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MEMORIAL DAY: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

Dave Granlund’s simple, poignant Memorial Day cartoon was our most-reprinted cartoon this week, as we had into a weekend of remembrance and barbecues.

Editors also liked several of our cartoons on the looming debt ceiling crisis, as lawmakers leave Washington, D.C. to enjoy their holiday weekend without a resolution in place. Nice work if you can get it.

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

#1. Dave Granlund

 

#2. Jeff Koterba

 

#3. Rick McKee

 

#4. Bob Englehart

 

#5. Frank Hansen

 

#6. Jeff Koterba

 

#7. John Darkow

 

#8. Rick McKee

 

#9. Frank Hansen

 

#10. Dick Wright 

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Top Ten Cartoons, June 2, 2022

After a gunman massacred 19 kids in a school in Uvalde, Texas, it’s not surprising to see a number of our shooting cartoons widely reprinted by news organizations. But what is surprising is the four most reprinted cartoons this week had nothing to do with country’s latest mass shooting – they touched on college graduation, inflation, and Memorial Day.

Peter Kuper’s cartoon about masks was also one of the most widely-reprinted cartoons this week, a sign that more than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 still remains an important issue in the lives of readers.

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

 

#1

Gary McCoy took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) took second place!

#3

Dave Granlund took third place!

#4

Dave Whamond nabbed 4th place too.

#5

Dave Granlund claims the five-spot with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#6

Kevin Siers came in sixth.

#7

Dick Wright nabs seventh place.

#8

Peter Kuper took 8th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#9

Adam Zyglis takes 9th place!

#10

John Darkow wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon on the list.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – June 5, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending June 5th, 2021.

Congratulations to Dave Whamond for drawing the #1 most reprinted cartoon of the week!  This was really Dave Granlund‘s week with a whopping three cartoons in the TopTen.

Congrats to the other artists with the most reprints this week, Dick Wright, Jeff Koterba, Steve Sack, John Darkow, Rick McKee and Monte Wolverton.

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.

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#1

Dave Whamond‘s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

 

#2

Jeff Koterba takes second place.

 

#3

Rick McKee wins third place.

 

#4

Dave Granlund claims fourth place with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

 

#5

Steve Sack takes the five spot.

 

#6

Dave Granlund takes sixth place.

 

#7

Dick Wright nabs seventh place.

 

#8

John Darkow takes eighth place.

 

#9

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

 

#10

Monte Wolverton rounds out the list with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – May 29, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending May 29th, 2021.

Congratulations to Bill Day for drawing the #1 most reprinted cartoon of the week!  And a hearty congrats to Dick Wright in second place. And Kudos to the other cartoonists in the Top Ten: Pat Bagley, Jeff Koterba, Ed Wexler, Bruce Plante, John Darkow, Dave Granlund, Dave Whamond and RJ Matson.

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#1

Bill Day‘s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

#2

Dick Wright takes second place.

 

#3

Pat Bagley wins third place.

 

#4

Jeff Koterba claims fourth place with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

 

#5

Ed Wexler takes the five spot.

 

#6

Bruce Plante takes sixth place.

 

#7

John Darkow nabs seventh place.

 

#8

Dave Granlund takes eighth place.

 

#9

Dave Whamond takes ninth place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

 

#10

RJ Matson rounds out the list with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – May 23, 2020

Here are the ten most popular cartoons of the week (May 16 -May 23).

Congratulations to Steve Sack who has the most popular cartoon of the week and two cartoons in the Top Ten! Bob Englehart also impresses with two of the most popular cartoons. Kudos go to the other cartoonists on the list, Dave Granlund, Dave Fitzsimmons, Bruce Plante, Jeff Koterba, Bill Day and RJ Matson. Eight of the Top Ten cartoons were about the pandemic – that is the fewest coronavirus cartoons on the list in weeks! We’ve flattened the curve!

Our top ten is a measure of how many of our subscribing newspaper editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 63 cartoonists in our syndication package. 20% of the cartoonists get 80% of the sales and reprints, and most of the cartoonists never make it into the Top Ten.  If you don’t like the top ten, take it up with your local newspaper editor. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

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#1

The most popular cartoon of the week is by Steve Sack, who has TWO CARTOONS in the Top Ten this week.

 

#2

The second most popular cartoon of the week is by Dave Granlund.

 

#3

We have a tie for third place. This third most popular cartoon is by Dave Fitzsimmons.

 

#3

Tied for third place is this cartoon by Bruce Plante.

#5

We have another tie with both fifth place cartoons by Bob Englehart.

#5

Here’s the other cartoon that tied for fifth place, also by Bob Englehart.

#7

Here’s Steve Sack’s second cartoon in the Top Ten.

 

#8

The eighth most popular cartoon is from Jeff Koterba. 

#9

One of only two non-coronavirus cartoons in the Top Ten is by Bill Day.

 

#10

The other non-coronavirus cartoon in the Top Ten is from RJ Matson.

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Mr. Fish's Offensive Memorial Day Cartoons

One of my favorite cartoonists is Mr. Fish (Dwayne Booth). He doesn’t censor himself for taste at all. I appreciate Fish’s unwillingness to compromise, so I thought I would post a handful of his controversial Memorial Day cartoons that I would never have drawn myself.




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Veterans Day Cartoons to Warm an Editor’s Cold Heart

Veterans Day Cartoons to Warm an Editor’s Cold Heart

I run a syndicate, Caglecartoons.com, that distributes political cartoons to newspapers, and every year at this time we hear from editors complaining that there are few or no Veterans Day cartoons.

Some editors think of editorial cartoons as nothing more than little, topical jokes — this is troubling to political cartoonists who want to draw cartoons about solemn topics and bring a tear to the reader’s eye.

Unfortunately, editors for some of the biggest, most influential publications treat editorial cartoons as trivial jokes; a good example is Newsweek magazine, which likes to reprint cartoons that are like Jay Leno jokes, about a topic in the news but conveying no opinion that anyone would disagree with. Jay Leno jokes about the news all the time, and I have no idea what his personal opinions are.

Another wretched publication that diminishes editorial cartoons is The New York Times, which prints a weekly round-up of insipid cartoons under the title “Laugh Lines.” Don’t expect to see any thoughtful Veterans Day cartoons under the title “Laugh Lines.”

So, if a cartoonist wants to get his cartoons reprinted in The New York Times, Newsweek or some other big, national publication that likes funny, trivial jokes, he won’t be drawing any Veterans Day cartoons.

I have gathered a batch of some of my favorite Veterans Day cartoons from cartoonists who don’t care what New York Times and Newsweek editors think. These cartoons will bring a patriotic glow to even the dimmest editor as the cartoonists express their appreciation to our veterans.

Daryl Cagle is a political cartoonist and blogger for MSNBC.com; he is a past president of the National Cartoonists Society and his cartoons are syndicated to more than 850 newspapers, including the paper you are reading. Daryl’s books “The BIG Book of Campaign 2008 Political Cartoons” and “The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition” are available in bookstores now.