Summer and AI: Top ten cartoons of the week

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 1, 2025

While it’s never really quiet with Trump in office, the summer does provide some relief from the relentless pace of news.

Without politics in the forefront, two topics dominated our list of the most-reprinted cartoons this week – the continued expansion of AI and the overwhelming heat.

I enjoyed John Darkow’s popular cartoon about AI, which featured classic robots from Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone. John’s funny cartoon about the scorching temperatures also topped our list, focused on a man who asked about the heat one too many times.

But our most-reprinted cartoon of the week by far, drawn by Dave Granlund, focused on the increasing cost of health care in the U.S. Can’t we get AI to fix that?

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

#1. Dave Granlund

#2. John Darkow

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#3. Bob Englehart

#4. John Darkow

#5.Dave Whamond

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Dave Whamond

#8. Chris Weyant

#9. Dick Wright

#10. John Darkow

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The Top Ten Week I Missed! So Hot!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 28, 2023

Here’s the Top Ten of the week that I was away at the San Diego Comic Con.

It’s always hot in the summer, but this year nature has taken things up a notch. Cities across the country are breaking their own heat records. Not surprisingly, a good amount of our most-reprinted cartoons this week focused on the weather, and when we might get some relief from his latest heat wave.

#1. Rivers

#2. John Darkow

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#3. Frank Hansen

#4. Rivers

#5. Dave Granlund –this cartoon hung around to be the #1 cartoon in the next week –that’s pretty unusual around here.

#6. John Darkow

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. John Darkow

#9. Taylor Jones

#10. R.J. Matson

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LIZ CHENEY LAMENT: TOP TEN CARTOONS

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 26, 2022

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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Top Ten Cartoons, July 30, 2022

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date 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:

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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TRUE Crazy Stuff 2!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 3, 2018

Here’s another batch of my TRUE syndicated newspaper cartoons from 1995. I’m culling out the cartoons that are not too stale to include in our PoliticalCartoons.com database and making little changes so that don’t seem too dated; sometimes that is hard and I have to delete some of my favorite oldies. I’m letting quite a few old style TVs and land line phones sneak through.

I suppose it is more interesting that so little has changed.

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Cartoon Week in Review

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 30, 2011

It’s been a busy week – everything from a Norwegian terrorist to the death of a Grammy Award-winning singer, plus some debt ceiling nonsense thrown in for good measure and an end to the NFL lockout.

Want to recap? Then check out our new Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.

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Cartoon Week in Review

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date July 22, 2011

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It’s hot all across the country. It’s hot in Washington, where politicians can’t come together with an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. It’s hot in the media world, where Rupert Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal continues to roll along. It’s hot in Florida, Texas and many places across the country that will feel the pain of the end of the space shuttle program.

So sit back, cool off, and enjoy a look back at the week of big news stories through the eyes of the nation’s best cartoonists with our Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.