Redistricting/Gerrymandering fight: Top ten cartoons!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 24, 2025

What do people want to read about in the waining days of summer? Gerrymandering.

In Texas, at the behest of Donald Trump, Republicans pushed through a controversial new election map expected to cost five Democrats in Congress their seats during next year’s midterm elections. Democrats in California responded by creating their own map that would flip five Republican congressional seats, a move which will be decided by voters during a special election in November.

This race to the bottom was the target of Monte Wolverton’s cartoon, our most-reprinted this week. I also liked Dave Whamond’s popular cartoon comparing new congressional maps to a Jackson Pollock painting.

With everything else going on, how much do American’s care? Are they even checked in? As Chris Weyant summed up well in his new back-to-school cartoon, the kids are happy “just to get a break from the news cycle.”

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

#1. Monte Wolverton

#2. John Darkow

CagleCast Episode 70 features 113 hard-hitting Jeffrey Epstein and Trump-themed cartoons! Showcasing the sharp wit of top cartoonists Dave Whamond, Rick McKee, Steve Sack, Pat Byrnes and dozens more. From Epstein conspiracy theories to political commentary, these cartoons are a pedophile nightmare for Trump fans! Come look!

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Taylor Jones

#8. John Cole

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. Dave Granlund

Subscribe to our FREE Daily Email Newsletter Here!

Be a Hero and support Cagle.com! We need you!

Visit Cagle.com/heroes

Blog Cartoons Columns Editors Desk Fan Club Followers News Newsletter Premium Syndicate Top 10 Videos

Tariff time: Top ten cartoons of the week

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 9, 2025

Trump’s tariffs are back on, with dozens of key trading partners being slapped this week with so-called “reciprocal” tariffs Trump may or may not walk back.

I liked John Darkow’s cartoon, which mixed the furor of tariffs with wildfire smoke from Canada clouding our economic future. John Koterba also had a funny tariff cartoon involving a mom rushing to buy back to school supplies before prices go up.

But our most popular cartoon of the week, drawn by Chris Weyant, tackled the looming presence of AI by quoting philosopher René Descartes. I recall he also had another famous line about doubt being the origin of wisdom, something all these tech cheerleaders seem to be lacking.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. John Darkow

#3. Jeff Koterba

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Jeff Koterba

#6. Bruce Plante

#7. John Darkow

#8. Gary McCoy

#9. John Darkow

#10. Margolis & Cox

Subscribe to our FREE Daily Email Newsletter Here!

Be a Hero and support Cagle.com! We need you!

Visit Cagle.com/heroes

Tags Artificial Intelligence, back to school, big bird, editorial cartoons, epstein files, NPR, political cartoons, twister

Blog Editors Desk Fan Club Followers Syndicate Top 10

Catching up! Back to School Blues Top Ten!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 18, 2024

Wow! Two Top Ten Catoons fo the Week in two days! Well … that’s because I was traveling and I’m back now and slowly catching up. This one is the latest Top Ten, for last week! Really! And I’ll get a new podcast up very soon – I promise!

Parents are normally ecstatic when it’s time for their children to shuffle back to school. But thanks to inflation, the price of just about everything remains high, including that cost of school supplies.

Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about budgeting for back-to-school was our most-reprinted cartoon of the week. Bob Englehart’s cartoon about the whole thing being a scam was also popular with editors.

As far as politics are concerned, I chuckled at Chris Weyant’s cartoon about the annoying back-and-forth over crowd sizes, while Dick Wright dinged Kamala Harris for copying Donald Trump’s plan to make tips tax free.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

#2. Bob Englehart

#3. Randal Enos

#4. John Darkow

#5. Dick Wright

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. John Darkow

#9. Dick Wright

#10. Dave Granlund

Please support our Cagle.com site!

Become a Cagle.com HERO!

Tags back to school, children, education, kids

Blog Syndicate Top 10

Back to School Top Ten Cartoons!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 27, 2023

Is it that time of year already?

Back to school cartoons were popular with editors this week. I chuckled at Bruce Plante’s cartoon juxtaposing a frowning kid with a smiling parent, a sentiment I’m sure many families relate to after spending the entire summer with their children.

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

#1. Dave Granlund

See our new Caglecast here on YouTube.com/@caglecast and please subscribe and like!

Left vs Right Cartoons – Political Cartoonists Bump Heads! Watch our new podcast!

#2. Bruce Plante

#3. Rick McKee

#4. Gary McCoy

#5. John Darkow

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. Rick McKee

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. Rick McKee

Please support our Cagle.com site!

Become a Cagle.com HERO!

Tags back to school, Biden, economy, GOP Debate, most popular, political cartoons, trump

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Back to School – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 19, 2022

Kids are returning to school, and cartoonists sharpened their pencils this week on the many issues districts across the country face, whether it’s a shortage of teachers or out-of-control supply costs due to inflation.

There was also that FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo residence in Florida. While editors reprinted a number of our cartoons on the incident, just one cartoon featuring Trump made it onto our top ten list. Editors don’t like running Trump cartoons nearly as much as cartoonists love drawing them.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#2. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missouran

#4. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

#5. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

#7. John Darkow, Columbia Missouran

#8. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

#9. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

Our weekly Top Ten is now a newspaper column! Subscribing editors can find it at CagleCartoons.com with download links to grab the cartoons in high resolution.

Want to get EVERY new CagleCartoon from our 62 syndicated newspaper editorial cartoonists, in your email box every day? Just become a Cagle.com HERO and you get the exclusive daily emails of ALL THE CARTOONS! See all the cartoons before the newspapers print them and never miss a cartoon!

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Where are the Teachers? Top Ten of the Week

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 12, 2022

For the first time in a while, inflation and gas prices weren’t the top concerns among the nation’s cartoonists this week. Instead, editors plucked cartoons on topics like the country’s teacher shortage and a heat wave that scorched much of the country.

China, Brittney Griner, a surprising abortion vote in Kansas – plenty of subjects made it to the drawing board this week. Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons:

#1. Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer

#2. Rivers, Cagle.com

#3. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

#4. Randall Enos, Cagle.com

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#6. Dick Wright, Cagle.com

#7. Rivers, Cagle.com

#8. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

#9. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#10. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

Our weekly Top Ten is now a newspaper column! Subscribing editors can find it at CagleCartoons.com with download links to grab the cartoons in high resolution.

Tags airline delays, Alex Jones, back to school, Britney Griner, China, climate change, global warming, heat wave, inflation reduction act, irs, Kansas abortion, Russia, teacher shortage, travel

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Rick McKee’s 2020 Top Ten

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 3, 2021

Here are Rick McKee’s Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers. Rick is impressive and prolific, he worked for many years as the editorial cartoonist for the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, he has taken over the classic comic panel “Pluggers” and he also draws a new newspaper comic strip, “Mt. Pleasant.”

We keep statistics on how many editors, who subscribe to our syndicate service at CagleCartoons.com, download each cartoon. Over the next few days I’ll post Top Ten cartoons from some of our other CagleCartoonists! See Rick’s cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!

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, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

Tags back to school, charlie brown, Christmas, coronavirus, Defund the Police, Election 2012, Facebook friends, Football, Halloween, impeachment, king kong, lucy, masks, minneapolis police department, mistletoe, peanust, senate, Social Distancing

Blog Newsletter Syndicate

Daryl’s 2020 Top Ten

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date December 25, 2020

Here are my Top Ten cartoons of the year that were most reprinted in newspapers. We keep statistics on how many editors, who subscribe to our syndicate service at CagleCartoons.com, download each cartoon. Over the next few days I’ll post Top Ten cartoons from some of our other CagleCartoonists – for today, here are mine! See my cartoon archive on Cagle.com

Merry Christmas!

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes.

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – September 26, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 26, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (September 19th through September 26th, 2020).

Three of the top cartoons are about the pandemic, five are about Justice Ginsburg and her Supreme Court seat.

Congratulations to Dave Whamond for taking the #1 spot, and to Dave Granlund at #2. The top two cartoons outpaced the pack by a wide margin this week.

Kudos to Steve Sack and Jeff Koterba who each have two cartoons in the Top Ten. And congrats to the other cartoonists who made our list of the cartoons most published in newspapers this week, Pat Bagley, Rick McKee, John Darkow – and me.

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.

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.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes. We need you! Don’t let the cartoons die!

#1

Dave Whamond is in first place with school during the pandemic continuing to be the favorite topic for editors.

#2

Dave Granlund follows with the #2 cartoon, also about kids and the pandemic.

#3

Jeff Koterba takes 3rd place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#4

I nabbed fourth place. See the Daryl Cagle archive here.

#5

Pat Bagley takes 5th place with the only cartoon about the election.

#6

Rick McKee took 6th place with the second of five cartoons in the Top Ten about Justice Ginsburg and her Supreme Court.

#7

Seventh place goes to John Darkow with this somber RBG cartoon.

#8

Eighth place goes to Steve Sack with the first of his two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#9

Jeff Koterba shares a tie for 9th place with his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#9

Steve Sack wraps up the list, tied for 9th place, with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

Please forward this to your friends – tell them our Cagle.com email newsletters are FREE and FUN! They can join the newsletter list at Cagle.com/subscribe.

Tags back to school, cdc, COVID-19, COVID19, Halloween, Mail in Voting, memorial, Mitch McConnell, nominee, nuclear option, online learning, pandemic, remote learning, rose colored glasses, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seat, supreme court, Zoom

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – September 5, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date September 5, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (August 29th through September 5th, 2020). As usual, no drawings of president Trump were among the most popular with newspaper editors. Seven of the cartoons are light, life during the pandemic cartoons. Three are “back to school during the pandemic” cartoons, which is still the most popular topic with editors.

Rick McKee runs away with the week, claiming the #1, #4 and #10 spots! I’m impressed! Dave Granlund also had a great week taking #2 and #7. Congrats to Rick and Dave!

Kudos to the other cartoonists who made the Top Ten most reprinted list this week, Kevin Siers, Ed Wexler, Dave Whamond, Bruce Plante, and Jeff Koterba.

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.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes. We need you! Don’t let the cartoons die!

#1

Rick McKee dominated the week with this very popular #1 cartoon, along with two more in the Top Ten.

#2

This second place cartoon by Dave Granlund also stood out from the pack with well more reprints than the rest. Dave has two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#3

Kevin Siers takes 3rd place with a “back to school” during the pandemic cartoon, a topic that remains the most popular with newspaper editors.

#4

Rick McKee also takes 4th place, with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#5

Ed Wexler takes 5th place – editors crave “everyday life during the pandemic” cartoons.

#6

Dave Whamond takes 6th place with a “back to school during the pandemic” cartoon.

#7

Dave Granlund nabs 7th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Bruce Plante takes 8th place with a “back to school during the pandemic” cartoon.

#9

Jeff Koterba is tied for 9th place.

#9

Rick McKee shares a tie for 9th place, rounding out the Top Ten with his third cartoon. Quite a week for Rick!

Please forward this to your friends – tell them our Cagle.com email newsletters are FREE and FUN! They can join the newsletter list at Cagle.com/subscribe.

Tags back to school, burning cities, college, COVID-19, COVID19, Democrats, digital divide, education, election meddling, facebook, Labor Day, nancy pelosi, pandemic, remote learning, Russia, vote tampering

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – August 22, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 22, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (August 15th through August 22nd, 2020). As usual, no drawings of president Trump were among the most popular with newspaper editors. No cartoons about the Democratic Convention, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris got much ink. Steve Bannon’s arrest garnered some cartoons but got few reprints. Foreign cartoonists drawing about Belarus and the poisoning of a top Russian dissident were ignored by editors.

The top performing cartoons this week are a clear lesson in what editors want now: light cartoons about the tough times Americans live in. There are four pandemic/back-to-school cartoons on the list this week, which remains the most popular topic with editors, as it has been for the past three months.

The CagleCartoonists who are usually the most reprinted were again the most reprinted this week. Congratulations to the four cartoonists who each have two cartoons in the Top Ten, Dave Whamond (#1 and #8), Jeff Koterba (#2 and #4), Steve Sack (#5 and #9) and Dave Granlund (#5 and #7). And kudos to the two other cartoonists who made the most reprinted list this week, John Darkow and Adam Zyglis!

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 62 cartoonists in our syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

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.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes. We need you! Don’t let the cartoons die!

#1

Congratulations to Dave Whamond who drew the #1 most reprinted cartoon this week, the first of Dave’s two cartoons in the Top Ten!

#2

Jeff Koterba takes second place with the first of two cartoons in the Top Ten, and the best performance by a CagleCartoonist this week for overall reprints.

#3

John Darkow takes 3rd place.

#4

Jeff Koterba takes 4th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#5

Dave Granlund ties for 5th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#5

Steve Sack ties for 5th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#7

Dave Granlund snags 7th place with his second of two cartoons on the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Whamond takes 8th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#9

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

#10

Adam Zyglis claims the ten spot!

Please forward this to your friends – tell them our Cagle.com email newsletters are FREE and FUN! They can join the newsletter list at Cagle.com/subscribe.

Tags back to school, Best, Cartoons, coronavirus, editorial cartoons, Magic 8 Ball, most popular, most reprinted, pandemic, PoliticalCartoons

Blog Newsletter Syndicate Top 10

Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – August 15, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 15, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (August 8th through August 15th, 2020). As usual, cartoonists drew president Trump in many cartoons, but no drawings of Trump were among the most popular with newspaper editors.

Dave Granlund is on top this week with the #1 and #6 cartoons! Dave Whamond also has an impressive showing with two cartoons in the Top Ten.

Kudos to the other six CagleCartoonists with the most reprinted cartoons this week: John Darkow, Rick McKee, Ed Wexler, Randy Enos, Jeff Koterba and Chris Weyant!

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.

The world needs political cartoonists more now than ever. Please consider supporting Cagle.com and visit Cagle.com/heroes. We need you! Don’t let the cartoons die!

#1

Congratulations to Dave Granlund who drew the #1 most reprinted cartoon this week, the first of two cartoons in the Top Ten!

#2

Chris Weyant takes second place with one of the early Kamala Harris cartoons that editors were looking for.

#3

Jeff Koterba, who is on vacation, takes 3rd place with this cartoon that he drew and submitted in advance.

#4

Congratulations to John Darkow who snags 4th place.

#5

Dave Whamond claims 4th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#6

Congratulations yet again to Dave Granlund for his second of two cartoons in the Top Ten. This was the first, new Kamala Harris cartoon posted after see selection as Biden’s VP nominee, something that editors were eager to see.

#6

Kudos to Ed Wexler who is tied for #6 with his first “couple watching TV” cartoon. I warned Ed that “couples watching TV” cartoons are addictive and may consume him (as happened to me).

#8

I’m happy to see my buddy Randy Enos on the Top Ten this week!

#9

Dave Whamond takes the #9 spot with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Rick McKee and Vladimir Putin take the ten spot!

Please forward this to your friends – tell them our Cagle.com email newsletters are FREE and FUN! They can join the newsletter list at Cagle.com/subscribe.

Tags Antisocial distancing, back to school, college football, COVID19, Democrats, Football, Joe Biden, Kamala Harri, Medicare Cartoons, nominee, pandemic, quarantine, Social Securit, Sputnik 5, Sputnik V, vaccine, vide president, Vladimir Putin

Fresh, Fierce ICE Cartoons – Brutal Abuses, Beatings & Rampant Hypocrisy!

Best, Newest ICE Cartoons –Abuses Beatings and Hypocrisy!

The BEST new ICE cartoons –And 131 MORE!

Big Freeze and ICE: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Rummaging Through My Drawers: 50 Years of Self-Portraits and Cartoonist Life Stories

No Invasion for Greenland: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

ICE Raids and a New Steve Sack Cartoon!

Dangerous data centers: Top ten cartoons of the week

A Classy Conservative in a Quirky Syndicate: Remembering Michael Reagan

Holiday Season – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

A.I. Anxieties: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Christmas Rush: Top ten cartoons of the week

Thanksgiving tariffs: Top ten cartoons of the week

Democrats cave: Top ten cartoons of the week

No One’s Listening: Top 10 Must-See Political Cartoons Exposing the Government Shutdown Chaos!

California’s Proposition 50 and Gerrymandering!