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Twitter Distraction

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 29, 2020

President Trump isn’t doing well in the polls. As the virus gets worse, Trump has silenced his coronavirus task force and has been looking for distractions to move the news away from harping on his virus failures as the death count passed 100,000.

Trump’s latest distraction has been Twitter, which finally bowed to criticism and put an innocuous link to more information, next to a tweet where Trump lied about voter fraud. This is raw meat for Trump’s base that doesn’t like those rich, liberal, San Francisco social media companies. Trump’s Executive Order against Twitter is inconsequential, but his deception lured the media and lots of the cartoonists into taking Trump’s bait, drawing non-coronavirus cartoons about Trump vs Twitter as the death toll passed a milestone. Here’s my cartoon.

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Here are a selection of five Trump vs Twitter cartoons drawn today and yesterday …

This cartoon is by Stephane Peray, who draws as “Stephff” in Thailand (internationally, cartoonists prefer to use only one name, like Cher, Madonna, Lassie or Flipper). Stephff is a long time contributor to our little syndicate; he used to have a thriving freelance business drawing cartoons for newspapers around the world. Now Stephff has given up editorial cartooning because all of his papers have dropped his cartoons as a cost cutting measure. I was actually surprised to see that Stephff uploaded this new one today, just for us. The newly accelerated decline of newspapers, and by extension, editorial cartoons, is a grim, worldwide phenomenon. Our reader supported site, Cagle.com, and our editorial cartoonists need your support to stave off the death of our art form.

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First to Sound the Alarm

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date April 13, 2020

President Trump claims that he wasn’t late in taking action about the pandemic, he argues that he was early, by declaring a travel ban on China on January 31st, to take effect on February 2nd. Trump’s claims are in dispute and there have been many reports of early warnings that the White House didn’t respond to, and recommendations of stronger measures that Trump should have ordered earlier.

Among those sounding an early alarm about the coronavirus threat are the world’s editorial cartoonists. Here is a batch of cartoons from our cartoon first-responders who were among the first to draw about the threat.

This quote is from our conservative cartoonist, Rick McKee,

My first coronavirus cartoon is dated January 31, and I remember thinking at the time, “I wonder if enough people know about this to get the reference?” I was following the story very closely while the virus was still limited to China and hearing stories about how they were quarantining residents by welding them in their homes, monitoring them with drones and building emergency hospitals in 10 days. I knew this was not a normal virus and if it came to the US, things would get bad very quickly. My son lives in Los Angeles and I remember the first documented case of the COVID-19 virus was in L.A. on January 23 at LAX. I texted him that day to alert him to start preparing for the possibility of a city-wide lockdown. Rick McKee

And here’s Rick’s cartoon …

Rick McKee, Georgia, 1/31/20

Bart van Leeuwen, The Netherlands, 1/22/20

Bart van Leeuwen, The Netherlands, 1/30/20

Dave Fitzsimmons, Arizona, 1/27/20

Dave Granlund, Minnesota, 1/21/20

Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukraine, 1/27/20

Michael Kountouris, Greece, 1/29/20

Stephane Peray, Thailand, 2/22/20

Tayo Fatunla, Nigeria, 1/24/20

Monte Wolverton, Washington, 1/27/20

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Don’t miss my other Coronavirus posts:
The Most Popular Cartoons of the Pandemic
The Most Popular Cartoons of the Week through May 2nd, 2020
Best of the Grim Reaper, Part 1
Best of the Grim Reaper, Part 2
Dr Fauci PART 2
Dr Fauci PART 1
Trump and Disinfectant PART 2
Trump and Disinfectant PART 1
Most popular Cartoons of the Week through 4/26/20, (all coronavirus)
Forgotten Biden – Part 2
Forgotten Biden – Part 1
Most popular Cartoons of the Week through 4/18/20, (all coronavirus)
Blame China! Part Two
Blame China! Part One
Most popular Cartoons of the Week, through 4/11/20 (all coronavirus)
My Favorite NEW Easter Cartoons
The Great Mort Drucker Passes Away
Planet COVID-19, Part 4
Planet COVID-19, Part 3
Planet COVID-19, Part 2
Planet COVID-19, Part 1
The Most Popular Cartoons of the Week, 4/4/20 (all coronavirus)
Toilet Paper Part Two
Toilet Paper Part One
Trump and the Easter Bunny
The Most Popular Cartoons of the Week, 3/29/20 (all coronavirus)
Tsunami Coming
Pandemics Compared
See, Hear Speak No Virus
The Best Coronavirus Sports Cartoons
New Coronavirus Favorites
The Most Popular Coronavirus Cartoons
My Corona Virus Cartoons
Corona Virus Quarantine Blues in China

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Planet COVID-19, Part 4

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date April 8, 2020

Our Planet COVID-19 posts end today – unfortunately, the coronavirus may go on for months. I think the cartoonists are doing their best work as they are stuck at home. Disasters bring out the best in cartoonists, and their work is more important now than ever. At the same time, the pandemic is taking a terrible toll on newspapers and we’re seeing a collapse of newspapers now that will bring on a collapse of our political cartooning profession. Please visit Cagle.com/heroes to see what you can do to help save the cartoons.

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Joe Heller, Wisconsin

Jeff Koterba, Nebraska

Osama Hajjaj, Jordan

Monte Wolverton, Washington

Joep Bertrams, Netherlands

Bill Day, Florida

Patrick Chappatte, Switzerland

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Planet COVID-19, Part 3

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date April 7, 2020

This week we’re passing a grim milestone, posting more than 1,000 coronavirus cartoons on Cagle.com! So many cartoonists (especially the international cartoonists) are drawing planetary metaphors that I decided to do four posts in a row about “Planet COVID-19”! Here’s part three! Click on each cartoonists’ name to view their archive on Cagle.com.

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Adam Zyglis, Buffalo, New York

Monte Wolverton, Washington

Chris Slane, New Zealand

Rainer Hachfeld, Germany

Osama Hajjaj, Jordan

Chris Weyant, Boston Globe

Petar Pismetrovic, Austria

Bas van der Schot, Netherlands

Kevin Siers, Charlotte, North Carolina

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Planet COVID-19, Part 2

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date April 6, 2020

Planet COVID-19 has invaded planet Earth! So many cartoonists (especially the international cartoonists) are drawing planetary metaphors that I decided to do four posts in a row about “Planet COVID-19”! Here’s part two! Click on each cartoonists’ name to view their archive on Cagle.com.

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Dario Castillejos, Oaxaca, Mexico

Michael Kountouris, Greece

Gatis Sluka, Latvia

Christo Komarnitsky, Bulgaria

Emad Hajjaj, Jordan

Angel Boligan, Mexico City, Mexico

Constantin Pavel, Romania

Hajo de Reijjer, France

John Darkow, Missouri

Bill Day, Florida

Tags coronavirus, COVID-19, disease, earth, eclipse, editorial cartoons, flu, globe, health, influenza, medical, medicine, Moon, novel, pandemic, planet, solar system, space

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Most Popular Cartoons of the Week!

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 21, 2020

Here are the 15 most popular and most reprinted CagleCartoons for the week of March 14th through 21st. 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. Enjoy!