DarylCagle.comHere are our best, newest cartoons about EVIL ICE AGENTS!
#1. Rick McKee
#2. Ed Wexler
#3. Pat Bagley
#4. Steve Sack
#5. Pat Bagley
#6. John Darkow
Lately I’ve been haunting my own past, rummaging through drawers stuffed with self-portraits that stretch back 50 years—from a wide-eyed 19-year-old college kid in 1976 to the bearded, battle-scarred cartoonist I became, dodging hackers, raising a family, and even fielding endless questions about my long-gone Trump-era beard. I’ve got way too many of these staring back at me! This one is from 1976, when I was a student at Santa Barbara City College—pencil on beloved Graphix Duoshade paper (which I still miss). Yep, that’s exactly what I looked like. And yes, that’s how we all dressed in the ’70s.
France Cartoons is collecting self portraits of cartoonists, which has me rummaging through my drawers. This is me from Trump’s first term when I had a white beard. People are still asking me “What happened to the beard?” Trump hasn’t changed, though.
This self-portrait is me with my daughter, Susie, 28 years ago, in a comic I did that ran for about a year in the weekly “TV Times” magazine in the UK and a similar national TV guide type magazine in Australia. Notice the old TV, and old land-line phone, and young Susie. (This was years before the beard.)
I drew this self portrait after we had a big hacker attack that erased our servers, and we could identify that the attack came from China. I can still feel their breath on my neck.
Here’s another old self-portrait. This one is from back when I had a beard and I got my marijuana license. Now marijuana is everywhere and you don’t need a license (in California). That’s progress, I suppose. This ran as a full page in our local Santa Barbara Independent and it features my wife, Peg and son, Buster.
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The recent ICE abuses prompted our great, retired, Minneapolis cartoonist, Steve Sack to come out of retirement for a moment, to draw this new, local cartoon.
This Rick McKee ICE in the Mirror cartoon on our cover image is a great one.
And here are a couple of mine that are in the Caglecast:
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The government is reopened and Democrats are being mocked for caving. Looks like everything is back to normal in Washington.
Our most-reprinted cartoon of the week was John Darkow’s perfect shutdown metaphor, comparing Democrats trusting Republicans to extend Obamacare subsidies to Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. I think we all know how this will end.
Our cartoonists covered a lot of ground this week, with popular cartoons about Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, and even the northern lights. I personally liked Rick McKee’s cartoon about the old woman who lives in a shoe, a lucky recipient of one of Trump’s 50-year mortgages. I wonder if she’s still making payments.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. John Darkow
#2. Dave Granlund
#3. Dave Granlund
#4. Bruce Plante
#5. Dave Granlund
#6. Bob Englehart
#7. Jeff Koterba
#8. Rick McKee
#9. Margolis & Cox
#10. Rick McKee
As the government shutdown enters its sixth week, Republicans and Democrats don’t seem much closer to a solution both sides can agree on.
As Bob Englehart notes in his popular cartoon this week, we’re not listening to one another. The loudest, harshest voices dominate the discussion, with one side yelling at the other, as Gary McCoy depicted in his funny toon.
Hopefully the sweeping Election Night Democrats had this week loosens things up in Washington so a deal can get done before planes start falling from the sky. Our cartoonists don’t seem too optimistic about that.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. Bob Englehart
#2. John Darkow
#4. Gary McCoy
#5. Bob Englehart
#6. Dave Whamond
#7. Dave Granlund
#8. Dick Wright
#9. R.J. Matson
#10. Harley Schwadron
A government shutdown. Costs continuing to rise. Soldiers on the streets of American cities. Political enemies of the president targeted by his administration. Reporters forced out of the Pentagon.
Outside of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas, is there actually any good news out there?
Chris Weyant tapped into that sentiment with one of our most-reprinted cartoons of the week, which features a gameshow appropriately called “How much more of this can I take?” I also enjoyed Dave Whamond’s cartoon, about Americans tuning out of the news and turning to Netflix instead.
Our most-reprinted cartoon was a wonderful John Darkow piece on the government shutdown, which is entering its third week with no end in sight. In his cartoon, Darkow wondered if we’ll all get a break on our taxes with the government at a standstill. I think you know the answer to that, which I guess is just more bad news.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. John Darkow
#2. Chris Weyant
#3. Dave Whamond
#4. John Darkow
#5. John Darkow
#6. John Darkow
#7. Dave Granlund
#8. Margolis & Cox
#9. Rick McKee
#10. Bob Englehart
The government shutdown grinds forward, with no end in sight and no deal on the horizon to bring together Republicans and Democrats. In other words, it’s a mess, which isn’t exactly new for Washington.
Gary McCoy’s shutdown cartoon, featuring a student complaining about schools not being closed, was our most-reprinted cartoon this week. Bruce Plante’s boxing-themed cartoon – with both Republicans and Democrats bruised and battered – was also popular among editors.
I laughed at Pat Byrnes’ funny cartoon about Republicans and Democrats finally finding something to agree on – the full release of the Epstein files. Now if they can only find something to agree on to reopen the government.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. Gary McCoy
#2. Bruce Plante
#4. Dave Granlund
#5. Bob Englehart
#6. John Cole
#7. Pat Byrnes
#8. Bob Englehart
#9. John Darkow
#10. R.J. Matson
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
#3. Dave Whamond
#4. Dave Granlund
#5. Dave Granlund
#6. Chris Weyant
#7. Taylor Jones
#8. John Cole
#9. Dave Whamond
#10. Dave Granlund
Economic uncertainty. Continued inflation. Medicaid cuts. Crackdowns on universities across the country. The internet being filled with AI slop.
Boy, the new seems grim and relentless. Which is why Monte Wolverton’s cartoon about the search for a glimmer of good news struck a chord with editors this week, topping our list of the most-reprinted cartoons.
Jeff Koterba also tapped into the unease over the economy in a cartoon about the death of the penny, which shockingly costs almost 4 cents per penny to make. Unfortunately, they will only increase the need for nickels, which run 14 cents each. Add that to the list of depressing news items.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. Monte Wolverton
#2. Jeff Koterba
#3. Dave Granlund
#4. Gary McCoy
#5. Rick McKee
#6. Dave Granlund
#7. Chris Weyant
#8. R.J. Matson
#9. Chris Weyant
#10. John Cole
I just posted a new Caglecast with 135 great cartoons depicting Trump as an animal. You can probably watch this without noticed that there’s something funny about our eyes. I tried using A.I. for the first time –oops!
One problem I have with these videos is that I’m a one-man-band video crew, looking at the monitors to switch views, select cartoons and make adjustments as we go along, so I turn my head left and right, and I look down, and I rarely stare blankly into the camera as I should do. I look distracted. So I tried a new A.I. gizmo that adjusts my gaze to look into the camera. I watched the beginning of the video as I turned my head from side to side, but my stare remained on the camera, and I thought it looked good. This is a feature of an editing program I use, called “Descript,” and they call their A.I. “Overlord.”
Then, after I posted the video on YouTube, and I looked a little more closely, I noticed my eyes would sometime dart around, at one point rolling up into my head; poor Adam Zyglis had a twitchy right eye, and at one point is cross eyed. And some cartoons are googley eyed too.
This cartoon by Bart van Leeuwen made me laugh, at 35:10 into the video, the A.I. Overlord animated the eyes on Trump and Biden and it looks pretty funny. Take a look.
At 44:47 into the video, this cartoon by Dave Granlund also gets strangely realistic, with moving eyes that reminded me of the mouths on the old Clutch Cargo show from 1960. I liked that show when I was five years old. It was creepy.
Even though you might think that Adam and I are occasionally having a stroke, I decided to leave this version of the video up without re-editing. I won’t be using the Overlord again.
Cartoonists who keep their eyes focused on A.I. are getting other headaches now. Here’s a cartoon by Bob Englehart that was recently stolen and redrawn with AI.
Donald Trump’s certainly left his mark on the global economy, with his global tariffs continuing to wreak havoc on markets across the world. Here in the U.S., Wall Street has become something of a rollercoaster ride, jumping and falling on every Truth Social post from the president
The interest in everything tariffs was evident this week, as nearly all of our most-reprinted cartoons were about Trump’s tax hike on imported goods. Our most popular cartoon, drawn by Ed Wexler, focused on the poor penguins in Antarctica unexpectedly hit by Trump’s tariffs.
Dave Whamond also drew a pair of popular tariff cartoons – a funny one featuring a keyboard warrior turned tax expert, and another mocking our dwindling 401(k)s. If you haven’t logged into your retirement account lately, don’t start now. I’d wait for all of Trump’s “winning” to kick in.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. Ed Wexler
#2. Dave Whamond
#3. Dave Whamond
#4. Dave Granlund
#5. Harley Schwadron
#6. John Darkow
#7. John Darkow
#8. Dave Granlund
#9. Dave Granlund
#10. Dick Wright
IRS agents. VA workers. Park rangers. Air traffic controllers. Social Security administrators. No one employed by the federal government appears safe with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency waiving a chainsaw across Washington.
Our top two most-reprinted cartoons of the week come from Chris Weyant, and both mock Musk’s blunt and mistake-prone process of trimming the size of the federal workforce. I also enjoyed Jeff Koterba’s cartoon about astronauts returning home after being stuck on the International Space Station, only to find a “Planet of the Apes” scenario playing out in the U.S.
Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:
#1. Chris Weyant
#2. Chris Weyant
#3. Jeff Koterba
#4. Dave Granlund
#5. John Darkow
#6. John Darkow
#7. John Darkow
#8. R.J. Matson
#9. Alexandra Bowman
#10. Bruce Plante
