Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 10, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 10, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (October 3rd, through October 10th, 2020). As usual, no drawings of President Trump were popular with editors, even with Trump dominating the news every day.

My own cartoon was #1 this week, by an unusually wide margin. Dave Whamond had a whopper of a week with three cartoons in the Top Ten. Steve Sack and Dave Granlund also had impressive weeks, each taking two spots on the Top Ten.

Congratulations to the other two cartoonists with Top Ten cartoons: Jeff Koterba and Rick McKee.

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. 20% of the cartoons get 80% of the reprints, and the Top Ten cartoons are what most readers see inter newspapers.

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#1

My own cartoon nabbed first place, outpacing the pack by a big margin. See the Daryl Cagle archive.

#2

Steve Sack follows with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#3

Jeff Koterba takes 3rd place. Readers love memorial cartoons.

#4

Dave Granlund had a strong week, here’s Dave’s first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Dave Whamond takes 5th place with his first of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#6

Dave Granlund is tied for 6th place with his second Top Ten cartoon.

#6

Steve Sack shares 6th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Rick McKee is tied for 8th place.

#8

Dave Whamond shares 8th place with his second of three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#10

And Dave Whamond wraps up the week with his third cartoon on the list.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 3, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 3, 2020

Correction 10/14/20: I have to apologize for making an error in the Top Ten for this week, and it was a big error. John Darkow actually had both the #1 and #2 cartoons of the week, and both by a large margin – those darn stats! I have added the missing top cartoon as a second #1 cartoon, with a special congratulations to John for the incredible feat of capping the list with two mega-popular cartoons!

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (September 23rd through October 3rd, 2020). The news about President Trump contracting COVID generated a lot of cartoons on Friday, but none of them made the Top Ten. There was a lot of criticism of Trump’s overly aggressive debate performance, but not in the cartoons that editors chose to publish about the debate.

Congratulations to John Darkow for his #1 cartoon that outpaced the pack by a wide margin this week. Dave Granlund also had a great week with two cartoons on the list. Dave Whamond and Jeff Koterba continued their long streaks of Top Ten appearances. We had an unusual three way tie for ninth place so there are eleven cartoons on the list this week.

Kudos to the other cartoonists who made our list of the cartoons most published in newspapers this week, Steve Sack, Rick McKee, Gary McCoy, Randy Enos – and me.

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#1

CORRECTED 10/14/20: Here is the correction, added as John’s second #1 cartoon of the week. John Darkow has TWO cartoons in first place, both outpacing the pack by a big margin.

#1

John Darkow is in first place, outpacing the pack by a big margin.

#2

Dave Whamond follows with the #2 cartoon. Editors were interested only in debate cartoons that were even handed in their criticism of Trump and Biden.

#3

Steve Sack takes 3rd place. The pandemic’s effect on sports is a favorite topic for editors.

#4

Dave Granlund had a strong week with two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Rick McKee takes 5th place with the only cartoon about the Supreme Court fight.

#6

I nabbed 6th place. The news cycle didn’t leave much space for the cartoons about Trump’s taxes. See my Daryl Cagle archive here..

#7

Dave Granlund’s even handed debate cartoon is his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

Eighth place goes to Jeff Koterba with another even handed debate cartoon.

#9

Randy Enos shares a three way tie for 9th place with a pandemic at school cartoon, which has been the favorite topic of editors for months.

#9

Here is the first of two, conservative Gary McCoy cartoons that are tied for 9th place.

#9

Here is Gary McCoy’s second cartoon that is tied for 9th place.

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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 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.

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#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!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – July 11, 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 11, 2020

Here are the ten most widely published cartoons of the week (July 4 through July 11, 2020). As usual, no drawings of President Trump are among the most reprinted cartoons. Also, this week we’re back to the typical pattern of a steep curve, where the most popular cartoons with newspaper editors far exceeded all the other cartoons in reprints. Seven of the Top Ten are about coronavirus, with three about “back to school,” which is a topic that editors love right now.

Dave Whamond dominated this week with #1 and #2 cartoons that far outpaced the others on the list with close to twice as many reprints as the rest. John Darkow has an impressive three cartoons in the Top Ten this week. Dave Granlund also has an impressive performance with two cartoons on the list. Kudos to the three other cartoonists who made the Top Ten this week, John Cole, Jeff Koterba and Bruce Plante. Great work, gentlemen!

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#1

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

#2

Dave Whamond also drew the #2 most reprinted cartoon this week!

#3

John Darkow has three cartoons in the Top Ten this week, including this one that is tied for third place.

#3

Dave Granlund has two cartoons in the Top Ten and shares 3rd place.

#5

John Cole takes 5th place. If I was drawing this gag I probably would have put president Trump in the place of the generic economist and it occurred to me that if John had done that, this cartoon probably wouldn’t have made it into the Top Ten. Drawings of Trump make newspaper editors run the other way.

#6

Here is John Darkow‘s second of three cartoons in the Top Ten. Color cartoons get more downloads from editors, so this one really hit the editorial sweet spot to make it into the Top Ten. Editors love “back to school” cartoons about the pandemic.

#7

Bruce Plante is in 7th place.

#8

Jeff Koterba takes for 8th place.

#9

Here is John Darkow‘s third cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

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

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The Best COVID-19 SPORTS CARTOONS!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 24, 2020

Here are all of the best CagleCartoons about CORONAVIRUS SPORTS!

Pat Bagley

Nikola Lištes

Angel Boligan

Christo Komarnitsky

Rainer Hochfeld

Dale Cummings

The next three are by our photo-realistic, Dutch cartoonist, Bart van Leeuwen

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TRUE COLOR!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 20, 2018

This will be my last batch of TRUE cartoons for my blog. I watercolored these for some reason that I forget! Back in the 1990’s, when this ran in newspapers, it ran in black and white and there was no color, Sunday TRUE. Gotta love color!

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FIFA Officials, Prison Stripes and those Balls ‘n Chains

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 28, 2015

This is the first cartoon I’ve drawn for almost two weeks, after my trip to Ukraine. I was a little more ambitious with this one than usual, doing caricatures of the top FIFA officials who have just been indicted by the USA Justice Department – the only law enforcement agency in the world willing to take these crooks down. Sometimes it is good that America doesn’t care about soccer; but we care about crooks.

The top FIFA officials who were indicted for corruption. Top row: Jack Warner, Julio Rocha. Middle row: Rafael Esquivel, Jose Maria Marin, Eugenio Figured, Jeffrey Webb. Bottom: Eduardo Li.

Funny, I was rushing to get through with this, because it was taking me longer than it should have, and now that I posted it and sent it out to newspapers, and I have a minute to sit back and think, I see lots of errors! Look at Rafael Esquivel the second row left – I didn’t draw his left leg!

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FIFA Officials in Prison Garb

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 28, 2015

FIFA Officials in Prison Garb © Daryl Cagle,CagleCartoons.com,FIFA,Rafael Esquivel,Jose Maria Marin,Eduardo Li,Eugenio Figueredo. Bottom from left: Nicolas Leoz,Jack Warner,Jeffrey Webb,Julio Rocha,soccer,football,sports

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Tom Brady Deflates

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 7, 2015

Tom Brady Deflates © Daryl Cagle,CagleCartoons.com,New England Patriots,Super Bowl,Deflategate,deflate-gate,sports,football,NFL,National Football League,Tom Brady,quarterback,air

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High on the Super Bowl

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date January 28, 2014

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Green Bay Cartoonist Reflects on Brett Favre

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date December 17, 2010

There have been hundreds of cartoons drawn about Brett Favre over the course of his 20-year career. But no cartoonist has had a better vantage point over the years than Joe Heller, the staff cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Joe was there when Brett first took the field, won his first MVP, brought home a Super Bowl championship and began playing his annual “I’m retiring” game. Looking through Joe’s cartoons over the years, you can see an evolution of opinion forming.

“At first it was fun and exciting going to two Super Bowls,” Heller said. “And yes, the paper did send me to New Orleans in 1997 and San Diego in 1998 to cover SB week in cartoons.”

“The rest of the time I chronicling the ups and downs of the team. However, as Favre began his annual routine of retiring and returning and retiring and returning; the image of Brett as a MVP superstar turned to a tedious routine indecision.”

Here are a collection of Joe’s best cartoons, chronicling the career of Brett Favre:

Joe Heller is the cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. To see more of Joe’s cartoons, click here.

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Super Bowl Cartoon Slideshow

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date February 7, 2010

It’s that time of year again, Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! Time to eat horrible food and make disgusting man grunts as the Colts and the Saints pay some meaningless game to fill time between funny commercials.

Anyway, to check out our collection of funny Super Bowl Cartoons, just click on the funny Steve Kelley cartoon below.

CLICK TO VIEW OUR SUPER BOWL CARTOON SLIDESHOW

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