in editorial cartoons, and Obama’s big cartoon ears have become absurdly huge among my colleagues.  I once met Obama’s buddy, Susan Rice when she was UN Ambassador, and all she wanted to talk about was why I draw Obama’s ears so big.  I didn’t have a good answer, except for “peer pressure.”  I may keep drawing Obama’s ears small.  Maybe the cartoon police will cite me for a small ears infraction too.

133187 600 Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing! cartoons

The next cartoon is about “Value Added” testing of teachers.  This cartoon is just a list of the bad things value added testing encourages teachers to do.  There have been lots of testing scandals around the country featuring these abuses, among others.  I got an interesting response to this cartoon from defenders of teachers, who saw the cartoon as “teacher bashing” rather than testing bashing.

133149 600 Interest Rates, NSA Spying, Obama and Teacher Testing! cartoons

 

 

 

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Interest Rates Go Up

Interest Rates Go Up © Daryl Cagle,CagleCartoons.com,interest rates,stock market,Wall Street,graph,crash,stocks,mortgages,bull,business,Economy

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Economic Storm

Economic Storm Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,storm, lightening, stock market, dollar, interest rates, tornado, house, housing crisis, mortgage

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Greenspan Prunes

Greenspan Prunes © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Greenspan, prunes, interest rates, slash, cut, chop, clippers, trunk, tree, economy