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Fireworks galore: Top ten cartoons of the week

There’s been plenty of fireworks to go around recently, between Trump’s combative rhetoric and Congress passing a controversial budget that cuts taxes and Medicaid.

Thankfully this week we get fun fireworks added to the mix as we celebrate our country’s birthday, despite our founders believing we’d all be eating burgers and drinking beers on July 4.

While this week’s top ten list is dominated by the holiday, our most-reprinted cartoon mocks the hapless Democrats, where the fireworks are between the party’s young activists and old guard.

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

#1. Chris Weyant

#2. Gary McCoy

At about the same time that our cartoonist, Zehra Omeroglu was aquitted, and is no longer facing three years in Turkish prison.  This week, another cartoonist in Turkey, Dogan Pehlivan (along with the editorial staff of the Le Man magazine) was arrested for drawing a cartoon that Turkish authorities didn’t like – this is the same magazine that published Zehra’s offending cartoon.

See Zehra tell her story and show her cartoon that got her arrested at 4:09 in our video below.

#3. Bruce Plante

#4. Jonathan Brown

#5. Bob Englehart

#6. Dave Whamond

#7. Dave Granlund

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. John Darkow

#10. R.J. Matson

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No Jail for Zehra! Our Cartoonist from Turkey is Acquitted!

Our CagleCartoonist from Turkey, Zehra Ömeroglu, was just acquitted! Zehra has been on trial for “obscenity” in Turkey, facing a possible sentence of three years in prison; she fled to Germany while the trial continued in her absence. You can see Zehra’s cartoons and bio on Cagle.com here: https://cagle.com/zehra

See Zehra tell her story and show her cartoon that got her arrested at 4:09 in the video below.
Also on the podcast are CagleCartoonist Emad Hajjaj, who was jailed in Jordan for a cartoon, and now lives in Virginia, along with Terry Anderson from CartoonistsRights.org.

This podcast is called “Jailed Cartoonists and the Cartoons that put them in JAIL.” I’ll do a followup podcast with Zehra soon and she’ll tell us about her last few months, about how she’s doing after the acquittal, and she’ll tell us about the new graphic novel she’s working on, about her five years on trial, threatened with years in prison in Turkey.  Scary stuff!

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Thanksgiving Wrap-up – Top 10 Cartoons

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and the least surprising development was the popularity of our turkey day cartoons.

Some cartoonists hate drawing holiday cartoons, but editors and readers clearly love them. Especially in a year where sweeping political change is heading towards Washington.

Rick McKee won the holiday, penning our three most popular cartoons of the week. Turns out lots of people were worried about politics ruining their feasts.

I also enjoyed Dave Granlund’s cartoon comparing the crowded conditions on the Mayflower with the congested roads of Thanksgiving today.

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

#1. Rick McKee

And don’t miss our new video podcast on YouTube about brave world cartoonists who face years in prison to chill their cartoons!  Could America’s cartoonists be headed toward this fate?

#2. Rick McKee

#3. Rick McKee

#4. Dave Granlund

#5. Bill Day

#6. Randall Enos

#7. Bob Englehart

#8. Gary McCoy

#9. Monte Wolverton

#10. Bill Day

And don’t miss this important Caglecast!

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ELECTION’S END: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

You might have heard; there was an election this week. While there is a good deal that remains uncertain (Georgia’s Senate race won’t be settled until next month), one thing that seems universal is our exhaustion over election ads and petty bickering from candidates.

Fortunately, we can all now safely turn on our TVs and not be afraid of eerie music playing behind black and white images of craven politicians attacking one another. We’ll just have to wait a bit longer for those lawn signs to be removed.

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

#1. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#2. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#3. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#4. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#6. Randall Enos, Cagle.com

 

#7. Rivers, Cagle.com

 

#8. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#9. John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#10. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

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Top Ten Cartoons – New Green Deal

Last week, President Joe Biden announced he will pardon thousands of Americans federally convicted of marijuana possession. It didn’t take long for cartoonists to twist the acronym POTUS into fun riffs on pot and new green deals.

The upcoming midterm elections were also on the minds of cartoonists and editors last week. While cartoonists love the candidates and craziness that comes with national elections every couple of years, for most voters Nov. 8 can’t get here soon enough.

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

#1. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#2. Bob Englehart, Cagle.com

 

#3. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#4. Dave Whamond, Cagle.com

 

#5. Jeff Koterba, Cagle.com

 

#6.John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

 

#7. Randal Enos, Cagle.com

 

#8. Dave Granlund, Cagle.com

 

#9. Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

 

#10. David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – November 27th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  November 27th, 2021. Every popular cartoon this week had a holiday theme.

Jeff Koterba again had the most reprinted cartoon of the week, which appeared in about 172 newspapers. Jeff also has two cartoons in the Top Ten and was our most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall.

Kudos to Rick McKee and Dave Whamond who have two cartoons each in the Top Ten – actually it is the Top Eleven this week because we have a tie for #10.

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.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot.

#2

Dave Granlund (who was the most reprinted cartoonist of the week, overall this week) placed second.

#3

Jeff Koterba nabbed third place.

#4

Rick McKee took 4th place.

#5

Bob Englehart claims the five-spot.

#6

Bob Englehart came in sixth with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

John Darkow nabs seventh place.

#8

John Cole took 8th place.

#9

Dave Granlund takes 9th place.

#10

Rick McKee is tied for number ten!

#10

Guy Parsons shares the tie for #10, making this week’s list a “Top Eleven”.

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – November 20th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  November 20th, 2021. Jeff Koterba had the most reprinted cartoon of the week, which appeared in about 164 newspapers.

Kudos to Bob Englehart who has two cartoons in the Top Ten! And congratulations to Steve Sack who was our most reprinted cartoonist again this week, overall.

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#1

Jeff Koterba took the #1 spot.

#2

Steve Sack (who was the most reprinted cartoonist of the week, overall this week) placed second.

#3

Rick McKee nabbed third place.

#4

John Darkow took 4th place.

#5

Bob Englehart claims the five-spot.

#6

Bob Englehart came in sixth with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.

#7

Adam Zyglis nabs seventh place.

#8

John Cole took 8th place.

#9

Dave Granlund takes 9th place.

#10

John Darkow wraps up the list at number ten!

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – November 13th, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of the week ending  November 13th, 2021.  Chris Weyant had the most reprinted cartoon of the week, which appeared in about 118 newspapers.

Kudos to Jeff Koterba who has three cartoons in the Top Ten! And congratulations to Dave Whamond who was our most reprinted cartoonist again this 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.

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#1

Chris Weyant took the #1 spot.

#2

Dave Whamond (who was the most reprinted cartoonist of the week, overall again this week) placed second.

#3

Ed Wexler nabbed third place.

#4

Jeff Koterba took 4th place.

#5

Dick Wright claims the five-spot.

#6

Christopher Weyant came in sixth.

#7

Jeff Koterba nabs seventh place with his second cartoon on the Top Ten.

#8

Dave Fitzsimmons took 8th place.

#9

Guy Parsons takes 9th place with his first appearance in the Top Ten.

#10

Jeff Koterba with his third cartoon in the Top Ten!

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Murdering Saudi Prince Cartoons

The Biden Administration is declassifying and releasing an intelligence report that concludes that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman order the murder of Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed and sawed into pieces when we visited the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul to get a wedding license.

Here’s one I drew earlier – but I forgot to send to newspapers, so I’m sending this oldie out like it’s new.

Here are some of my favorite murdering Saudi prince cartoons by the CagleCartoonists …

 

Steve Sack

Dave Granlund

 

Stephane Peray

Bart van Leeuwen

 

Gary McCoy

 

Tom Janssen

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The First Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I went back through our vast, PoliticalCartoons.com archives to find my favorite oldies about the First Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

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The first one is by the late, great, Mike Lane, the former Baltimore Sun cartoonist who was one of the founding cartoonists in our group when I started the CagleCartoons syndicate nearly 20 years ago. I miss Mike.

 

This one is by Jeff Parker, the former editorial cartoonist for Florida Today.  Jeff retired from editorial cartooning to draw the “Dustin” comic strip with Steve Kelley.  We miss Jeff!

 

This one is by Bill Schorr, former cartoonist for The New York Daily News, The Kansas City Star and The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Bill retired and we miss Bill too!

 

The next three are by the great Dave Fitzsimmons, the cartoonist for The Arizona Daily Star.

 

The next two are from Bob Englehart, the former cartoonist for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, who still draws for us and is very popular.

 

These two are by Rick McKee, the former cartoonist for The Augusta Chronicle in Georgia, who thankfully hasn’t retired. Rick also draws the classic comic panel “Pluggers” and a new comic strip, “Mt. Pleasant”.

 

This one is by the great John Darkow who draws for The Columbian Missourian and used to draw for The Columbia Daily Tribune.

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Thanksgiving Transition

Here’s my new “Do it Yourself” Thanksgiving Transition Cartoon. It requires a printer, a pair of scissors and some glue.

Yes, I know that scissors and glue are old school. I’m old too.  Here are some more of my favorite Thanksgiving Transition cartoons from the CagleCartoonists.

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Peter Kuper

 

Chris Weyant

 

Pat Bagley

 

Jeff Koterba

 

Rick McKee

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Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – November 21, 2020

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (November 14th through November 21st 2020). The Top Ten cartoons dominated newspaper editors’ choices this week with all ten tightly bunched, close to equally popular and far ahead of the rest of the cartoons in reprints.

Thanksgiving/pandemic combo cartoons were most popular this week, with six of these making the Top Ten. Again, no drawings of Trump were popular with editors, even while Trump continues to dominate the news. Editors avoided scores of cartoons about the messy presidential transition, crazy Rudy Guiliani and claims of election fraud.  As usual, no foreign topics were popular with American editors. Only one cartoon on the list (Bob Englehart at #2) expresses a political view, however mildly – unless concern about the pandemic is considered a political view.

Congratulations to Dave Whamond for his #1 cartoon.  Kudos to Jeff Koterba and Dave Fitzsimmons who both have two cartoons in the Top Ten!

And congrats to the other cartoonists who made the Top Ten list this week: Bob Englehart, John Darkow, Dave Granlund, Bruce Plante, and me.

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 62 cartoonists in our CagleCartoons.com syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com. 

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#1

Dave Whamond’s Thanksgiving/pandemic/Rockwell cartoon takes first place.

 

#2

Bob Englehart takes second place with one of the few political cartoons mentioning politics that editors liked this week.

 

#3

John Darkow snags third place with this Thanksgiving/pandemic cartoon.

 

#4

Jeff Koterba wins 4th place with another Thanksgiving/pandemic cartoon, the first of two cartoons on the list for Jeff.

 

#5

Dave Granlund takes fifth place with yet another Thanksgiving/pandemic cartoon.

 

#6

Bruce Plante nabs 6th place with yet another Thanksgiving/pandemic cartoon.

 

#7

Jeff Koterba mixes up 7th place with a New Years/pandemic cartoon. Editors love cartoons about how bad 2020 is. This is the first of two cartoons on the Top Ten about the new vaccines and it is Jeff’s second cartoon in the Top Ten this week.

 

#8

Daryl Cagle (that’s me) takes 8th place with the second vaccine cartoon on the list.

 

#8

Dave Fitzsimmons is tied for 8th place with this Pandemic/Back to School/Zoom/Kitty cartoon. Gotta love kitties.

 

#10

Dave Fitzsimmons takes 10th place with his second Top Ten cartoon and the sixth Thanksgiving/pandemic cartoon on the list this week.

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