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Conservatives Gary McCoy and Rivers – Drawing Amongst Liberals

On this week’s Caglecast we’re joined by two of our most conservative cartoonists, Gary McCoy who also draws two comic strips, “The Duplex” and “The Flying McCoys”; and Rivers, who draws anonymously and joins us with a disguise and an altered voice.

The vast majority of editorial cartoonists are liberal so the few, conservative cartoonists stand out as unusual, and often stand alone voicing ideas that seldom find their way into general circulation newspapers; Gary and Rivers are among the best among the few conservative cartoonists, and they talk about living in a world of liberal editors which includes their liberal editor who is hosting the podcast, me, Daryl Cagle.

Gary and Rivers show lots of their favorite cartoons, they enjoy denigrating Dr. Anthony Fauci; they deny the efficacy of COVID vaccines; they complain about the ignorance of liberals who watch MSNBC; they let us know that we wouldn’t have this war in Ukraine now if Trump was in office; they tell us about how the insurrection wasn’t an insurrection at all, and how most of the MAGA folks on January 6th were out for a peaceful stroll.

We could have titled this “Cartoons from the Bizarro Dimension.”  …but we love Gary and Rivers. Really, we do.  Here are a few of the images that are discussed in the video.

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The Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

The good news? Home prices are dropping. Unfortunately, interest rates continue to climb as the Federal Reserve fights to slow down inflation.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week revolve around the high prices we’re all continuing to pay. Dave Whamond’s funny Monty Python riff on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was also popular with editors.

The number eight cartoon about the “Fall Equinox” is a correction of our number one cartoon from last week. Cartoonist Guy Parsons wrote the cartoon about the “Fall Solstice” and, of course, there is no such thing. A group of school children wrote to Guy about the error, and Guy made this corrected cartoon, which was also widely published. No adults complained about the “Fall Solstice” — just kids.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#4. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

#5. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#6. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

#7. John Cole, Cagle.com

#8. John Cole, Cagle.com

#9. Guy Parsons, Cagle.com

#10. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

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LIZ CHENEY LAMENT: TOP TEN CARTOONS

August is typically a slow news month, but between the FBI searching Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and the national shortage of teachers, there’s been plenty for cartoonists to draw about.

This week, editors loved Chris Weyant’s funny cartoon about confused liberals upset over Liz Cheney’s Republican primary loss. Cartoons about rent hikes, climate change, and the slow return of COVID-19 were also popular.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Cagle.com

#2. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#3. Jeff Koterba, Support Jeff on his Patreon.

 

#4. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#5. Monte Wolverton, Cagle.com

 

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#7. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

#8. John Darkow, Cagle.com

 

#9. Dick Wright, Cagle.com

 

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

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Recession Rumblings – Top 10, August 4th, 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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Top Ten Cartoons, July 30, 2022

Climate change was on the mind of cartoonists last week after much of the country was scorched by a record-breaking heat wave. Things have gotten so hot in Europe that Spain rolled out a new heat wave ranking system and the world’s first named heat wave – Zoe.

With consumers still impacted by rising prices, a few of our most reprinted cartoons this week centered on inflation and the possibility the U.S. could already be experiencing a recession. And more than two years after the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 is still showing up in cartoons.

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

#1

Chris Weyant took the #1 most reprinted spot!

#2

Jeff Koterba placed 2nd.  Here’s #2!

#3

Rick McKee  took third place!

#4

Pat Bagley nabbed 4th place.

#5

Dick Wright claims the five-spot.

#6

Rick McKee landed in sixth place.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place.

#8

Gary McCoy took 8th place.

#9

Rivers takes 9th place!

#10

Dick Wright  comes in at number ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons, June 24, 2022

Record gas prices, continued inflation, flight cancellations… unfortunately, bad news makes for good editorial cartoons.

Cartoonists remain focused on the continued economic woes Americans face, whether it’s at the gas station or the airport. Editor’s loved John Darkow’s police lineup of gas pumps, which seems appropriate given how long we’ve been forced to endure record high prices.

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

#1

John Darkow took the #1 most reprinted spot, his first of two in the Top Ten.

#2

Jeff Koterba took second place, also his first of two in the list!

#3

Kevin Siers took third place!

#4

RJ Matson nabbed 4th place.

#5

Guy Parsons claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Granlund landed in sixth.

#7

Chris Weyant nabs seventh place.

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

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

#10

Dave Whamond wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon on the list.

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Top Ten Cartoons, June 2, 2022

After a gunman massacred 19 kids in a school in Uvalde, Texas, it’s not surprising to see a number of our shooting cartoons widely reprinted by news organizations. But what is surprising is the four most reprinted cartoons this week had nothing to do with country’s latest mass shooting – they touched on college graduation, inflation, and Memorial Day.

Peter Kuper’s cartoon about masks was also one of the most widely-reprinted cartoons this week, a sign that more than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 still remains an important issue in the lives of readers.

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

 

#1

Gary McCoy took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) took second place!

#3

Dave Granlund took third place!

#4

Dave Whamond nabbed 4th place too.

#5

Dave Granlund claims the five-spot with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#6

Kevin Siers came in sixth.

#7

Dick Wright nabs seventh place.

#8

Peter Kuper took 8th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#9

Adam Zyglis takes 9th place!

#10

John Darkow wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon on the list.

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Inflation Irritation: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

The Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was still on the mind of cartoonists and editors this week, which isn’t surprising since the landmark ruling on abortion has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years.

Inflation and supply chain problems continue to be issues that resonate with readers, especially with the news this week that baby formula is hard to find. What food shortage will we be drawing about next week?

#1

Rivers took the #1 most reprinted spot.

#2

Rivers also took second place.

#3

Jeff Koterba  took third place!

#4

John Darkow nabbed 4th place.

#5

Bob Englehart claims the five-spot.

#6

Randall Enos came in sixth.

#7

John Cole nabs seventh place.

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

Kevin Siers takes 9th place!

#10

Dave Granlund 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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Different Worlds – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

The Top Ten most reprinted editorial cartoons this week again show the stark contrast between what newspaper editors want, what cartoonists want to draw and what we are seeing on the TV news.

Cartoonists want to draw cartoons about Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, which is dominating the television news. Editors have little interest in cartoons about the war. In the past week, only one popular cartoon mentions the war or mentions Putin, in a combined gag about Will Smith and President Biden. It seems like editorial cartoonists and newspaper editors are living in different worlds.

Historians look back at editorial cartoons as a window on their times, reflecting the concerns of readers about the issues of the day; this no longer works, and stopped being true during the Trump administration, when cartoonists were all drawing Trump, who dominated the news while editors had little interest in running editorial cartoons depicting Trump.

Here’s a graph showing the relative number of reprints, and you can see how editors preferred Dave Granlund’s cartoon about Netflix much more than the rest.  Congratulations, Dave!

And here are the Top Ten …

#1

Dave Whamond took the #1 most reprinted spot, by a wide margin.

#2

Rick McKee took second place with his first of two in the Top Ten.

#3

Jeff Koterba took third place.

#4

John Cole nabbed 4th place.

#5

Dave Whamond claims the five-spot with his first of two cartoons in theTop Ten.

#6

Adam Zyglis came in sixth.

#7

Dave Whamond nabs seventh place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Rivers took 8th place.

#9

John Darkow takes 9th place.

#10

Rick McKee wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – March 25th, 2022

We’ve made a few changes to the Top Ten of the Week. It turns out that our subscribing editors like the Top Ten and some have been using it as a weekly cartoon round-up, so I decided to make this into a column which ran for the first time last week.  It now counts the stats from Wednesday to Wednesday.  Look here and you can see what this looks like as a column.

TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

Editors prefer cartoons about high gas prices and inflation, but a few more cartoons about the war in Ukraine crept into our Top Ten list of the most reprinted cartoons of the week.

The most popular is actually No. 2, a rearview mirror COVID cartoon by Jeff Koterba, which straddled two weeks so it didn’t hit No. 1, but it was reprinted in over 250 newspapers – that’s a lot.

At Cagle.com, we’ve been syndicating editorial cartoons for over twenty years, and we’ve amassed an archive of over 250,000 cartoons. Every few years there’s a spike in gas prices and these are the cartoons editors want to publish, so I looked back over two decades for some oldies that might look fresh today.

I found some great high gas price cartoons by Tab, a great, retired, Canadian cartoonist who used to draw for the Calgary Sun. I sent these to newspapers looking as fresh and new as they did 17 years ago. That’s one of Tab’s gas price cartoons at No. 9, and editors liked all of Tab’s cartoons.

High gas prices never get old.

#1. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#2. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#3. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#4. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#5. Christopher Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#6. Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

 

#7. Dick Wright, Cagle.com

 

#8. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#9. Tab, Cagle.com

 

#10 . Guy Parsons, Cagle.com

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – February 18th, 2022

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the seven days ending  February 18th, 2022. Congratulations to Dave Whamond who took the #1 spot this week and claimed an impressive 3 cartoons in the Top Ten. Dave was also the most reprinted cartoonist of the week, by far. Also, kudos to Jeff Koterba who has two cartoons on the Top Ten.

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#1

Dave Whamond took the #1 spot.

#2

Jeff Koterba took second place.

#3

Dave Whamond took third place.

#4

Jeff Koterba nabs 4th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

David-Fitzsimmons claims the five-spot.

#6

Kevin Siers came in sixth.

#7

Guy Parsons nabs seventh place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Granlund took 8th place.

#9

Chris Weyant takes 9th place.

#10

Dave Whamond wraps it up at number ten.

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