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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – February 6th, 2022

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  February 6th, 2022. Congratulations to Jeff Koterba who took both the #1 and #2 spots this week. I’m impressed! And kudos to John Darkow who also has two cartoons in the Top Ten. Dave Whamond was our most reprinted cartoonist for the week, overall.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot.

#2

Jeff Koterba took second place too!

#3

Ed Wexler took third place.

#4

John Darkow nabs 4th place with his first of two cartoons in the Top Ten.

#5

Rick McKee claims the five-spot.

#6

Monte Wolverton came in sixth.

#7

John Darkow nabs seventh place with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Whamond took 8th place.

#9

Steve Sack takes 9th place.

#10

Kevin Siers wraps it up at number ten.

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Sedition Favorites

Next week the Senate will take up the second impeachment of former president Trump. It is a good time to look back on my sedition favorites from the MAGA mob insurrection at the capitol.

My cartoon shows a MAGA guy bashing a policeman on the head with his Thin Blue Line flag. I thought this made for a nice wordless cartoon, but cartoons are supposed to be exaggeration and commentary, but this one actually happened; there was a guy in the mob doing just this – so I suppose this is more of an illustration than a political cartoon.

Here are some of my favorite cartoons about the Capitol insurrection, to set the mood for next week.

Bob Englehart

 

Rick McKee

 

Dave Whamond

 

Steve Sack

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Ted Cruz Monkey Poop

Today’s cartoon is based on one of my oldies that was based on a famous cartoon by the great British cartoonist, Steve Bell.  I’m a big Steve Bell fan.

Editors don’t like poop in cartoons, and this one isn’t likely to get much ink, but it makes me happy. Here’s the Steve Bell cartoon it is based on. Bell told a funny story at an old editorial cartoonists convention about how he had to negotiate with his editor about how many poops on the wall would be acceptable. I’m my own editor, and I can have as many poops as I want – still, I envy the British cartoonists who can get away with much stronger, nastier cartoons than American cartoonists can.

One more thing … I think editorial cartoonists who use labels are sissies, and I used a lot of labels here, but I didn’t label Ted Cruz, I only labeled his poop – an important distinction.

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