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Still More Musk! (Part 4)

Here’s yet another batch of Elon Musk cartoons from my continuing marathon of posting Elon Musk editorial cartoons on Twitter!  Hop onto the Musk/Twitter/CagleCartoon bandwagon by following me at: https://twitter.com/dcagle

Here’s our fourth batch of nasty, Musky cartoons.

Adam Zyglis

 

Randall Enos

 

 

John Darkow

 

Dick Wright


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Lameduck Leftovers – Top Ten of the Week

With the midterms over, all eyes are on the 2024 election, which as of now will feature a rematch between current President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rick McKee’s cartoon about political leftovers was hit with editors this week, nailing the sweet spot between Thanksgiving and topical.

Inflation continues to be a popular topic for cartoonists. At least gas prices have started to drop.

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

#1. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#4. Monte Wolverton, Cagle.com

 

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#6. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

 

#7. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#8. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#9. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#10. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

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Still More Musk (Part 3)

Here’s another installment of my marathon of posting Elon Musk editorial cartoons on Twitter!  Come follow me at: https://twitter.com/dcagle

Here’s the third batch of pungent, Musky cartoons.

Osmani Simanca

Kevin Siers

Dave Whamond

Frank Hansen

Manny Francisco

Emad Hajjaj


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Twitter Trouble: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

There’s been a lot of talk about people being disengaged from politics this election cycle, and this week’s most popular cartoons seems to back that up.

Despite midterm elections that saw Republicans struggle and Donald Trump put himself back into the spotlight, editors seemed more interested in Elon Musk and the chaos he’s created at Twitter. Between the issues at Twitter and layoffs at Amazon, it wasn’t the best week for some of the world’s top tech giants.

I also enjoyed Dave Whamond’s cartoon about a changing of the guard at Starbucks, from pumpkin spike lattes to eggnog lattes, which is probably a lot more relevant to people than how large the Republican majority will be in the House.

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

#1. Monte Wolverton, Cagle.com

 

#2. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#4. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#5. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#6. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#7. Randall Enos, Cagle.com

 

#8. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

 

#9. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#10. Dick Wright, Cagle.com


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Elon Musk Part One!

I am embarking on a marathon of posting Elon Musk editorial cartoons on Twitter!  We have about 200 of them.  Come follow me at: https://twitter.com/dcagle and you can see them all –or just tune in here and see them.

The rumor is that Twitter is no longer tolerant of celebrity parodies, but that may only apply to people who change their names to impersonate celebrities.  I hope that’s true.  I don’t think they will kill mainstream, syndicated editorial cartoons.  We’ll find out.

If it all goes well, I’ll buy one of those pretty, new blue checks that Twitter wouldn’t give me when I applied –but I can buy a blue check now for only $8/month!  What a deal!

I’m starting off with my own, barfy, Elon Musk/Twitter cartoon. Stacey tuned! 

Daryl Cagle

 

John Cole

Adam Zyglis

Patrick Chappatte

 

Dario Castillejos

 

Dave Whamond

 

Rivers

 

Pat Bagley


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Baby Formula Blues: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

This week, our top ten most reprinted cartoons covered a range of topics, including a troubling baby formula shortage and continued strain on our wallets at the gas pump.

Editors also liked Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about Twitter’s identity crisis and Chris Weyant’s clever take on the Supreme Court’s likely decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. And pollen is a perennial nuisance for everyone, cartoonist and editor alike.

#1

Dave Whamond took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Dave Granlund took second place.

#3

Jeff Koterba  took third place!

#4

Jeff Koterba nabbed 4th place too.

#5

Christopher Weyant claims the five-spot.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

#7

John Darkow also nabs seventh place.

#8

Christopher Weyant took 8th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#9

Randy Enos takes 9th place!

#10

Gary McCoy wraps it up at number ten.


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The Masks are Off: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

COVID-19 was on the minds of cartoonists this week, after a federal judge overruled the Biden administration’s mask mandate on airplanes.

Cartoonists had a smorgasbord of topics to play with, including Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the right-wing attack on Disney, and a shortage of airline pilots creating havoc nationwide. It’s always something.

And here are the Top Ten …

#1

Chris Weyant took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Dave Granlund took second place.

#3

Monte Wolverton took third place with his first of two cartoons on the list.

#4

Randall Enos nabbed 4th place.

#5

Monte Wolverton claims the five-spot with his second of two cartoons in theTop Ten.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

#7

Dick Wright nabs seventh place.

#8

Adam Zyglis took 8th place.

#9

Adam Zyglis takes 9th place too!

#10

Rick McKee wraps it up at number ten.


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Elon Musk Buys Twitter!

Here are my favorite cartoons about Elon Musk buying Twitter!

By Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune …

 

By John Darkow of the Columbia Missourian …

 

By Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer …

 

By Jos Collignon from The Netherlands …

 

By Jeff Koterba from Nebraska …

 

By Paresh Nath from New Delhi, India …

 

By Rick McKee from Augusta Georgia …

 

By RJ Matson from Maine …

 

By Patrick Chappatte from Switzerland …

 

By Rayma Suprani from Miami, Florida and Venezuela …

 

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Social Media and Stifling Free Speech

Cartoon by the great Dario Castillejos from Oaxaca, Mexico

I wrote a syndicated newspaper column yesterday. Here it is.

While the mainstream media is rightfully focused on the second impeachment of President Trump and the assault on the Capitol, right wing media is obsessed with “Freedom of Speech.”

Right wing outlets are calling for action against the “censorship” of conservatives by big, liberal, tech companies after Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites banned President Trump, taking away his preferred megaphone. The radical social media platform Parler was shut down after Amazon refused to continue hosting the site.

I run a newspaper syndicate for editorial cartoons and columns. Half of America’s daily, paid-circulation newspapers subscribe to my service, which features about 75 political cartoonists and ten columnists. Sometimes I choose to “kill” a cartoon or column that I think is inappropriate, which often leads to an angry response from the creator about censorship and First Amendment rights. I always remind them that I have First Amendment rights too, and I can choose to syndicate whatever I want.

I also hear from cartoonists whom I don’t syndicate, demanding to be on my Web site as some kind of entitlement, claiming that I’m violating their rights by refusing to allow their voice to be heard. I also hear from cartoonists in nations with no press freedom about how their government censors their cartoons; they claim this is “just the same as in America” because there are editors here who kill cartoons, too.

Cartoonists don’t seem to understand that our First Amendment rights of free speech and a free press are protections only against censorship by the government, and they don’t give cartoonists a right to be reprinted in any publication or a right to avoid editors. Cartoonists don’t have the right to be syndicated, or to be reprinted in newspapers, and no one has the First Amendment right to force Twitter or Facebook to post their rants.

If I syndicate anything that violates the rights of third parties, I can be sued. Potential liability encourages people to act responsibly. President Trump wants to strike back at social media companies by repealing “Section 230,” which generally protects these companies from liability for third party content, treating the social media sites more like telephone companies that aren’t held responsible for what people say on their telephones.

Defenders of Section 230 argue that big tech can’t be expected to police the billions of posts on their sites. This is nonsense.

Social media sites may not be liable for user posts that libel or incite violence, but they are liable for copyright infringement, and there are millions of posts that violate copyrights, especially involving cartoons. Congress imposed rules on big tech in the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act” (DMCA) that created a procedure for copyright holders to demand that a hosting company remove infringing content within a short time period, and if they don’t, the hosting company can be sued.

As a cartoonist and syndicate guy, I’ve filed hundreds of these “DMCA notices,” and in every case the hosting company has followed the procedure properly and responded to take down the content before their deadline. Some people complain about abuses of the DMCA system, but the system works, and it proves that tech companies can comply with millions of demands from injured third parties.

Why should tech companies have liability protections for some kinds of third party content (libel or incitement to violence) and not for others (copyright infringement)? Big tech can and should be liable for any harm they do.

The Section 230 protections for big social media companies should be repealed. But that’s not really what conservatives want, because removing these protections will make the tech companies act even more responsibly, prompting them to remove even more voices from the far right.

Calls to repeal Section 230 have been diminishing as conservatives begin to see this irony, replaced by calls for big tech monopolies to be broken up, replaced by condemnations of “censorship,” and replaced by demands for “Free Speech” that use the same goofy logic I hear from cartoonists.


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Trump has COVID

Late last night we got the news that President Trump and First Lady Melania have tested positive for Coronavirus. Social media exploded with sarcasm and righteous indignation because of the president’s history of refusing to wear a mask, his super spreader, maskless rallies and his many statements diminishing the importance of the pandemic. The cartoons started coming in this morning – here is mine.

 

Here’s another one inspired by the laughter on social media, from our Dutch cartoonist, Jos Collignon.

This one is from David Fitzsimmons.

 

Here’s one from Bob Englehart.

 

And Dave Granlund.

 

This one is from Jeff Koterba.

 

Our conservative, Trump supporting cartoonist, Gary McCoy, almost never draws president Trump; this morning he made an exception.


Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, so do editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers, and along with them, our Cagle.com site, that our small, sinking syndicate largely supports, along with our fans.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – June 13, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (June 6-13, 2020). It is interesting to note that no drawings of President Trump have been among the most reprinted cartoons since one appeared in March. This was another week when cartoonists drew passionate cartoons criticizing the president that were ignored by editors. What cartoonists want to draw most is not what editors want to print. It is also rare that editors choose to print cartoons about Joe Biden. The reprint curve is steep with the most popular cartoons dominating the reprints and with most cartoons getting little ink. The foreign cartoonists were ignored by our subscribing, American editors again this week.

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 63 cartoonists in our syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

Congrats to Dave Whamond for drawing the most reprinted cartoon this week. Kudos to Rick McKee who benefitted from a tie for the #10 spot, squeaking in with an impressive three cartoons on the list (the Top Eleven this week, because of the tie). Jeff Koterba has two cartoons on the list and special congratulations go to Pat Bagley and Peter Kuper who make their first appearances in the Top Ten this week. Dave Granlund, Steve Sack and RJ Matson round out the list of most reprinted cartoons this week. Great work, gentlemen!


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#1

Congratulations to Dave Whamond who drew the #1 most reprinted cartoon this week.

 

#2

Pat Bagley was a close second with this cartoon.

 

#3

Dave Granlund takes third place in the Top Ten this week.

#4

Rick McKee is in a tie for 4th place –with himself.

#4

Rick McKee is here again in 4th place.

#6

Jeff Koterba of Omaha World-Herald claims the 6th place spot.

#7

RJ Matson is in 7th place.

#8

The New Yorker’s and Mad Magazine’s “Spy vs Spy” cartoonist, Peter Kuper, takes 8th place.

#9

Pulitzer winner, Steve Sackhas the 9th most popular cartoon.

#10

Here’s Rick McKee’s third cartoon on the most reprinted list!
        

#10

Jeff Koterba is in a tie for the #10 spot with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten (top eleven this week). Editors love Lincoln Memorial cartoons.

The Omaha World-Herald and Cagle cartoonist, Jeff Koterba, will be moderating a special event with Paris-based Oliver Gee, host of the popular podcast, The Earful Tower, and author of a new memoir, Paris on Air.

Originally from Australia, Oliver is a former journalist whose first assignment in Paris was to cover the Charlie Hebdo attack in 2015. He would eventually move to Paris and launch The Earful Tower, which was recently featured in The New York Times as one of the best podcasts to travel by ear.

For those Cagle cartoonists who have attended the annual humor salons in St. Just, and have hung out together in Paris, this event might scratch that itch to return to France. And even if you haven’t been to France, this event promises to be a fun time. Plus, hey, you’ll get to see our buddy Jeff on your computer screen!

Oh, and not to worry—it’ll be presented in English. Although there’s always a chance that Oliver will throw in a French phrase or two.

Sponsored by Alliance Française Omaha, this event is free and open to all anywhere in the world! You can also pre-order Oliver’s book, although it’s not necessary to buy one to attend the event, which will be presented via Zoom.
1pm-2pm CST in the United States
Sunday, June 28th

All you have to do, is register now for the free event here.


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Twitter Distraction

President Trump isn’t doing well in the polls. As the virus gets worse, Trump has silenced his coronavirus task force and has been looking for distractions to move the news away from harping on his virus failures as the death count passed 100,000.

Trump’s latest distraction has been Twitter, which finally bowed to criticism and put an innocuous link to more information, next to a tweet where Trump lied about voter fraud. This is raw meat for Trump’s base that doesn’t like those rich, liberal, San Francisco social media companies. Trump’s Executive Order against Twitter is inconsequential, but his deception lured the media and lots of the cartoonists into taking Trump’s bait, drawing non-coronavirus cartoons about Trump vs Twitter as the death toll passed a milestone. Here’s my cartoon.


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Daryl Cagle

Here are a selection of five Trump vs Twitter cartoons drawn today and yesterday …


John Darkow


Kevin Siers


Dave Granlund


Bart van Leeuwen


This cartoon is by Stephane Peray, who draws as “Stephff” in Thailand (internationally, cartoonists prefer to use only one name, like Cher, Madonna, Lassie or Flipper). Stephff is a long time contributor to our little syndicate; he used to have a thriving freelance business drawing cartoons for newspapers around the world. Now Stephff has given up editorial cartooning because all of his papers have dropped his cartoons as a cost cutting measure. I was actually surprised to see that Stephff uploaded this new one today, just for us. The newly accelerated decline of newspapers, and by extension, editorial cartoons, is a grim, worldwide phenomenon. Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, and our editorial cartoonists need your support to stave off the death of our art form.

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