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After Halloween HORROR – Top Ten Cartoons

The most reprinted cartoons of last week were dominated by Halloween – just like the week before.  Editors love Halloween cartoons for all of October every year. (And the government shutdown is scary!)

It was easier to enjoy holidays like Halloween when the economy was strong, prices were affordable, and we weren’t worried about robots stealing our jobs.

Jeff Koterba brilliantly mined the malaise surrounding Halloween this year in our most-popular cartoon this week, which featured a trio of terrors – inflation, the government shutdown, and A.I.

Dave Whamond took a similar path in his funny Halloween cartoon that asks a simple question – why watch horror movies when you can just turn on the news?

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

#1. Jeff Koterba

#2. Dave Whamond

We have a great new Caglecast podcast about Trump’s impending attack on Venezuela and it’s crooked president, Nicolas Maduro – with two great cartoonists, Taylor Jones and Arcadio Esquivel. The conversation gets into to how-to-draw and A.I., like most conversations around here do. Its fun!  Come watch!

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Dave Whamond

#5. Bruce Plante

#6. Jeff Koterba

#7. R.J. Matson

#8. John Darkow

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. R.J. Matson

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Halloween hijinks: Top ten cartoons of the week

Even though we’re still a week away from Halloween, it’s never too early for cartoonists to flex their holiday-drawing muscles.

Our most-reprinted Halloween cartoon this week comes from Chris Weyant, who drew two pumpkins and the impact reading too many headlines can have. I laughed at Rick McKee’s cartoon, about a Frankenstein monster with chicken legs due to sky-high meat prices.

While many of our most popular cartoons this week were Halloween-related, the one reprinted most by editors was a funny take about the high-profile heist at the Louvre in Paris, France drawn by Gary McCoy.

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

#1. Gary McCoy

#2. Chris Weyant

I recently went to Italy for the World Humor Awards exhibition and awards. I made new friends and had a great time, so I made a podcast discussing all the winning cartoons with our new, Italian Cagle Cartoonist Marco de Angelis and ISCA (the caricaturist organization) president, Robin Schwartzman, who were jurors for the exhibition and great cartoonists.  Come look!

#3. Rick McKee

#4. Bob Englehart

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. John Darkow

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. John Darkow

#9. Chris Weyant

#10. John Darkow

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Crazy times: Top ten cartoons of the week

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

I recently went to Italy for the World Humor Awards exhibition and awards. I made new friends and had a great time, so I made a podcast discussing all the winning cartoons with our new, Italian Cagle Cartoonist Marco de Angelis and ISCA (the caricaturist organization) president, Robin Schwartzman, who were jurors for the exhibition and great cartoonists.  Come look!

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. John Darkow

#5. John Darkow

#6. John Darkow

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. Margolis & Cox

#9. Rick McKee

#10. Bob Englehart

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Top Ten Cartoons! The Election is Almost here!

Election day is less than two weeks away, which means plenty of time for you to be inundated with more polls, campaign ads, and conspiracy theories about voting.

Our most popular cartoon of the week came from Bob Englehart, who suggests a nice, long hibernation to sleep through the inevitable recounts, legal battles, and fake controversies on social media. Editors also liked Chris Weyant’s cartoon about polls, which you should stop reading immediately if you want to reclaim your sanity before Election Day.

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

#1. Bob Englehart

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#2. Chris Weyant

#3. Randall Enos

#4. Jeff Koterba

#5. Chris Weyant

#6. Jeff Koterba

#7. John Darkow

#8. Daryl Cagle

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. R.J. Matson

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BAD NEWS: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

These days, we always seem to be surrounded by bad news. The conflict in Israel. Mass shootings across the country. A political system that never seems to work.

Several of our most popular cartoons this week centered around that theme, including Chris Weyant’s touching piece about a father reading at night to her daughter. If only we could all just live happily ever after.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

 

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#2. Dave Whamond

 

#3. Dave Whamond

 

#4. Daryl Cagle

 

#5. Dave Whamond

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#6. Dick Wright

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#7. John Darkow

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#8. Jeff Koterba

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#9. Dave Granlund

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#10. John Darkow

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Election Burnout: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

If you haven’t noticed by all the political attack ads on television, it’s nearly Election Day! In just a couple of days Americans will be heading down to their local polling place to cast that vote in the 2022 midterms.

Elections are always a long slog for both voters and cartoonists, who just feel fatigued by the whole thing at this point. But at least they give us plenty to draw about.

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

#1. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#2. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#3. Rick McKee, Cagle.com

 

#4. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#5. R.J. Matson, Roll Call

 

#6. R.J. Matson, Cagle.com

 

#7. Daryl Cagle, Cagle.com

 

#8. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

 

#9. Ed Wexler, Cagle.com

 

#10. Gary McCoy, Cagle.com

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Midterms Approach: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

We’re a little more than a week out from Election Day, and inflation remains one of the biggest issues of the midterms. Everything just seems to keep getting more and more expensive.

Of course, the election itself is a great topic for cartoons. Election deniers, unfit candidates, polarization – unfortunately there’s a lot of material for cartoonists to work with.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#4. Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

 

#5. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#6. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#7. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#8. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#9. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#10. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

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hmmm … We’re COVID Cheerleaders? Top Ten COVID Cartoons

Researchers like to categorize and count things. Most of the few scholarly studies of editorial cartoons involve making subjective judgements about cartoons to divide the cartoons into categories selected for the study.

I gave Political Science professor Dr. Jody Baumgartner full access to our archives to do a study on editorial cartoons about Coronavirus. Baumgartner and his colleague Dr. Hanna Kassab categorized and counted only CagleCartoons.com content, and their study has just been published; see it here.

The study asked if political cartoonists are “Critics” or “Cheerleaders.” The researchers studied only CagleCartoons that were about COVID during the time of the pandemic.

The conclusion of the study? Political cartoonists are “cheerleaders” for the establishment. We prefer to think of ourselves as critics.  Calling us “cheerleaders” sounds a bit rude.

Perhaps Baumgartner and Kassab are conservative and were looking for more cartoons bashing Dr. Fauci, resisting mask mandates, promoting conspiracy theories, and shilling Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, injected bleach and anti-vaxxer nonsense.

Here are the ten most reprinted pandemic cartoons since 2019. (Keep in mind that editors like for us to be cheerleaders for truth.) Congratulations to Jeff Koterba for taking four out of ten, and to Rick McKee and Dave Granlund for each having two on the Top Ten!

John Darkow

 

Dave Granlund

Dave Whamond

 

Jeff Koterba

Rick McKee

 

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 30th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 30th, 2021.  Congratulations to Rick McKee who was our most reprinted cartoonist of the week, on the strength of four great Halloween cartoons from earlier in the week.

Rick and I tied for the #1 most reprinted cartoon of the week, with each of our cartoons appearing in approximately 112 newspapers. Rick also has an impressive three cartoons in the Top Ten.  I have two.

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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#1

Rick McKee took the #1 spot and has three cartoons in the Top Ten.

#1

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) placed second.

#3

Rick McKee nabbed third place with another Halloween cartoon.

#4

Dave Whamond took 4th place.

#5

Gary McCoy claims the five-spot.

#6

Pat Byrnes came in sixth.

#7

RJ Matson nabs seventh place!

#8

Dave Granlund took 8th place.

#9

Rick McKee takes 9th place with his third Halloween cartoon in the Top Ten.

#10

Daryl Cagle (me again) rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 23rd, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 23rd, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who seems to draw the most reprinted cartoon every week lately! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 114 newspapers. Jeff has two cartoons in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall. Also the same as the last two weeks.

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot again.

#2

Monte Wolverton placed second.

#3

Rick McKee nabbed third place.  This is an oldie I drew thirteen years ago.  It still seems appropriate so I dusted it off and posted it again.

#4

Jeff Koterba took 4th place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#5

David Fitzsimmons claims the five-spot.

#6

Rivers came in sixth.

 

#7

Dave Granlund nabs seventh place!

#8

John Darkow took 8th place.

#9

Dave Whamond takes 9th place.

#10

Steve Sack rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 16th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 16th, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who drew the most popular cartoon again this week! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 122 newspapers. Jeff and Bob Englehart have two cartoons each in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall. Also the same as last week.

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot by a wide margin.

#2

Bob Englehart placed second.

#3

Daryl Cagle nabbed third place.  This is an oldie I drew thirteen years ago.  It still seems appropriate so I dusted it off and posted it again.

#4

Bob Englehart took 4th place.

#5

Dave Whamond claims the five-spot.

#6

Dave Granlund came in sixth.

 

#7

Pat Byrnes nabs seventh place!

 

#8

Jeff Koterba took 8th place.

#9

John Cole takes 9th place.

#10

John Darkow rounds it out at 10th place!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – October 10th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  October 10th, 2021. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who drew the most popular cartoon of the week! Jeff’s cartoon was reprinted in about 138 newspapers, well ahead of #2. Jeff and John Darkow each have two cartoons in the Top Ten!

And congratulations to Dave Granlund who was the most reprinted cartoonist for the week, overall.

Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. These are the cartoons that editors picked last week.

Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, still needs you!  Journalism is threatened with the pandemic that has shuttered newspaper advertisers. Some pundits predict that a large percentage of newspapers won’t survive the pandemic economic slump, and as newspapers sink, editorial cartoonists who depend on newspapers sink too, and along with them, our Cagle.com site.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot by a wide margin.

#2

Chris Weyant placed second.

#3

Dave Granlund nabbed third place.

#4

Gary McCoy took 4th place.

#5

Jeff Koterba claims the five-spot.

#6

John Darkow came in sixth.

 

#7

John Cole nabs seventh place!

 

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

RJ Matson takes 9th place.

#10

John Darkow rounds it out at 10th place!

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