Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – January 22nd, 2022

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 22, 2022

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending January 22nd, 2022. Congratulations to John Darkow who drew the #1 cartoon and has two cartoons in the Top Ten. And kudos to Dave Whamond who has two cartoons in the Top Ten and was our most reprinted cartoonist of the week.

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

John Darkow took the #1 spot with the first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#2

Dave Whamond takes second place, also with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Dave Granlund took third place.

#4

Steve Sack took 4th place with his second cartoon on the Top Ten..

#5

Guy Parsons also claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Whamond came in sixth with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place.

#8

Dick Wright took 8th place.

#9

John Darkow takes 9th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Kevin Siers wraps it up at number ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – December 5th, 2021

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date December 5, 2021

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

This was a very impressive week for Dave Whamond who has the #1 cartoon of the week and three cartoons in the Top Ten. Dave Granlund also had a strong week with three cartoons in the Top Ten! John Darkow came in just a nose behind Dave and Dave, with the #2 cartoon and two cartoons in the Top Ten.

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#1

Dave Whamond took the #1 spot and was our most reprinted cartoonist of the week.

#2

John Darkow placed second with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Dave Whamond nabbed third place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#4

Dave Granlund took 4th place with the first of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Kevin Siers claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Granlund came in sixth with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

Dave Granlund nabs seventh place with this third of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#8

John Darkow took 8th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#9

Dave Whamond takes 9th place with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Dick Wright wraps it up at number ten!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – June 26, 2021

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 27, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending June 26th, 2021.

This was a great week for Jeff Koterba, who took the #1 spot by a big margin and has an impressive three cartoons in the Top Ten. Jeff was also the most reprinted cartoonist of the week overall.

And congrats to Dick Wright, Steve Sack and Dave Whamond who each have two cartoons in the Top Ten. And kudos to Dave Granlund who also made the list after an unbelievable performance last week.

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#1

Jeff Koterba‘s cartoon was most popular with editors last week!

#2

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

#3

Jeff Koterba wins third place with his second of an incredible THREE cartoons in the Top Ten.

#4

Dick Wright claims fourth place with his first of two cartoons on the most reprinted list.

#5

Jeff Koterba takes the five spot with his THIRD cartoon in the Top Ten this week.

#6

Dick Wright takes sixth place with his second cartoon on the list.

#7

Steve Sack nabs seventh place with his first of two cartoons on the list.

#8

Dave Granlund takes eighth place following his dominant performance last week.

#9

Steve Sack takes ninth place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Dave Whamond places his second cartoon on the list at number ten.

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Trump and the Courts

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date December 11, 2020

Update 12/11/20 5:30pm: The Supreme Court just dismissed the Texas lawsuit. Good for them.

President Trump has been losing his lawsuits to overturn the election results. One last try is a desperate suit by the embattled Texas Attorney General, joined by Republican states and, as I’m posting this, 126 Republican congressmen. The Supreme Court is expected to decline to hear this latest atrocious lawsuit very soon, and that is the reason for my cartoon today – I’m anticipating a reasonable response from the Supreme Court.

I was flipping through my oldies and I found this SCOTUS gavel cartoon I drew back in 2000, showing Al Gore taking it on the head when the Supreme Court intervened to decide the election for George W. Bush. It seems like an appropriate image for today, presuming the court doesn’t make electoral trouble again.

Today I put Trump into that twenty year old drawing. Here’s the sketch.

I like drawing losers getting bashed with the gavel – sometimes the losers are sympathetic. Here is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals striking down gay marriage back in 2009.

Here are the four, gavel waving conservative justices of the Supreme Court, back in 2013, when I thought they were about to ban gay marriage again – they surprised me and did the right thing that time.

We can’t ever be sure that the courts will do the right thing, but most of the time they do. Gotta hope for the best.

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Election in the Courts

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 6, 2020

Trump and his minions are scrambling for a way to throw the election into the courts with claims of widespread fraud.

This is a revised version of a cartoon that I drew earlier when Justice Antonin Scalia died.

This wouldn’t be the first time for the Supreme Court to decide to give the presidential election of a Republican. Back in 2000 the decision came as a blow to Al Gore.

The 5-4 court decision was pretty outrageous. This could be the second time a partisan court decides to stop a vote count (or re-count) and decide the winner, if Trump has his way.

At that time I was a regular, local, daily cartoonist for Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser newspaper in Hawaii. On the day that the Supreme Court decided to make George W. Bush president, I drew this cartoon that my newspaper refused to print.

I defaced the justices who voted to make George W. Bush president. I was pretty angry that day.

Anything can happen. It already has.

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Too Close to Call!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 4, 2020

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, needs your support! America needs editorial cartoonists now more than ever! Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes. Our newspaper clients are in general decline and are crashing with the pandemic. Cartoonists need you now more than ever!

This morning the election is undecided, with President Trump claiming victory and the Biden campaign confident of victory. The lawsuits are starting and the cartoonists are drawing! Here are the first cartoons about our election purgatory. I expect lots of great cartoons to keep coming in – keep your eyes on Cagle.com!

Martin “Shooty” Sutovec

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Election Day!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 3, 2020

Here are my newest favorite Election Day cartoons!

By Dave Fitzsimmons

Gary McCoy

Ed Wexler

Dave Whamond

RJ Matson

Kevin Siers

John Darkow

Here’s one of my oldies that never gets old.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 17, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 17, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (October 10th, through October 17th, 2020). As usual, no drawings of President Trump were popular with newspaper editors. Typically 20% of the cartoons get 80% of the reprints; this week it is more like 10% of the cartoons getting 90% of the reprints as less popular cartoons got little or no ink and editors flocked to the same cartoons.

My own cartoon from last Sunday was #1 this week, by a big margin; in fact, it is the most reprinted cartoon since we starting keeping comparative download stats from subscribing newspaper editors at the beginning of the year.

Dave Whamond also stood well above the crowd with a #2 cartoon that would have been a strong #1 in any other week. Dave and I both had two cartoons on the Top Ten this week. Congratulations to the other cartoonists who made the unusually hot Top Ten this week, Dave Fitzsimmons, Steve Sack, Dave Granlund, Rick McKee, Kevin Siers and RJ Matson.

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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#1

My own cartoon nabbed first place this week (and this year, so far), outpacing the pack by a big margin. See the Daryl Cagle archive.

#2

Dave Whamond had a #2 cartoon that was unusually popular with editors; it is Dave’s first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Dave Fitzsimmons takes 3rd place. It looks like “Halloween in these crazy times” is what editors want.

#4

Dave Whamond takes 4th place with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

RJ Matson nabs 5th place as Republicans get closer to killing Obamacare.

#6

My own “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon is tied for 6th place. See the Daryl Cagle archive.

#6

Rick McKee shares 6th place with his “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon.

#8

Dave Granlund takes 8th place with another “Halloween in these crazy times” cartoon.

#9

Steve Sack takes 9th place.

#10

And Kevin Siers takes the ten spot with a COVID “these crazy times” cartoon.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 3, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 3, 2020

Correction 10/14/20: I have to apologize for making an error in the Top Ten for this week, and it was a big error. John Darkow actually had both the #1 and #2 cartoons of the week, and both by a large margin – those darn stats! I have added the missing top cartoon as a second #1 cartoon, with a special congratulations to John for the incredible feat of capping the list with two mega-popular cartoons!

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (September 23rd through October 3rd, 2020). The news about President Trump contracting COVID generated a lot of cartoons on Friday, but none of them made the Top Ten. There was a lot of criticism of Trump’s overly aggressive debate performance, but not in the cartoons that editors chose to publish about the debate.

Congratulations to John Darkow for his #1 cartoon that outpaced the pack by a wide margin this week. Dave Granlund also had a great week with two cartoons on the list. Dave Whamond and Jeff Koterba continued their long streaks of Top Ten appearances. We had an unusual three way tie for ninth place so there are eleven cartoons on the list this week.

Kudos to the other cartoonists who made our list of the cartoons most published in newspapers this week, Steve Sack, Rick McKee, Gary McCoy, Randy Enos – and me.

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CORRECTED 10/14/20: Here is the correction, added as John’s second #1 cartoon of the week. John Darkow has TWO cartoons in first place, both outpacing the pack by a big margin.

#1

John Darkow is in first place, outpacing the pack by a big margin.

#2

Dave Whamond follows with the #2 cartoon. Editors were interested only in debate cartoons that were even handed in their criticism of Trump and Biden.

#3

Steve Sack takes 3rd place. The pandemic’s effect on sports is a favorite topic for editors.

#4

Dave Granlund had a strong week with two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Rick McKee takes 5th place with the only cartoon about the Supreme Court fight.

#6

I nabbed 6th place. The news cycle didn’t leave much space for the cartoons about Trump’s taxes. See my Daryl Cagle archive here..

#7

Dave Granlund’s even handed debate cartoon is his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

Eighth place goes to Jeff Koterba with another even handed debate cartoon.

#9

Randy Enos shares a three way tie for 9th place with a pandemic at school cartoon, which has been the favorite topic of editors for months.

#9

Here is the first of two, conservative Gary McCoy cartoons that are tied for 9th place.

#9

Here is Gary McCoy’s second cartoon that is tied for 9th place.

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RBG RIP

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 20, 2020

I was saddened to hear of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. She died at a bad time for editorial cartoons, late on Friday when the cartoonists are off and the newspapers had been put to bed for the weekend – and she died at an even worse time for the nation as her pivotal, conservative successor is likely to be confirmed by a hypocritical, lame duck, Republican Senate. Here’s my cartoon.

Here are the first RBG obit cartoons to come in.

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SCOTUS Sex Surprise

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 17, 2020

The Supreme Court surprised everyone by interpreting the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination in employment for LGTBQ employees. The decision was written Justice Gorsuch, who was appointed to the court by president Trump. This is what Gorsuch wrote:

In Title VII, Congress outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.

Well, hot diggity! Our Cagle Cartoonists celebrate below!

Steve Sack

John Darkow

Bill Day

Joe Heller

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R.J. Matson

John Cole

Dave Granlund

Adam Zyglis

J.D. Crowe

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Siers Decade!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 1, 2020

Kevin Siers’ favorite cartoons of the past decade are below! Kevin is the staff cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. See Kevin’s favorite cartoons of the decade on USA Today, where you can click on each cartoon and see it blown up to fill the screen with a pretty, high-resolution image. See the complete archive of Kevin’s editorial cartoons here.

Look at our other, great collections of Cartoon Favorites of the Decade, selected by the artists.

Pat Bagley Decade!
Nate Beeler Decade!
Daryl Cagle Decade!
Patrick Chappatte Decade!
John Cole Decade!
John Darkow Decade!
Bill Day Decade!
Sean Delonas Decade!
Bob Englehart Decade!
Randall Enos Decade!
Dave Granlund Decade!
Taylor Jones Decade!
Mike Keefe Decade!
Peter Kuper Decade!
Jeff Koterba Decade!
RJ Matson Decade!
Gary McCoy Decade!
Rick McKee Decade!
Milt Priggee Decade!
Bruce Plante Decade!
Steve Sack Decade!
Bill Schorr Decade!
Kevin Siers Decade!
Ed Wexler Decade!
Chris Weyant Decade!
Adam Zyglis Decade!

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