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Editorial Cartoons: The Latest Political Cartoons From Cagle

By CM Chaney · January 29, 2025

Tortoise And The Hair

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

TikTok Security Threat

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

Aggressive Trump

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

Deport Immigrants

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

Golden Eggs

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

Bishop Scolds Trump

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

Everything Is A Nazi

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

Trump Meets Putin

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 Felon Back At Capitol

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

Green Lighting

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

Not An American

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 Slams Bishop Budde

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

Empathy For Californians

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

ICE Arresting Hundreds Of Illegal Alient Criminals

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

ICE Boot Over Schools, Churches and Hospitals

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

Ice Round-Up

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

The US Empire

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

White House Flag

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

Trump Back In Power

About Patrick Corrigan - Patrick Corrigan, born in Toronto’s Beaches area in 1951, has spent most of his life in the city. After studying at the Ontario College of Art, he worked various jobs—taxi driver, health food store owner, and train dishwasher—before joining The Toronto Star as an illustrator in 1983 and editorial cartoonist in 1992. A three-time National Newspaper Award nominee, he’s also an avid golfer, curler, and hockey fan, residing on the Danforth with his wife, Sue-Ann.  CagleCartoons.com

Dancing Past Jail

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

Americans Buying TikTok

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

Snuffing Out Democracy

About Patrick Corrigan - Patrick Corrigan, born in Toronto’s Beaches area in 1951, has spent most of his life in the city. After studying at the Ontario College of Art, he worked various jobs—taxi driver, health food store owner, and train dishwasher—before joining The Toronto Star as an illustrator in 1983 and editorial cartoonist in 1992. A three-time National Newspaper Award nominee, he’s also an avid golfer, curler, and hockey fan, residing on the Danforth with his wife, Sue-Ann.  CagleCartoons.com

Thinks He's The Victim

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 Wins An Oscar

About Patrick Corrigan - Patrick Corrigan, born in Toronto’s Beaches area in 1951, has spent most of his life in the city. After studying at the Ontario College of Art, he worked various jobs—taxi driver, health food store owner, and train dishwasher—before joining The Toronto Star as an illustrator in 1983 and editorial cartoonist in 1992. A three-time National Newspaper Award nominee, he’s also an avid golfer, curler, and hockey fan, residing on the Danforth with his wife, Sue-Ann.  CagleCartoons.com

DC Destroyed By Trump

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

Trump Indictments

About Patrick Corrigan - Patrick Corrigan, born in Toronto’s Beaches area in 1951, has spent most of his life in the city. After studying at the Ontario College of Art, he worked various jobs—taxi driver, health food store owner, and train dishwasher—before joining The Toronto Star as an illustrator in 1983 and editorial cartoonist in 1992. A three-time National Newspaper Award nominee, he’s also an avid golfer, curler, and hockey fan, residing on the Danforth with his wife, Sue-Ann.  CagleCartoons.com

Make McKinley Great Again

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

Trump Coins For Sale

About Bas van der Schot - Bas van der Schot works as a political cartoonist/illustrator for the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. He also makes illustrations for several magazines in the Netherlands and abroad.  CagleCartoons.com

The Fourth Estate

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

Threatening Canada

About Patrick Corrigan - Patrick Corrigan, born in Toronto’s Beaches area in 1951, has spent most of his life in the city. After studying at the Ontario College of Art, he worked various jobs—taxi driver, health food store owner, and train dishwasher—before joining The Toronto Star as an illustrator in 1983 and editorial cartoonist in 1992. A three-time National Newspaper Award nominee, he’s also an avid golfer, curler, and hockey fan, residing on the Danforth with his wife, Sue-Ann.  CagleCartoons.com

A Scientist And A MAGA Guy At A Bar

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

Melania And Company

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

Drill Baby Drill

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

Tariff Threat

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

Dragging Liberty

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