Top Ten Cartoons of the Week – January 2, 2021

Here are our most reprinted cartoons of last week (December 26th through January 3nd 2021).

Eight of the cartoons are on a New Years theme. As usual, there are no cartoons about Trump or Biden. Editors were most interested in cartoons about how terrible 2020 was.

The Top Ten cartoons are what most readers see since only 20% of the cartoons get 80% of the reprints.

The top cartoons on the list performed especially well, and the top three each would have been a number one cartoon in a normal week. Congratulations to #1 Dave Whamond, #2 Dave Granlund and #3 Bruce Plante!

And kudos to the other cartoonists on the Top Ten this week: Jeff Koterba, Rick McKee, Pat Byrnes, John Darkow, Gary McCoy, Randall Enos and Peter Kuper!

Our Top Ten is a measure of how many editors choose to reprint each of our cartoons, from the 62 cartoonists in our CagleCartoons.com syndication package. Just about half of America’s daily, paid circulation newspapers (around 700 papers) subscribe to CagleCartoons.com.

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#1

Dave Whamond wins the week with a terrible 2020 New Years cartoon.

#2

Dave Granlund wins second place with a another terrible 2020 New Years cartoon.

#3

Bruce Plante takes third place with a COVID New Years cartoon.

#4

Jeff Koterba takes 4th place with another terrible 2020 New Years cartoon.

#5

Rick McKee claims 5th place.

#6

Pat Byrnes nabs 6th place with another terrible 2020 cartoon.

#7

John Darkow snags 7th place.

#8

Gary McCoy claims 8th place.

#9

Randall Enos takes 9th place.

#10

Peter Kuper rounds out the list with the only cartoon referencing the politics of the week.

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