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Tariff time: Top ten cartoons of the week

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

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#3. Jeff Koterba

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Jeff Koterba

#6. Bruce Plante

#7. John Darkow

#8. Gary McCoy

#9. John Darkow

#10. Margolis & Cox

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Colbert and Coldplay: Top ten cartoons of the week

I was at the San Diego Comic Con all last week so I regret that I’m a little late with last week’s Top Ten –better late than never!

Last week was a busy week in the media world. Stephen Colbert was fired by CBS, Republicans defunded NPR and PBS, and the new Superman movie faced headwinds across the globe, which its director attributed to “anti-American sentiment around the world” due to Trump.  (Notice that, as usual, there are no Trump cartoons in the Top Ten –editors just don’t want Trump cartoons, and these are the cartoons that editors reprinted the most.)

John Darkow’s cartoon about Superman being arrested by ICE was one of our most-reprinted cartoons of the week, as were two funny R.J. Matson cartoons on Colbert and Big Bird getting clipped. I also enjoyed Adam Zyglis’ cartoon on the public media cuts, which shows they were never about balancing the budget.

But our most-reprinted cartoon, drawn by Gary McCoy, was a riff on the cheating couple unfortunate to be hugging at the wrong time during a Coldplay concert. When in doubt, play the hits.

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

#1. Gary McCoy

#2. John Darkow

We have a great Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!

#3. R.J. Matson

#4. R.J. Matson

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Adam Zyglis

#8. Pat Byrnes

#9. Gary McCoy

#10. Chris Weyant

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Summer blues: Top ten cartoons of the week

With everything going on in Washington these days, it’s hard to actually enjoy the summer.

Whether it’s aggressive ICE agents, cuts to public broadcasting, or Trump’s off-and-on tariffs, the beach isn’t enough of a distraction over the dysfunction and short-sightedness of our current government.

That’s the crux of Chris Weyant’s popular cartoon this week, which features a vacationing man whose angry red face is easily confused with sunburn. Dave Granlund’s summer cartoon shows an equally-angry family, but instead of being upset over politics they’re upset about lifeguard shortages and E. coli in the water. Gross.

I did chuckle at John Darkow’s cartoon, which shows ICE agents working in a field, replacing the migrant workers they callously forced out of the country. Enjoy the summer heat!

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Jeff Koterba

We have a great new Caglecast with 115 cartoons of Trump vs MUSK –Cartoonists love the friction between these two, wacky characters! This also includes a great discussion about Elon Musk cartoons with Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba and Bob Englehart!

#3. Dave Granund

#4. John Darkow

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Bruce Plante

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. R.J.Matson

#10. John Darkow

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – November 13th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  November 13th, 2021.  Chris Weyant had the most reprinted cartoon of the week, which appeared in about 118 newspapers.

Kudos to Jeff Koterba who has three cartoons in the Top Ten! And congratulations to Dave Whamond who was our most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall.

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Chris Weyant took the #1 spot.

#2

Dave Whamond (who was the most reprinted cartoonist of the week, overall again this week) placed second.

#3

Ed Wexler nabbed third place.

#4

Jeff Koterba took 4th place.

#5

Dick Wright claims the five-spot.

#6

Christopher Weyant came in sixth.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place with his second cartoon on the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Fitzsimmons took 8th place.

#9

Guy Parsons takes 9th place with his first appearance in the Top Ten.

#10

Jeff Koterba with his third cartoon in the Top Ten!

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Conservative Cartoonists Weigh in on 'Occupy Sesame Street'

The battle over Sesame Street continues to be waged on the battlefield of TV news. The President has heightened his rhetoric following last week’s debate about Romney wanting to defund PBS, and Republicans have responded by playing a clip of Obama during 2008 when he said, “If you don’t have a record to run on… you make a big election about small things.”

We’ve had a lot of cartoons come in over the past week about Romney trying to kill Big Bird, so in order to prove not all cartoonists think alike, here are a handful of cartoons about the effort to defund PBS from our more conservative cartoonists. 

Eric Allie thinks President Obama might have the wrong priorities…

While Augusta Chronicle cartoonist Rick McKee thinks Big Bird’s argument might be mistimed…

Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Nate Beeler finds the one Muppet that doesn’t support the President…

Beeler also introduces us to this Christmas season’s hottest toy…

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review cartoonist Randy Bish thinks the argument boils down to simple math…

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Best Cartoons of the Week

Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.

So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.

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Cartoonists Weigh In On The First Presidential Debate

Viewers turning in to see a firey, zinger-filled debate were treated to an event columnist Peter Funt said “was such bad television that many Americans, including the prized “undecided voters,” probably gave up and changed the channel.”

One of the most talked-about nuggets to come out of the debate was Romney’s renewed call to cut funding to PBS, despite the fact it only accounts for 0.012 percent of the budget (check out all our Defunding PBS cartoons). Here’s the cartoon I drew at the time Republicans proposed defunding PBS as a way to help balance the budget:


Rob Tornoe’s cartoon from last night also weighs in on the desire to give the budgetary axe to Sesame Street. Poor Big Bird:


Our conservative bomb-thrower Gary McCoy predicted how the so-called “mainstream media” would try to spin last night’s debate results:

While Mobile Press-Register cartoonist JD Crowe dug past the soundbytes to try and find the truth fact checkers seemed so desperate to uncover:

Speaking of fact checkers, Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant figures with all the misstatments during last night’s debate, they’re about ready for the funny farm:


Meanwhile, Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News reminds us what follows every presidential debate:

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My Muppet Cartoons

I just drew another Muppet themed editorial cartoon, about Chick-Fil-A, below.  I worked for the Muppets from the 1970’s into the 1990’s; the Jim Henson organization made my career as a cartoonist so whenever the Muppets make the news I feel nostalgic.

Chick-Fil-A Muppets

I drew this one when Congress was cutting funding to PBS.

Sesame Street Muppets Congress Execution

I remember when Stephen Colbert testified before Congress, in character, and Republicans complained that they might as well have Elmo testify before Congress, another good occasion for a Muppet cartoon.

 

Sesame Street Muppets, Stephen Colbert, Congress, Elmo

This one was when the evil Goldman-Sachs traders derisively called their customers “Muppets,” for them, synonymous with “suckers.”

 

Goldman Sachs Muppets

The Children’s Television Workshop folks announced that Cookie Monster would no longer eat unhealthful cookies.

Sesame Street Cookie Monster

I drew this one when I was a local cartoonist in Hawaii, and Hawaii was running up to a vote to legalize gay marriage (which failed).  A conservative Christian group was outraged by the cartoon and organized a noisy protest outside my newspaper, the Midweek, demanding that the cartoonist “come out!” (I wasn’t really inside, I was at home in California, pretending to be a local Hawaii cartoonist.)

Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie, Gay Marriage, Hawaii

Here are some examples of what I drew and designed back in my Muppet years … the good old days.  I still love the Muppets.

Milton Bradley,The Great Muppet Caper Card Game

The Great Muppet Caper Galsses, McDonalds

Muppets,Wocky,Fozzie Bear,Muppet Magazine