Cartoons and Comics

1. High Gas Prices and a Hodgepodge of Top Ten Cartoons!

   Can we get to Election Day without another assassination attempt targeting our presidential candidates? A potential gunman outside Donald Trump’s Florida golf course was shot at and apprehended by authorities last weekend, calling into question how rigorous security is around the former president. Rick McKee compared Trump’s security detail to a slice of stinky cheese…

2. Rivers Retires

   Our anonymous, conservative cartoonist, Rivers, has retired. Here’s the cartoon that Rivers drew to announce his retirement. Rivers was controversial for for his far-right views, generating much of the angry email we receive, along with “cancel culture” demands that we drop him from our line up.

3. Debate Debacle – Top Ten Cartoons of the Week!

   That debate was… something. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced off for the first time this week, and cartoonists seem to have focused their efforts on the former president’s false claim migrants are eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio. I liked Jeff Koterba’s cartoon, which melded Trump’s “They’re eating the dogs” line and…

4. Top Ten Cartoons! Football Widows and Battleground States!

   Ads, ads, and more ads. If you are unlucky enough to live in a battleground state, you’ve probably been inundated with an endless stream of campaign commercials. Bob Englehart’s widely-reprinted cartoon hit the nail on the head, while Dave Granlund and R.J. Matson both mocked the idea voters could still be undecided after such a…

5. Trump Mud Romp and the Best of Wexler and Jones

   Our brand new Caglecast features brilliant caricaturists Ed Wexler and Taylor Jones along with their favorite Trump Bashing cartoons. Readers have written asking for the cartoonists to talk more about their art process, so Ed and Taylor show off a bunch of their favorite cartoons and discuss discuss how they approach drawing celebrities in the…

6. Top Ten Cartoons! The election, old hippies, and back to school!

   It’s been a whirlwind month in the world of politics, capped off by the Democratic National Convention and Kamala Harris officially accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. One of our most-reprinted cartoons this week was a celebration of Joe Biden by Chris Weyant, who gained newfound popularity among Democrats after dropping out of the race. It…

7. I Just Did My First Cartoon in Procreate

   Here is my first try at doing a cartoon in Procreate. It is my first steps.  Like a baby picture.  I’ve been getting my arm twisted by my son and a bunch of my artists to get off of Photoshop and my desktop Mac, and move to Procreate on an iPad.  Here’s a detail.

8. Catching up! Back to School Blues Top Ten!

   Wow! Two Top Ten Catoons fo the Week in two days!  Well … that’s because I was traveling and I’m back now and slowly catching up.  This one is the latest Top Ten, for last week!  Really!   And I’ll get a new podcast up very soon – I promise!

9. Economic roller coaster: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK

   Wall Street gave everyone whiplash last week, with stocks tanking before bouncing back in a late-week comeback. Dave Granlund’s “The sky is falling!” cartoon was popular among editors this week, and I loved the imagery of Chris Weyant’s Olympics-inspired toon about the brief stock market crash.

10. Stuck in space: Top ten cartoons of the week

    The U.S. will have a new president before two astronauts trapped in space will be able to return home. Thanks to issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will be stuck on the International Space Station until at least February, when either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be living in the…