Here are the ten most popular cartoons of the week (May 9 -May 16).

The big winner this week is Jeff Koterba of The Omaha World Herald, who has the most popular cartoon of the week and dominates with four cartoons in the top ten – an impressive performance that has never been matched. With the #2 cartoon, and two cartoons in the top ten, is Dave Granlund. Special congratulations to Bill Day who is making his first appearance in the Top Ten this week.

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#1

The most popular cartoon of the week is this one by Jeff Koterba, who has a whopping FOUR cartoons in the Top Ten this week.

#2

The second most popular cartoon of the week is by Dave Granlund.

#3

The third most popular is by RJ Matson.
#4

#4

Coming in at number four is another cartoon one from Jeff Koterba.

#5

At number five is Bob Englehart.

#6

The 6th most popular cartoon of the week is this one by Jeff Koterba, who has a whopping FOUR cartoons in the top ten this week.

#7

The seventh most popular cartoon is the unprecedented fourth cartoon from Jeff Koterba.

#8

The eighth most popular cartoon this week is the second cartoon in the Top Ten from Dave Granlund. This is also the only Top Ten cartoon that is not about the pandemic.

#9

This cartoon marks Bill Day‘s first appearance in the Top Ten.

#10

This cartoon is from Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News.

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Here are the 15 most popular and most reprinted CagleCartoons for the week of March 1st through 7th. We’ve started posting the cartoons that are most popular with editors in a special section on our newspaper subscribers download site. These are the cartoons that editors download the most, in high resolution, to be published in their newspapers. Since we started drawing more attention to the most popular cartoons, we’ve found that editors’ downloads on our site have doubled.

20% of our cartoons get 80% of the reprints. Editors tend to like the same cartoons –and these are the cartoon the editors liked most and published most this week. Enjoy!

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by Dave Granlund