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Editorial: The Latest Political Cartoons From Cagle

By CM Chaney · January 23, 2025

Executive Orders

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

Trump Tower Of Promises

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

California Wildfires

About Manny Francisco - Manuel Francisco is the editorial cartoonist for The Manila Times, the oldest existing English language newspaper in the Philippines. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Allegiance To Plutocracy

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 2.0

About Martin Sutovec - Martin Sutovec (alias Shooty) is a well-known caricaturist and cartoonist in Slovakia, and draws for Dennik N.  CagleCartoons.com

Washington DC

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

Chilling Authoritarianism

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

On The Bright Side

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

Drill Threatens Earth

About Monte Wolverton - Monte Wolverton is best known as a contributor to MAD Magazine and son of Mad great Basil Wolverton. He is also the editor of The Plain Truth. magazine. He draws two editorial cartoons per week and is syndicated to newspapers around the world by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Saves TikTok

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

Clap For Trump

About Pat Bagley - Pat Bagley is the staff cartoonist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, and an author and illustrator of several books. His cartoons are syndicated nationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Musk Wants

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

Trump Inauguration With Musk

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

Lincoln In Prayer

About Jeff Koterba - After 31 years as the cartoonist for Nebraska's largest newspaper, Jeff suddenly found himself laid off. So he greatly appreciates the support of fans to keep drawing. Jeff's brilliant and moderate editorial cartoons are syndicated around the world and his original drawings have also flown aboard space shuttle Discovery. He's given Ted talks and is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Prairie Cats, a swing and jump-blues band that has performed around the U.S. including the South by Southwest Music Festival. And he may be the most popular cartoonist with editors on all of Cagle.com.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Bible, Inauguration Edition

About Pat Byrnes - Pat Byrnes is a long-time cartoonist for The New Yorker, illustrator, humorist, and winner of the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver Reuben. Previous careers include voice actor, ad copywriter, and aerospace engineer.  CagleCartoons.com

Canada Bolsters Border Security

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

Oligarchy In America

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

Combat Greed

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

Uncle Sam and Mr. Hyde

About Pat Byrnes - Pat Byrnes is a long-time cartoonist for The New Yorker, illustrator, humorist, and winner of the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver Reuben. Previous careers include voice actor, ad copywriter, and aerospace engineer.  CagleCartoons.com

White House Sold

About Guy Parsons - Guy is a cartoonist, designer and illustrator. He has won a bunch of awards for illustration. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald.  CagleCartoons.com

The Information Never Existed

About Plop and KanKr - Plop & KanKr, alias Julie Besombes and Simon Baert, are a French cartoonist duo based in Béarn, publishing in the regional, national and international press (Le Monde, Siné Mensuel, Le Temps, Sud Ouest dimanche, Le Sans-Culotte 85, L’Anjou Laïque, La Galipote…) and on television (Une semaine dans le monde on France 24).  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Inauguration

About Guy Parsons - Guy is a cartoonist, designer and illustrator. He has won a bunch of awards for illustration. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald.  CagleCartoons.com

Exhausted Sharpie

About Randall Enos - For 68 years Randall Enos has done cartoons and illustrations for TV, movies, books, comic strips, magazines, newspapers, posters and the like. Clients have included NBC, The New York Times, The National Lampoon, Playboy, Time, Rolling Stone and many more.  CagleCartoons.com

47 Under The Watchful Eye

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

Trump 2

About Rayma Suprani - Rayma , one of the few female cartoonists in Venezuela, speaks about the role that humor plays in resisting tyranny, and how cartoons are the thermometers by which we measure freedom. She believes that critical drawings are crucial to testing the strengths of a democracy. RAYMA worked at El Universal, one of Venezuela’s largest newspapers, for 19 years before she was fired last year after publishing a cartoon that mocked the legacy of Hugo Chávez and the state of the Venezuelan health care system. She remains defiant, and reminds us that freedom of expression should have no limits. Humor is the key to ending repression, RAYMA says, and stresses that we should teach our children to wield pens, not guns.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Back In Office

About Gary McCoy - Gary McCoy and his brother Glenn create the internationally syndicated comic panel The Flying McCoys. Gary also freelances for Parade magazine, Playboy, greeting card companies and others.  CagleCartoons.com

Democratic Withdrawal And Biden Pardons

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

America's Future

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

Trump Roller Coaster

About Steve Greenberg - Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist and artist now in Arizona, drawing for Crooksandliars.com and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump: Season 2

About Dave Whamond - Dave Whamonds work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest and many more. He has won 7 Silver Reubens from the National Cartoonists Society and several book awards. Dave has written and/or illustrated over 50 books and his syndicated comic, "Reality Check", has appeared in newspapers since 1995.  CagleCartoons.com

Inauguration

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

Futility Of War

About Chris Weyant - Chris Weyant draws political cartoons for The Boston Globe, and the New Yorker.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump World

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

Oligopoly: The Game

About Chris Weyant - Chris Weyant draws political cartoons for The Boston Globe, and the New Yorker.  CagleCartoons.com

The Return

About Angel Boligan - Cuban-born Angel Boligan lives in Mexico, and is the editorial cartoonist for El Universal, Learn More magazine and The Chamuca. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com