Recession Rumblings – Top 10, August 4th, 2022

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 4, 2022

Are we in a recession or not? Experts have been debating what’s going on after figures released last week showed that while the U.S. economy shrank for the second straight quarter, job growth continues to be strong.

Of course, things are falling along political lines – Republicans say we are, Democrats say we’re not. Does everything have to be about politics?

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

#1. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

#2. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#3. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

#4. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#5. Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer

#6. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#7. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

#8. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

#9. Rivers, Cagle.com

#10. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

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Tags bear market, Bill Russell, climate change, covid, economy, forward party, inflation reduction act, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kirsten Sinema, Monkeypox, polls, recession, school shootings, stocks, storm, Uncle Sam

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – September 4th, 2021

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 5, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending September 4th, 2021. Kudos to Dave Granlund who dominated the week in overall reprints, and who claimed the most popular cartoon, along with three cartoons in the Top Ten. (Actually it is the Top Eleven because of a tie for 10th place).

Jeff Koterba who dominated last week, had two cartoons on the Top Ten, as did John Darkow. The most poplar topic was Labor Day.

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 Granlund took the #1 spot and has three cartoons in the Top Ten!

#2

Bob Englehart shares a tie for second place.

#2

Jeff Koterba also ties for second place.

#4

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

#5

Dave Granlund takes the five spot with his third Top Ten cartoon this week.

#6

John Darkow takes 6th place.

#7

Steve Sack shares 7th place.

#7

Kevin Siers shares a tie for 7th place.

#9

Jeff Koterba ties for 9th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Dick Wright share tenth place.

#10

Jeff Koterba wraps it up, sharing tenth place, in what is really a Top Eleven this week.

Tags Afghanistan Evacuation, coronavirus, COVID-19, fires, Flooding, floods, jobs, Labor Day, New York City, pandemic, rain, Statue of Liberty, storm, unemployment, unvaccinated, vaccine

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Trump Book Storm

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 17, 2020

Here’s my new cartoon about the storm of books that criticize president Trump. There have been lots of Trump bashing books and lots of cartoons about lots of Trump bashing books.

Here are some of my recent favorites from the CagleCartoonists, about the many Trump bashing books. The first one is by our newest CagleCartoonist, Pat Byrnes.

This one is by Steve Sack.

The next one is by Dave Whamond.

This one is by Adam Zyglis.

… and Bill Day …

… and Peter Kuper.

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Tags bob woodward, book storm, books, campaign 2020, cloud, Disloyal, donald trump, John Bolton, Mary L. Trump, Michael Cohen, Michael Wolff, Omarosa, pesident, Rage, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, storm, Too Much-Never Enough

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Texas Disaster

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 30, 2017

Back when I was a local cartoonist for the now-defunct Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, there was a disaster where a negligent captain allowed his submarine to be controlled by a stupid celebrity who rammed into a Japanese High School fishing boat, killing and failing to rescue many of the kids. I reacted with cartoons strongly criticizing the Navy and the captain of the sub – but I missed the mark. The paper had a second cartoonist, Dick Adair who drew a memorial cartoon with leis floating on the water. Dick’s cartoon was better.

When a disaster first strikes, and people die, mourning should come first. I was thinking about that with the Texas floods as my colleagues were drawing gags and cartoons criticizing Trump’s visit to the scene, or cartoons championing the first responders, I thought I should take a step back and remember Dick Adair’s cartooning wisdom with a flowers on the water memorial cartoon, this time including a cowboy hat to signify Texas. Maybe readers and editors are in the mood for gags, but I’m in more of a somber, sympathetic mood.

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California’s “Drought”

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 13, 2017

We live with a never-ending drought in California – especially in Santa Barbara where I was just hit by a whopping $906.15 water bill for December from my local Montecito Water District. The bill included a $480.00 penalty, a $144.90 “surcharge” and a $44.59 “meter service charge.” The charge for the actual water used was $236.66. I have no idea why I had a higher reading on the meter last month. I’m guessing that the gardener may have left my low-flow sprinklers running – but that is just a guess.

I might try appealing the bill, but I’m allowed to appeal only the $480.00 penalty portion of the bill and the water district charges a non-refundable fee of over $200.00 to appeal a penalty (they tell me my appeal would be rejected because I can’t explain the high meter reading).

In “drought stricken” California we live with the random threat of crazy water bills bloated by penalties, along with our “gold is the new green” lawns. No amount of rain seems to impact the drought perception. Our local reservoir, Lake Cachuma, remains at alarmingly low levels compared to other lakes because it isn’t much of a lake; it is sustained with deliveries of water from the California state water system, which have been curtailed because of the drought. Other, better planned California reservoirs have been overflowing from the recent storms. As much as I hate to say it, I have to agree with Donald Trump that the California drought is more a matter of poor planning and poor priorities.

Nothing will turn a liberal cartoonist into a conservative like receiving a $906.15 water bill when the whole state is flooded.

Tags atmospheric river, bear, california, climate change, drought, flag, flood, Montecito Water District, rain, santa barbara, storm, weather

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California Rain

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date February 27, 2014

Tags bear, california, Cartoons, mud, rain, slide, storm

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Fox News Schadenfreude

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 8, 2012

I watched Fox News while I worked, all day yesterday. Oh! Such sore losers. There is so much bitterness; so many recriminations. It was delightful, and it inspired the cartoon below. Here is my rough sketch, somehow, the rough sketch always looks the best.

Then I drew it up as the line art that most people will see in their newspapers that still print in black and white. I printed out a map of the continental United States and traced it for the storm cloud.