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Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.Theo Moudakis picks his favorite 2021 Toronto Star editorial cartoons.

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021. Michael de Adder picks his favorite 2021 political cartoons for The Toronto Star.

Lexington Herald-Leader Editorial Cartoonist Joel Pett looks back at 2021 in his annual year in review through the toons he drew. Dozens of infuriating Joel Pett political cartoons with some smooth piano background music to calm the nerves.

F-Minus (AMS) offers a cartoon that took me back to the days of the Soviet Union, when people stood in long lines for groceries and other basics. This same gag was told there as part of the grim humor Russians enjoy, as well as part of a reality in which people really did get into […]

Editorial Cartoonist Clyde Wells has passed away. Clyde Stokes Wells May 18, 1934 – December 27, 2021 The Augusta Chronicle notice:Clyde Wells – the longtime Augusta Chronicle editorial cartoonist who used his deft pen and keen wit to render unwavering opinions from caustic to caring – died Monday morning at his home in Martinez. He was 87. A self-described “attack cartoonist,” […]

As the calendar flipped from 2020 to 2021, the world was optimistic. That optimism lasted a solid six days. A couple dozen Phil Hands cartoons with a Phil Hands introduction.

USA Today cartoonist Mike Thompson’s 2021 in review. Gannett, by way of The State Journal-Register, presents over two dozen Mike Thompson editoons.

Our picks of editorial cartoons posted by national syndicates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch selects a mix of local and national cartoons.

The election of Joe Biden was supposed to usher in a return to normal, an end to the pandemic, a calming of the waters. Instead 2021 was a year of surprises — an attempted coup, a new spike in Covid, a deepening of the culture wars. Matt Wuerker did his best to keep up with […]

Nobody, I said, as I slid down the bannister, could call me a fussy man, but I’m not eating at a place — as demonstrated in today’s Zits (KFS) — where they go out of their way to prevent the dishwasher from cleaning the silverware.I assume putting the saucers together is to make unloading easier, […]

I was surprised at how many cartoons were about Christmas this morning. I’d expected some Boxing Day gags and Returning Things gags, but not so many actual Christmas gags.Maybe I compartmentalize too much, or maybe I’m dreading the dead space between now and New Years, when everyone takes off and there’s nothing to comment on.But […]

Ted Rall pulls no punches. He’s a patented political pugilist, landing haymaker after haymaker, week after week. Rall’s cartoons may not float like a butterfly, but they certainly sting like a bee. Here are some of our favorites from 2021. WhoWhatWhy presents a gallery of their favorite Ted Rall cartoons. cartoon © Ted Rall 

Since 1986, Bruce MacKinnon has been the editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has won multiple national and international awards, and his cartoons have been featured in publications and exhibits around the globe. Saltwire presents a Bruce MacKinnon gallery of 2021 cartoons.

For some reason, I didn’t see a lot of “bear trap in the fireplace” gags this year. Which is a good thing, I would add.However, Monty (AMS) put a spin on that tired old chestnut, and there’s nothing I love more than watching Sedgewick try to be a real boy, while his patient butler, Jarvis, […]

One of the most pro-Trump and militantly anti-vaccine cartoonists is disappointed with his leader over The Donald’s recent pro-vaccine messaging. Donald Trump has most famously admitted that he is vaccinated and got boosted in his Trump-O’Reilly Tour. Trump has also encouraged people to get vaccinated in a recent interview with Candace Owens.Far right cartoonist Ben […]