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Editorial: The Latest Political Cartoons From Cagle

By CM Chaney · February 1, 2025

Modern Groundhog

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

On Strike

About Alla and Chavdar - Alla and Chavdar work together. They have been cartoonists for more than 30 years and draw for the Bulgarian national humor newspaper, Prass Press.  CagleCartoons.com

51st State

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

Trapped In ICE Brain

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

Big Pharma

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

Foreign Meddling Monsters

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

Expensive Healthcare

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

About Bart van Leeuwen - Bart van Leeuwen lives and works as a freelancer in Amsterdam where he specializes in editorial illustration. He is the winner of the Junior Inktspotprijs 2017.  CagleCartoons.com

Bought Crypto

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

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

AI Meets Wall Street

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

Signature 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

Pay Off Debt

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

Hegseth's Defense Department

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 Checking For DEI

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

Illegal Immigrant 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

Groundhog Day

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

Southern Snowfall

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

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

I Want You

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

Cycles Of Democratic Outrage

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

Success In Entertainment

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

The Apprentice 2

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

China AI DeepSeek

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

China Deal

About Terry Mosher - Terry Mosher (Aislin) draws cartoons for The Montreal Gazette.  CagleCartoons.com

Just Short

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

Invade Greenland

About Terry Mosher - Terry Mosher (Aislin) draws cartoons for The Montreal Gazette.  CagleCartoons.com

Musk And 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

Trump In Greenland

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

Chinese AI

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