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Top Ten Cartoons of January, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last month, January, 2021.  We usually do the Top Ten of the Week, but this week our stats were down for a couple of days as were were working on new programming. The weekly Top Ten will be back next Saturday.

January was a wild month with the pandemic, the presidential inauguration and the Capitol insurrection. New Years, Martin Luther King and GameStop also made the list.

This was an impressive month for Steve Sack, who had a strong #1 and and also scored in 6th place.  Dave Granlund also kicked cartoon butt with three cartoons on the list (#2, #5 and #9). Dave Whamond (#7 and #10) and Jeff Koterba (#3 and #4) each had two cartoons on the list. Kudos to Dave Fitzsimmons who had the #8 cartoon.

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#1

Steve Sack won the week with this great cartoon.

#2

Dave Granlund took second place with another pandemic cartoon.

#3

Jeff Koterba won third place with this New Years cartoon, posted after New Years Day.

#4

Jeff Koterba also took fourth place with this Capitol Insurrection cartoon.

#5

Dave Granlund took the five spot with this Inauguration Day cartoon.

#6

Steve Sack nabs sixth place with the pandemic and his second cartoon on the list.

#7

Dave Whamond takes seventh place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Fitzsimmons snags eighth place with this Martin Luther King Day memorial cartoon.

#9

Dave Granlund claims ninth place with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

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

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Nashville’s Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue

My latest local, altie Nashville Scene cartoon is about Nashville’s statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who fought defending Nashville from the Union Army, who was the founder of the Ku Kux Klan and the first “Grand Wizard of the KKK.” The hideous, privately owned, 25 foot tall, fiberglass statue is a local embarrassment as it can be clearly viewed from the freeway, surrounded by Confederate Battle Flags.

The statue is funny on a number of levels: the general has blue jewels for eyeballs; he has a golden pony without knees or eyeballs; and the image of Nathan Bedford Forrest looks nothing like what the general actually looked like. The statue’s sculptor was once the attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Local officials have been trying to find ways to get rid of the eyesore, or to cover it up. One solution was to have the state of Tennessee plant fast growing trees next to the freeway to block the view of the statue. The owner of the plot responded with a plan to raise the fiberglass statue onto stilts, so that it could still be seen above the trees.

Gotta love Nashville.

 

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