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Today’s Best Political and Editorial Cartoons

By CM Chaney · July 10, 2025

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  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

About Margolis & Cox - Matt Margolis writes the cartoons, and John Cox illustrates the cartoons. Matt is a widely distributed, conservative author, commentator, and columnist for PJ Media. John has been creating editorial cartoons, producing striking caricatures, and illustrating book covers for numerous political authors for more than two decades.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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

About Margolis & Cox - Matt Margolis writes the cartoons, and John Cox illustrates the cartoons. Matt is a widely distributed, conservative author, commentator, and columnist for PJ Media. John has been creating editorial cartoons, producing striking caricatures, and illustrating book covers for numerous political authors for more than two decades.  Cagle Cartoons

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  Cagle Cartoons

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

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

About Stephane Peray - Born in 1964 . French . Based in Bangkok since 1989 . Has been published in more than 60 newspapers around the World . Cartoonist for the National English-language newspaper THE NATION in Thailand since 2003. Specialized in Asian news.  Cagle Cartoons

About Arcadio Esquivel - Arcadio Esquivel is a Costa Rican cartoonist, and draws for several newspapers and magazines all over the world, including La Prensa, Courrierinternational and Al Día.  Cagle Cartoons

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.  Cagle Cartoons

About Emad Hajjaj - Emad Hajjaj is a Jordanian political cartoonist, and is a cartoonist and senior designer for Hajjaj Brothers Creative Productions.  Cagle Cartoons

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

About Malcolm McGookin - Malcolm "Malc" McGookin is a British cartoonist, animator, and illustrator. He began cartooning as a teenager and later worked for Cosgrove Hall as a key animator and scriptwriter. In 1995, he moved to Australia, continuing his career in animation and editorial cartooning. Malc has contributed to publications like Private Eye and News of the World and currently works as an editorial cartoonist for the Sunday Mail in Brisbane.  Cagle Cartoons