This was a crazy election week! Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (October 31st through November 7th 2020). Newspaper editors found lots of cartoons they liked this week and the usage curve was flattened. Many cartoons were bunched together in the stats, with each getting lots of reprints – very different from recent weeks when editors all reprinted the same, few cartoons. Editors found a lot to like this week.
We have a crazy, improbable, four way tie for first place, with each first place cartoon getting about half as many reprints as last week’s #1 cartoon. Every Top Ten cartoon this week was about the election but, as usual, none of the most reprinted cartoons included drawings of Trump or Biden. This is the first week for many months where no coronavirus cartoons made the Top Ten.
Congrats to Jeff Koterba who has two cartoons on the list, including one cartoon tied for #1. Two of my own cartoons tied for #1. Kudos to Rick McKee who also shares the four-way tie for #1 this week.
I was pleased to see our new CagleCartoonist, Pat Byrnes, made the Top Ten list this week. Congratulations to the other cartoonists with the most reprinted cartoons this week: RJ Matson, Dave Granlund, John Darkow and Pat Bagley.
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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Jeff Koterba shares a four-way tie for the most reprinted cartoon of the week.
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Rick McKee also shares the tie for first place.
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My own “call to vote” cartoon from last Saturday was intended to run on election day, last Tuesday.
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My cartoon from after Election Day also shares the four-way tie for #1.
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Our newest CagleCartoonist, Pat Byrnes makes his debut in the Top Ten with this popular cartoon.
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RJ Matson takes 6th place with this Election Day cartoon.
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Dave Granlund nabs 7th place with this post-Election Day cartoon.
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John Darkow takes 8th place.
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Pat Bagley nabs 9th place with this nice “call to vote” cartoon.
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Jeff Koterba wraps up the Top Ten with this cartoon.
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People always say, “Daryl, with this presidential election you must be having so much fun! And you must be soon busy!” Actually, newspapers don’t use any more editorial cartoon when times are fun, so it never gets busier. And having the campaign dominate the news for a year doesn’t make a cartoonist’s life more fun. A little variety adds spice.
