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Top Ten Cartoons of 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the year, 2020. We have about 700 newspapers in the USA that subscribe to our CagleCartoons.com syndicate service and we collect data on which cartoons newspaper editors download; these cartoons were the biggest hits – each was the #1 cartoons the week it ran.

The most reprinted cartoons of the year provide a clear lesson in what newspaper editors wanted to see with five of the cartoons explicitly about the pandemic and a couple of others generally about bad times. The cartoons emphasize how much editors want to see cartoons about holidays and events (Christmas, New Year, Election Day, Daylight Savings Time Day, change of season). The cartoons also clearly show how most newspaper editors tend to avoid cartoons about politics and president Trump, to the frustration of the political cartoonists.

What is most amazing about the Top Ten cartoons this year is the stellar performance of Dave Granlund who took the #1 and #2 spots with the most reprinted cartoons of the year. Jeff Koterba, Dave Whamond and I have two cartoons each on the list.

Congratulations to the other cartoonists with a most reprinted cartoons of the year: Dave Fitzsimmons. Rick McKee and Steve Sack! Check out the cartoons below!


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Dave Granlund wins the year with this wildly popular Christmas/Pandemic cartoon.

 

#2

Dave Granlund also takes second place with this Election Day reminder cartoon. Call to vote cartoons were very popular this year.

 

#3

Jeff Koterba takes third place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

 

#4

Dave Whamond takes 4th place, with the first of two cartoons on the list. Cartoons complaining about what a terrible year 2020 was, were very popular.

 

#5

I took 5th place with this general complaint about the bad times.

 

#6

Jeff Koterba takes 6th place with this COVID/New Year combo – his second on the list.

 

#7

My second cartoon on the list was a call to vote emphasizing “mail-in voting” which President Trump claimed was fraudulent because more Democrats tend to vote by mail.

 

#8

Dave Whamond claims 8th place with this cartoon about distance learning. Cartoons about school during the pandemic were top performers with editors this year.

 

#9

Rick McKee takes 9th place with Christmas/COVID combo cartoon.

 

#10

Steve Sack nabs tenth place with this lovely Autumn/how-bad-things-are cartoon.


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Daryl’s 2020 Top Ten

Here are my Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers.  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 – for today, here are mine!  See my cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!


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Editors Want You to VOTE

Newspaper editors love nothing more than a general call to action for readers to vote. Cartoons urging readers to vote are among the most reprinted of all the cartoons. Here’s my new “vote cartoon.”

People like for me to post my rough sketches, so here you go.

I wasn’t happy with Uncle Sam so I drew him over twice. Lincoln and Liberty needed to be taller, but I didn’t redraw them, I just made an indication to remember to make them taller on the final line version. I looked at some photos of Lincoln and his dark, little eyes, so I changed Abe’s eyes, but I like the bigger eyes in the sketch better; I should have gone with the bigger eyes.

This Dave Granlund cartoon from last week is our most reprinted cartoon since we started keep these stats at the beginning of the year.

These “VOTE” cartoons are also among our most reprinted cartoons this year. This one is by John Darkow.

 

My recent VOTE cartoon is our 6th most popular cartoon of the year. (Here’s my archive.)


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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – September 26, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (September 19th through September 26th, 2020).

Three of the top cartoons are about the pandemic, five are about Justice Ginsburg and her Supreme Court seat.

Congratulations to Dave Whamond for taking the #1 spot, and to Dave Granlund at #2. The top two cartoons outpaced the pack by a wide margin this week.

Kudos to Steve Sack and Jeff Koterba who each have two cartoons in the Top Ten. And congrats to the other cartoonists who made our list of the cartoons most published in newspapers this week, Pat Bagley, Rick McKee, John Darkow – and me.

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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Dave Whamond is in first place with school during the pandemic continuing to be the favorite topic for editors.

#2

Dave Granlund follows with the #2 cartoon, also about kids and the pandemic.

 

#3

Jeff Koterba takes 3rd place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#4

I nabbed fourth place.  See the Daryl Cagle archive here.

 

#5

Pat Bagley takes 5th place with the only cartoon about the election.

 

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Rick McKee took 6th place with the second of five cartoons in the Top Ten about Justice Ginsburg and her Supreme Court.

#7

Seventh place goes to John Darkow with this somber RBG cartoon.

#8

Eighth place goes to Steve Sack with the first of his two cartoons in the Top Ten.

 

#9

Jeff Koterba shares a tie for 9th place with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

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Steve Sack wraps up the list, tied for 9th place, with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.


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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – April 11, 2020

Here are the 10 most popular and most reprinted CagleCartoons for the week of April 5th through April 11th. These are the cartoons that editors download the most, in high resolution, to be published in their newspapers. Enjoy!


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Steve Sack (This cartoon was the most popular of the week, twice as popular as #2.)


Dave Whamond (This cartoon is #2 most popular.)


John Cole


Dave Fitzsimmons


Jeff Koterba


RJ Matson


Rick McKee


Kevin Siers


Ed Wexler


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