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This is my new cartoon about the message that California is sending to Trump and Republicans with Proposition 50 (which is likely to pass).
Elections now are all about crazy gerrymandering, where elected officials get to choose their voters, instead of the other way around.
And the process leaves us all tied in a knot.
And we’re screwed.
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
Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending January 29th, 2022. Congratulations to Dick Wright who drew the #1 cartoon and has three cartoons in the Top Ten! And kudos to Rick McKee who also has three cartoons in the Top Ten and was our most reprinted cartoonist of the week! The amazing Jeff Koterba has two cartoons in the Top Ten! And kudos to Dave Whamond and Pat Byrnes who also made the list!
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Dick Wright took the #1 spot by a wide margin.
Jeff Koterba takes second place, also with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.
Rick McKee took third place and has three cartoons in the Top Ten.
Rick McKee also took 4th place – with his second cartoon on the Top Ten.
Jeff Koterba claims the five-spot.
Rick McKee came in sixth with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.
Dick Wright nabs seventh place.
Dick Wright took 8th place with his third cartoon in the Top Ten.
Dave Whamond takes 9th place.
Pat Byrnes wraps it up at number ten.
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Here’s my new cartoon about gerrymandering, with a kid drawing an accurate map of Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District in crayon on his living room wall. Gerrymandering is the process of drawing district lines, often house by house in crazy maps, to give an advantage to a particular party or candidate.
Gerrymandering will be more in the news soon as former president Obama has said he will be working hard on the issue and our former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he may run for the Senate on the issue of gerrymandering. We’ll see a new round of congressional gerrymandering with the next census in 2020, with lots of battling for position taking place in the run up to the state elections where Republican legislators have been very successful in drawing crazy districts that gave them control of congress (Democrats are just as bad when they are in control.)
See me draw this one in real time, in the video below, and see a map of Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District!
In the next video see me coloring the cartoon in Adobe Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq.
