A.I. and the Pope: Top ten cartoons of the week It was a wild week filled with a lot of news, which included Pete Rose being posthumously unbanned from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Trump defended his decision to accept a $400 million luxury airplane from Qatar. But our two most-popular cartoons of the week were on wildly different subjects – A.I. and the new pope. Rick McKee drew our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, which featured a high school graduate’s dependence on ChatGPT, a popular A.I.-powered chatbot that can also create cartoons and steal jobs. Our second-most reprinted cartoon was Pat Byrnes’ funny cartoon on Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever American pope whose Chicago origins became the fodder for some funny pieces of art. Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week: #1. Rick McKee #2. Pat Byrnes #3. Daryl Cagle We have a great new Caglecast with 135 cartoons of Trump as an animal –with expert commentary from our top Trump-as-an-animal cartoonists, Adam Zyglis, Dave Whamond and Bill Day. Come watch!#4. Rick McKee #5. Dave Granlund #6. Monte Wolverton #7. R.J. Matson #8. Dave Whamond #9. Dave Granlund #10. John Darkow Mother’s Day: Top ten cartoons of the week Sunday is Mothers Day, in case you needed a reminder. So this week’s list of our most reprinted cartoons features a number of pieces celebrating the mothers of America. But our most popular cartoon of the week was a poke against relentlessly high grocery store prices, drawn by John Darkow. I’m not optimistic things will get much cheaper anytime soon, especially with Trump’s tariffs on deck. That’s good for cartoonists and bad for everyone else. Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week: #1. John Darkow #2. Dave Whamond #3. Dave Granlund #4. Dick Wright #5. Gary McCoy #6. Chris Weyant #7. Bruce Plante #8. John Darkow #9. Jonathan Brown #10. Pat Bagley | 
