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Switching to Facebook Comments

As many of you have noticed by now, we’ve made a decision at Cagle.com to switch to Facebook’s commenting system.

Over the years, we’ve entertained a spirited and lively debate about our columns and political cartoons, but the discussions that ensue can get nasty, mean and obscene real quick. We thought that by removing the veil of anonymity, it would force people to engage in discussions about our content and the news of the day in a more civil manner, leading to increasing engagement and a better overall community.

And you don’t have to be a member of Facebook – you can also comment using your Yahoo, AOL or Hotmail accounts.

If you have any problems with the system, send us an email and let us know. We want to know what you think of this, and all the changes we’ve made to Cagle.com!

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Best Cartoons of the Week

Class warfare was the name of the game this week. Critics used the phrase to criticize President Obama’s new jobs plan, due to its call to increase taxes on the wealthy. Maybe it’s the reason Mark Zuckerberg is punishing us with all these new Facebook changes.

To see what the news looks like through the eyes of our cartoonists, check out our big Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.

Bill Day / Cagle Cartoons (click to start slideshow)
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Facebook Changes Cartoons

Stupid Facebook! As most of us have just gotten use to all the previous changes, here they are again updating our “user experience” to entice us to put our entire life on their web servers!

(Did I mention we’re on Facebook, and how much we love it? Don’t forget to “Like” us.)

To find out what cartoonists think of Mark Zuckerburg’s recent updates, check out our Facebook Changes cartoon slideshow

Randy Bish / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (click to view slideshow)

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‘Like’ Cagle Cartoons on Facebook

Get the best cartoons and most thought-provoking columns from Cagle Cartoons and easily share your favorite cartoons with friends by clicking “Like” at the top of our Facebook page.

 

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Cell Phones Cause Cancer Cartoons

The World Health Organization research institute recently announced that using a cell phone over a prolonged period could lead to brain cancer. Too bad people were too busy texting their friends and playing Angry Birds on their smart-phones to see the report.

Are cartoonists the only ones that saw the news? Click here to view our Cell Phones Cause Cancer cartoon collection to see what they think, if you can pull yourself away from Facebook for that long.

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Mike Keefe / Denver Post (click to view collection
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Facebook and Radio Interview

Here is an interesting audio piece from Eric Klein on Pacifica Radio, interviewing me and altie cartoonist Lloyd Dangle about the status of editorial cartoons, where political cartooning is going in the future and those frustrating cartoon iPhone apps.

Businessweek magazine is doing a story on the Facebook privacy policy next week and asked us for cartoons on the topic – we didn’t have any, so Brian Fairrington and I both drew them up very quickly Monday night. That’s my cartoon at the right, and here is Brian’s Facebook privacy cartoon. It is interesting that we both drew cartoons with two square arrow boxes; great minds think alike, I guess.

I have no idea if Businessweek will end up using either Facebook cartoon.

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Facebook Privacy

Facebook Privacy Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Facebook,internet,web,computer,social networking,privacy

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Video: Cartoonists on using Twitter, Facebook

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Here’s part two of my lunch interview with Jeff Parker of Florida Today, Mike Peters of Mother Goose & Grimm and the Dayton Daily News, Monte Wolverton, brilliant weekly editorial cartoonist and Mad Magazine alumni and the Ottawa Citizen’s Cam Cardow. We’re all here in Seattle at the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention talking shop about the future of editorial cartooning.

In this video, we speak about social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter aiding us as cartoonists. You’ll even see a glimpse of me peek in and speak about the night Michael Jackson died, and how I was able to shoot ideas by my Twitter followers (follow me on Twitter here), ending up with a cartoon that resulted from their suggestions.

Here’s the cartoon I ended up with (and note the thank you I added for all my twitter followers):

Check back for more videos from the convention.