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Editorial Cartoons: The Latest Political Cartoons From Cagle

By CM Chaney · January 25, 2025

Just Bad Optics

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

Unity And The Gulf

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

The Stain

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

Trump Eats Puffins

About Taylor Jones - Taylor Jones has been drawing caricatures, political cartoons and editorial illustrations for a rather long time. He does very little else except fidget, drawing for Cagle Cartoons and the Hoover Digest.  CagleCartoons.com

Black Hole Appears

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

Right-Hand Man

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 Swallows Up The Republican Party

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. 6 Pardons

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

Trump Swears On X

About Christo Komarnitski - Christo Komarnitski is a Bulgarian cartoonist for the daily newspaper Sega ("Now").  CagleCartoons.com

Free At Last

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

Trump Tariffs

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

Pardons Insurrectionist Minions

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

Biden's Pardons For Family and Friends

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

American Oil

About Vladimir Kazanevsky - Vladimir Kazanevsky was born in 1950 in Ukraine. He works as a free-lance cartoonist and writer. Vlad`s art work has been exhibited worlwide, published in many magazines and newspapers and has won about 500 prizes from International cartoon contests in 52 countries.  CagleCartoons.com

Trump Is Back

About Osama Hajjaj - Osama Hajjaj is a Jordanian political cartoonist, and is a cartoonist and senior designer for Hajjaj Brothers Creative Productions.  CagleCartoons.com

Buying Power And Influence

About Ed Wexler - Ed served as a Creative Director at Disney Television Animation for nearly 30 years. He was also the illustrator for the Washington Whispers page in US News and World Report for 11 years, and created a series of popular group caricature covers and spreads for The Hollywood Reporter’s Emmy Awards and Academy Awards special issues for many years as well.Ed was nominated for an Emmy Award for animation direction.His editorial cartoons are internationally syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

Lord Of The Rings

About Nikola Listes - Nikola Listes was born 1960. in Split, Croatia. he worked for many newspapers and magazines all over the world (Playboy, West Australlien, Heideheimer Neue Presse, Die Bricke...). He has received more than seventy international awards.  CagleCartoons.com

Inauguration Speech And TikTok

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

Shakespeare Changes The Wording

About Marian Kamensky - Marian Kamensky is the editorial cartoonist for the Swiss satirical montly magazine Nebelspalter and Germany's satirical magazine Eulenspiegel and Playboy magazine. He is currently living in Vienna.   CagleCartoons.com

Trump Cancels Drag Queens

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

Hollywood Fires

About NEMO - Editorial Cartooning, Illustration, Design, Branding, Storyboarding, Teaching Arts & Communications.  CagleCartoons.com

Nazi-Adjacent

About Ed Wexler - Ed served as a Creative Director at Disney Television Animation for nearly 30 years. He was also the illustrator for the Washington Whispers page in US News and World Report for 11 years, and created a series of popular group caricature covers and spreads for The Hollywood Reporter’s Emmy Awards and Academy Awards special issues for many years as well.Ed was nominated for an Emmy Award for animation direction.His editorial cartoons are internationally syndicated by Cagle Cartoons.  CagleCartoons.com

The Golden Age Of America

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

Trump Rollercoaster

About Vladimir Kazanevsky - Vladimir Kazanevsky was born in 1950 in Ukraine. He works as a free-lance cartoonist and writer. Vlad`s art work has been exhibited worlwide, published in many magazines and newspapers and has won about 500 prizes from International cartoon contests in 52 countries.  CagleCartoons.com

Iceberg Trump

About Arend van Dam - Arend van Dam studied psychology st the University of Amsterdam and went on to become an illustrator, comic artist and cartoonist  CagleCartoons.com

Ceasfire In Gaza

About Marian Kamensky - Marian Kamensky is the editorial cartoonist for the Swiss satirical montly magazine Nebelspalter and Germany's satirical magazine Eulenspiegel and Playboy magazine. He is currently living in Vienna.   CagleCartoons.com

Jan. 6 Pardons

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's Executive Orders

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

Trump Drills America First

About Joep Bertrams - Joep Bertrams is a Dutch political cartoonist whose work appears in the Amsterdam-based daily newspaper Het Parool and the TV program NOVA .  CagleCartoons.com

Building Tarrif Walls

About Arend van Dam - Arend van Dam studied psychology st the University of Amsterdam and went on to become an illustrator, comic artist and cartoonist  CagleCartoons.com