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Social Media Drug Pushers Top 10 Political Cartoons of the Week

In a landmark case last month, a California jury found Meta and YouTube liable for designing their platforms to be addictive and harmful to children.

Since everyone uses social media these days, a number of our most-reprinted cartoons this week focused on the ruling and the harm these platforms continue to create,.

Our top cartoon this week, drawn by R.J. Matson, draws on a classic 1980s commercial to compare social media to addictive drugs.

John Darkow goes a bit further, showing social media companies as bad guys trying to woo kids and get them hooked, something they’ve now been found liable of doing.

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


#1. R.J. Matson


#2. Dave Whamond


#3. John Darkow

And don’t forget our great slideshow-style Caglecast video podcast packed with 100+ brilliant Iran War cartoons. Look!  Enjoy!

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Want to hear cartoonists talk about the cartoons as you see them? Then this Iran War cartoon Cagledast is the one for you!  This one is a cartoon slideshow on top of a discussion by our Iranian cartoonist Nik Kowsar who has lots of great war cartoon insights.

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#4. John Darkow


#5. Dave Granlund


#6. Chris Weyant


#7. Jeff Koterba


#8. Bob Englehart


#9. Dave Granlund


#10. Dave Granlund

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Spring Break TSA Nightmare: Top Ten Cartoons of the Week

As spring break nears, good luck getting on an airplane.

Thanks to a partial government shutdown, airports across the country have been dealing with long lines at security checkpoints due to unpaid TSA agents calling out. And it doesn’t seem like ICE agents deployed by Trump are doing much to help.

Our most popular cartoon of the week, drawn by R.J. Matson, draws on the anger over long lines and the blame game in Washington, where politics dominates everything.

Editors also liked John Darkow’s TSA cartoon, which features a comically long line of angry passengers. Wait until they see the cost of the ticket.

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

#1. R.J. Matson

#2. John Darkow

And don’t forget our great slideshow-style Caglecast video podcast packed with 100+ brilliant Iran War cartoons. Look!  Enjoy!

Trump's Iran Cartoon Apocalypse! Caglecast!

Go! Now! Marvel at the cartoon masterpieces.


Want to hear cartoonists talk about the cartoons as you see them? Then this Iran War cartoon Cagledast is the one for you!  This one is a cartoon slideshow on top of a discussion by our Iranian cartoonist Nik Kowsar who has lots of great war cartoon insights.

Go! Watch!

#3. John Darkow

#4. R.J. Matson

#5. John Darkow

#6. Bruce Plante

#7. Jeff Koterba

#8. Harley Schwadron

#9. Dave Granlund

#10. Harley Schwadron

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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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Matson on Romney's Flub, Role of Local Cartoons

R.J. Matson, the editorial cartoonist for Roll Call in Washington, D.C. (and who I syndicate via Cagle Cartoons) came up with an original take on Mitt Romney’s much-maligned comments following the tragic attack on the U.S. consulate on Benghazi, Libya:

Matson is one of the most prolific editorial cartoonists working today. In addition to his job with Roll Call, Matson was the daily staff cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for seven years, before being laid-off last month as part of a paper-wide cutback of employees to save money.

I interviewed Matson about being laid-off, and he shares my fear about the future of editorial cartoons, which are more popular than ever online and in syndication, but threatened by these continued job cuts.

“It’s such a difficult job to do well day after day, I don’t see how cartoonist can crank out stuff like that unless it’s a full-paid job treated with a lot of respect by the publisher,” Matson said.

“The cartoonist is essentially a columnist and a vital voice for the paper, and a vital voice for the community,” Matson continued. “People love to see events in their town reflected back in editorial cartoons… If newspapers give up on that, they’re giving up on their local scene.”

Here’s the interview:

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The Do Nothing Congress Olympics

With the Olympics in full-swing, I thought I’d share this clever mini-series of cartoons from our own R.J. Matson, the political cartoonist for Roll Call. Sadly, these cartoons are right on the mark about a Congress with an approval rating of just 12 percent:




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Cartoonist Matson Among Layoffs at Post-Dispatch

On Friday, Lee Enterprises announced it was laying off  nearly two dozen employees at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 14 of which came from their newsroom. Among the laid-off journalist is someone familiar to Cagle.com readers – their staff cartoonist, R.J. Matson.

R.J. Matson

Matson, whose cartoons I syndicate to newspapers nationally with Cagle Cartoons, moved to St. Louis in 2007 to become the staff cartoonist at the Post-Dispatch, and has survived many cutbacks and layoffs along the way.

“I had a good seven year run. No regrets. I had the honor of working with a lot of great journalists, many of whom were laid off or jumped ship, during my time at the Post-Dispatch,” Matson said.  “When my number came up, I didn’t take it personally.”

We will continue to syndicate Matson’s great cartoons. He’ll continue to draw four cartoons a week for Roll Call, but he’ll miss drawing cartoons about the local politics of St. Louis and Missouri.

“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” Matson said.  “But desperate measures won’t bring in new readers and will alienate a lot of loyal readers, many of whom really like to see their community reflected in local editorial cartoons.”

You can view Matson’s terrific cartoons here.