The Most Popular Cartoons of the Month, May 2020

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 3, 2020

Here are the most popular cartoons of the month of May, 2020. Regular readers of my blog and newsletter will have seen all of these cartoons in our weekly roundups of the Top Ten Most Popular cartoons. Our Top Ten is a measure of how many of our subscribing newspaper editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 63 cartoonists in our syndication package. The list clearly shows that newspaper editors have been looking for cartoons about the lighter side of the pandemic.

I’d like to keep these lists to only ten cartoons, but this month we had a three way tie for the 10th place cartoon so there are 12 cartoons on the list. Out of the top 12, a whopping five cartoons are by Jeff Koterba of The Omaha World-Herald (Jeff sneaked two of those into the tie for 10th place). The #1 cartoon is by Steve Sack of The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. I had two cartoons on the list myself. Congratulations to the other cartoonists with the most reprinted cartoons this month, RJ Matson, Nate Beeler, Dave Granlund and Randy Enos.

20% of the cartoonists get 80% of the sales and reprints, and most of the cartoonists never make it into the Top Ten. If you don’t like the Top Ten, take it up with your local newspaper editor. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

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#1

The most reprinted cartoon of the month is from Steve Sack.

#2

The second most popular cartoon of the month is by Jeff Koterba.

#3

This third most popular cartoon is also by Jeff Koterba.

#4

RJ Matson takes 4th place with this gem.

#5

My cartoon is in 5th place. See the Daryl Cagle archive here.

#6

I’m also in 6th place. See my archive.

#7

Jeff Koterba is tied for 7th place with his third cartoon on the most reprinted list.

#7

Nate Beeler is also tied for 7th place.

#9

Dave Granlund is in 9th place.

#10

Here’s Randy Enos in a three way tie for 10th place.

#10

Jeff Koterba has two of the three cartoons tied for #10

#10

This is Jeff Koterba‘s second cartoon tied for #10. Jeff dominates with an impressive five cartoons on our most reprinted cartoons of the month list.

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School and COVID-19

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 26, 2020

Here’s my new “back to school” cartoon. This isn’t the “back to school” time of year, but there is a lot of news now about when and how schools will reopen with the coronavirus still raging.

Everyone tells me that I should post my messy rough sketches online. I’m told that this shows I’m a real person, and that readers love a “window into my process.” The temptation is to draw nicer looking roughs since I know people will see them, but that would take me down a slippery slope into cartoon madness.

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I took a stroll through our archives for some recent, favorite coronavirus/school cartoons. Here are the ones I like!

Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune

Jeff Koterba, The Omaha World-Herald

Dave Whamond, our Canadian cartoon genius.

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More College Scandal

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 15, 2019

Here’s another one on the college admissions scandal …

See more College Admissions Scandal cartoons here on my blog.

And here on Cagle.com where new ones are updating.

Tags ACT, cheat, College admissions scandal, college boards, kids, media, Operation Versity Blues, parents, SAT, Stanford, television, test, tv, USC, yale

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TRUE Stupid Stuff 2!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 19, 2018

Here’s another new batch of my old TRUE cartoons from the 1990’s – at least the ones that look like they could still be true. This is from a batch about government.

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TRUE Stupid Stuff!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 19, 2018

Here’s a new batch of my old TRUE cartoons. I’m disappointed that so many of these are are dated and don’t hold up over time. I think the stats have only gotten worse in the past 20 years. I’m this batch, there must be twice as many taxing agencies, and the national debt must equal four times the number of grains of surface sand on Jones beach, times $2. I’m putting these up on PoliticalCartoons.com and CagleCartoons.com and I see that newspapers are starting to run them. I hope those newspapers aren’t counting grains of sand.

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True Sex!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 11, 2018

Here’s another new batch of my old TRUE cartoons – this time about SEX!

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TRUE Life Stuff!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 9, 2018

This new batch of my old TRUE cartoons is about our crazy lifestyles here in America. Things in our lives haven’t changed much since I drew these – except for the televisions. And phones.

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TRUE Crazy Stuff 4!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 8, 2018

Here’s a new batch of my old TRUE cartoons. This first one is a self-portrait of younger me, sitting on the toilet, talking on my land-line rotary phone. Looking at the old True cartoons makes me feel young again, until I notice details that make me feel old.

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TRUE Crazy Stuff 3!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 5, 2018

Most of this new batch of my old TRUE panels came from my collection about entertainment and celebrities. I ended up killing most of these cartoons because they were so stale. I forget how different things were back in 1995. This edited batch of cartoons makes 1995 seem not so different from today – even though one cartoons shows a guy reading a book on the toilet; we may not read books anymore, but toilets haven’t changed much.

Star Trek is still familiar 23 years later. Mattel’s Barbie is still popular, but other toys in my TRUE cartoons are forgotten – for example Barney the Dinosaur was big in 1995. I forgot all about Barney. The first cartoon below is about Lassie, who we remembered as a doggie celebrity back in 1995. Do people remember Lassie now?

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TRUE Crazy Stuff 2!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date August 3, 2018

Here’s another batch of my TRUE syndicated newspaper cartoons from 1995. I’m culling out the cartoons that are not too stale to include in our PoliticalCartoons.com database and making little changes so that don’t seem too dated; sometimes that is hard and I have to delete some of my favorite oldies. I’m letting quite a few old style TVs and land line phones sneak through.

I suppose it is more interesting that so little has changed.