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Cartoons: The Latest Political Cartoons From Cagle

By CM Chaney · January 18, 2025

Applause From Republicans

About Dave Granlund - Dave Granlunds cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek.  CagleCartoons.com

Confirmation Jeopardy

About R.J. Matson - R.J. Matson is the editorial cartoonist with Roll Call, and is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Newsom, Bass Policies Responsible

About Dick Wright - Dick Wright has been an award winning editorial cartoonist for decades, drawing for the San Diego Union, the Providence Journal, Scripps-Howard Newspapers and the Columbus Dispatch.  CagleCartoons.com

Gaza Cease Fire

About Tom Janssen - Tom Janssen is a Dutch editorial cartoonist, working for the Dutch national daily Trouw and the Netherlands Press Association.  CagleCartoons.com

Inauguration Skipping

About Adam Zyglis - Adam Zyglis is the staff cartoonist for The Buffalo News. His cartoons are internationally syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

SecDef First Commands

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Borderline

About Steve Nease - For nearly nearly 30 years until 2008, Steve Nease was the art director at The Oakville Beaver, producing regular editorial cartoons and his family comic strip, Pud.  CagleCartoons.com

Don't Ask

About Jimmy Margulies - Jimmy Margulies is an editorial cartoonist in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City. He is the past winner of both the National Headliner Award and The Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.  CagleCartoons.com

Wildfires Blame Hydrant

About R.J. Matson - R.J. Matson is the editorial cartoonist with Roll Call, and is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Stormy Past

About Ingrid Rice - Ingrid Rice is a self-syndicated Canadian political cartoonist.  CagleCartoons.com

DEI Hire

About Rick McKee - Rick McKee is the staff cartoonist at The Augusta Chronicle. In 2006, McKee was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Along with everybody else.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Worrying China, Russia and North Korea

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Israel And Hamas

About Harley Schwadron - Harley Schwadron is a cartoonist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His cartoons have appeared in many major publications, including Barron’s, Harvard Business Review, Punch, Playboy, American Legion, New York Times, and Readers Digest. Many of Harley's cartoons deal with business, politics and financial investing. He has illustrated some 50 books.  CagleCartoons.com

String Attached

About John Darkow - John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Era Coming

About Graeme MacKay - Graeme MacKay born in Ontario, Canada, his worked as staff editorial cartoonist for The Hamilton Spectator since 1997, earning multiple national awards and nominations, including citations from the United Nations and the Association of Canadian Cartoonists.  CagleCartoons.com

Cost Of Ignoring Climate Change

About Peter Kuper - Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. He has lectured around the world and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University.  CagleCartoons.com

Jan. 20 Can't Come Fast Enough

About Dick Wright - Dick Wright has been an award winning editorial cartoonist for decades, drawing for the San Diego Union, the Providence Journal, Scripps-Howard Newspapers and the Columbus Dispatch.  CagleCartoons.com

Red Dye And Others

About Joe Heller - Joe Heller has been the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette since 1985, before that he was the cartoonist for the West Bend News.  CagleCartoons.com

Allow Me To Assist

About Dave Granlund - Dave Granlunds cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek.  CagleCartoons.com

The Post Truth Era

About Patrick Chappatte - Patrick Chappatte was an editorial cartoonist for The New York Times until the newspaper terminated all editorial cartoons in 2019. He now draws for The Boston Globe, as well as European media Der Spiegel, Le Canard Enchaîné, Le Temps and NZZ am Sonntag.  CagleCartoons.com

Hegseth The Mouthpiece

About Bill Day - Bill Day is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and his cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com  CagleCartoons.com

He Got Away Again

About Michael de Adder - Michael de Adder was a political cartoonist for various publications in Canada and the USA. His work has appeared in just about every newspaper in Canada. In 2020 he was awarded the Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.  CagleCartoons.com

We Can Use This

About Bruce Plante - Bruce Plante is an award winning, freelance editorial cartoonist in Oklahoma. Bruce drew cartoons for many years for The Tulsa World and the The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He drew for the Chattanooga Times-Free Press for 22 years.  CagleCartoons.com

Hegseth SecDef Nominee

About John Darkow - John Darkow has been a professional cartoonist for over 20 years, spending the last 10 as the staff cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He is syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

A Busy Day

About Bob Englehart - Bob Englehart was the editorial cartoonist for the Hartford Courant for 35 years when his job was eliminated by the hedge fund that bought the newspaper. Before that, he worked for Chicago Today, the Journal-Gazette in Ft. Wayne, IN and the Journal Herald in Dayton, OH. He studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago on scholarship. His progressive editorial cartoons have been distributed all over the world by CagleCartoons.com for nearly 20 years.  CagleCartoons.com

Giuliani Drags His Feet

About John Cole - John Cole is a freelancer who draws for: Tennessee Lookout, tennesseelookout.com Pennsylvania Capital-Star, PennCapital-Star.com The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC, thepilot.com NC Policy Watch, ncpolicywatch.com Virginia Mercury, virginiamercury.com John is syndicated by CagleCartoons.com  CagleCartoons.com

Confirmation Hearings

About Bill Day - Bill Day is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and his cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com  CagleCartoons.com

Fact Checking

About Joe Heller - Joe Heller has been the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette since 1985, before that he was the cartoonist for the West Bend News.  CagleCartoons.com

Telanes vs. Bezos & Disney

About Alexandra Bowman- Alexandra Bowman is the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' (AAEC) inaugural 2024 John Locher Memorial Fellow for excellence in editorial illustration. She is also a Director of the AAEC starting in 2025. She was the political cartoonist for the political action committee "The Lincoln Project." Her approach to political cartooning is inspired by her interests in classic 2D animation, late-night political comedy television, and principled, civil discourse.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Swearing In

About Jimmy Margulies - Jimmy Margulies is an editorial cartoonist in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City. He is the past winner of both the National Headliner Award and The Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.  CagleCartoons.com