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Big Freeze and ICE: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

Let it snow?

While I’m here enjoying the warm weather in California, most of the eastern U.S. has been buried under the snow for going on a week.

Our most-reprinted cartoon this week is a funny one by John Darkow, employing Punxsutawney Phil in an attempt to predict an early spring.

Editors also enjoyed Dave Whamond’s cartoon mixing the cold weather with the public’s growing distrust of ICE. I got a kick out of Dave Granlund’s cartoon, about how we all devolve into cavemen when a few flakes hit the ground.

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

#1. John Darkow

#2. Harley Schwadron

#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Whamond

#5. Jonathan Brown

#6. Sean Delonas

#7. Bob Englehart

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. John Darkow

#10. Chris Weyant

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ICE Raids and a New Steve Sack Cartoon!

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.

The ugly ICE news also motivated me to do a Caglecast with 131 of our best ICE editorial cartoons.  This one is a “must see.”  Come take a look.

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:

Don’t miss this Caglecast, it is a great one, and it is a slideshow rather than talking cartoonists, which most of you seem to prefer.  Please like and subscribe on YouTube –that’s a great help to us.

You can also see all of our Caglecasts video podcasts on Caglecast.com.

Thanks! Thanks!
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Dangerous data centers: Top ten cartoons of the week

With tech companies squeezing A.I.-powered tools into every product they can, energy-hungry data centers are popping up across the country to provide the necessary processing power.

Our most popular cartoon this week, from the pen of John Cole, visualizes the problem with a giant yellow bird putting pressure on the power grid. Pat Bagley also drew a popular data center cartoon focused on a real farmer’s fear.

Otherwise, the focus continues to be on high prices. Can’t A.I. do something about that?

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

#1. John Cole

#2. Milt Priggee

 

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#3. Jonathan Brown

#4. John Darkow

#5. Pat Bagley

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Whamond

#8. Dave Granlund

#9. Rick McKee

#10. Harley Schwadron

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A.I. Anxieties: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

This week, critics pounced on Time magazine for naming the architects of artificial intelligence its person (people?) of the year.

Our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, drawn by Dave Whamond, mocks the cover as something A.I. itself would come up with. Jeff Koterba also contributed to the anti-robot vibe with a funny cartoon about life with an A.I. chatbot.

Elsewhere on our top ten list, John Darkow drew a popular cartoon about Republicans not extending ObamaCare tax credits before leaving town and heading home for the holidays. Must be nice to have stable, inexpensive congressional healthcare watching over them.

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

#1. Dave Whamond

#2. Jeff Koterba

We have a great new Christmas Caglecast! Its fun!  Come watch!
#3. Dave Whamond

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Guy Schwadron

#6. John Darkow

#7. Ed Wexler

#8. Harley Schwadron

#9. Chris Weyant

#10. Jeff Koterba

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Democrats cave: Top ten cartoons of the week

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

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. Bruce Plante

#5. Dave Granlund

#6. Bob Englehart

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. Rick McKee

#9. Margolis & Cox

#10. Rick McKee

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No One’s Listening: Top 10 Must-See Political Cartoons Exposing the Government Shutdown Chaos!

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

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. Gary McCoy

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. Dick Wright

#9. R.J. Matson

#10. Harley Schwadron

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California’s Proposition 50 and Gerrymandering!

Today is election day!  Go Vote!

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.

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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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Shutdown Drags On: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

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

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. John Cole

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. John Cole

#7. Pat Byrnes

#8. Bob Englehart

#9. John Darkow

#10. R.J. Matson

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Charlie Kirk and civil discourse: Top ten cartoons of the week

Cartoons are still just coming in following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but the tragic death of the young pundit is clearly the focus of both readers and editors as the week ends.

Jeff Koterba’s cartoon showing the Statue of Liberty’s bloody torch of “civil discourse” is already one of our most-reprinted cartoons this week. R.J. Matson’s popular 9/11 cartoon highlighted the growing political divide that might have played a role in Kirk’s untimely death at the end of an assassin’s bullet.

Our most-reprinted cartoon wasn’t about a news topic at all – it was Rick McKee’s fun look at the return of football, which is as good a form of distraction as anything else these days… unless you’re a New York Jets fan.

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

#1. Rick McKee

#2. Dave Granlund

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. Jeff Koterba

#4. R.J. Matson

#5. R.J. Matson

#6. Dave Granlund

#7. Rick McKee

#8. John Darkow

#9. Dave Whamond

#10. John Darkow

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