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The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition

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Table of Contents
About this Book ..................iv
Cartoonist Job Loss List ..................v Gov. Sanford’s Affair.......102
About the Editor-Cartoonists..................vi Obama Picks Sotomayor.......108
We Want to Hear from You ............vii Senator Franken.......118
The Future of Syndication, By Daryl Cagle.......xiii Iran Protests.......122
About the Back Cover, by Taylor Jones.......xiv Bankrupt GM.......134
Classic Jackson Cartoons.......2 Madoff’s Mistakes.......142
Michael Jackson Memorials.......10 The Economy.......152
New President Obama.......20 Terror In India.......162
Obama’s First Year.......26 Perplexing Pirates.......166
AIG Outrage.......36 Specter Switches Sides.......170
No Jobs.......46 Violence in Mexico.......176
Bad Bad Blagojevich.......58 Swine Flu.......182
Lying Burris.......66 Gay Marriage.......190
Still More Edwards Affair.......70 Ringleader Rush.......196
Octomom.......72 Gates Arrest.......202
Phelps Likes Pot.......76 Moon Landing Anniversary.......208
Bumbling Biden.......80 The Pope and Condoms.......210
Crazy Cheney.......84 Remembering Corky.......214
Twitter.......92 In Memoriam.......216
Palin Quits.......98 Artists Index............222
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About this Book

This book is a history book. Editorial cartoons are a mirror on our society. Cartoonists don't just chronicle events;
we reflect the feelings of our readers as they react to events in the world around them. We think our annual Best
Political Cartoons of the Year book is the best history book of all. Cartoons might first seem to be shallow and
funny, but they are really a thoughtful survey of our culture, our emotions, our spirit, and our times.
The study of history involves lots of arbitrary dates, and the same is true of our book of cartoons from 2009, The
Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition, that includes a year of inflation in the title. Why? Because a compet-
ing book, The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition also includes a year of inflation in the title, and our
book would look old on the book store shelf next to the competing tome.
Last year we pushed our deadline into November so that our book could include Barack Obama winning the pres-
idency, but the later deadline came at a price as our book got into stores too late for Christmas. This year the
publisher has swung in the other direction, and our deadline was pushed up to July 31st, so that the books would
ship to stores in October, and be sure to be
stocked in stores for
Christmas. The title of our
book really should be: The
Best Political Cartoons of the Year, November, 2008 through July, 2009 Edition, but
no, we just added another three
months of book title inflation
to our 2010 Edition. We’ve
been working hard, on short notice, to
meet the earlier
deadline.
So, remember all that stuff that hap-

pened from August
through December of 2009? Hold that
thought – we’ll get
all of that into our 2011 Edition book
(that would be the
August 2009 through July 2010 book
to us). I suggest that everyone just
collect all of our books, and none of
this will matter. Really.
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nist Job Loss List

Cartoo
The decline of newspapers continued to take a toll on the profession as more cartoonists than ever
have lost their jobs recently. Newspapers who lost cartoonists haven't refilled the positions and car-
toonists seem to be at the top of the cost-cutting list as declines in readership and advertising rev-
enue continue to pummel the newspaper industry.
Newsrooms across the country have suffered massive cutbacks and it may be that editorial cartoon-
ists are losing their jobs in proportion with other journalists; but since the ranks of employed car-
toonists are so small (generally estimated at less than 100 jobs), the cuts seem more dramatic. The
decline in the editorial cartooning business happens at the same time that editorial cartoons are more
popular than ever. Cartoonists enjoy a huge audience on the Internet, and the audience for our
Cartoonist Index website (www.cagle.com) continues to grow.
My grim prediction for our cartooning profession is the same as for journalists in general: as we all
lose our jobs, we all become freelance bloggers, writing and drawing for a huge audience, on our
own, in the evening – after we get home from our real jobs. – Daryl Cagle
Here is a partial list of prominent cartoonists who lost full time jobs, quit, or retired recently:
Matt Davies, The Journal News, NY
Robert Ariail, The State, SC
John Branch, The San Antonio Express-News, TX Angel Boligan
Bill Day, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
El Universal, Mexico
Roy Peterson, The Vancouver Sun, BC, Canada
Thomas Boldt, The Calgary Sun, Alberta, Canada
Opposite page:
Robert Ariail, The State, South Carolina
Ed Stein, The Rocky Mountain News, CO Ares, Cagle Cartoons
Lee Judge, The Kansas City Star, MO
Gary Brookins, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA
Tom Meyer, The San Francisco Chronicle
Ben Sargent, The Austin American-Statesman, TX
Bill Garner, The Washington Times, DC
Brian Duffy, The Des Moines Register, IA
Jim Borgman, The Cincinatti Enquirer, OH
Eric Devericks, The Seattle Times.
Lee Judge, The Kansas City Star (now working part time)
Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post, FL
Steve Greenberg, The Ventura County Star, CA
Stuart Carlson, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel,WI
Jim Lange, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK
Chip Bok, The Akron Beacon-Journal, OH
Dwane Powell, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC (Now part time)
Paul Combs, left syndication after leaving The Tampa Tribune, FL
Peter Dunlap-Shohl, The Anchorage Daily News, AK
Sandy Huffaker, retired from syndication
M.e. Cohen, freelance, Retired from editorial cartooning
Jake Fuller, Gainesville Sun, FL
Dave Granlund, MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA
Mike Shelton, The Orange County Register, CA
Gordon Campbell, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ontario, CA
Richard Crowson, Wichita Eagle, KS
Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News, OH, Cut back on cartoons
Dick Adair, The Honolulu Advertiser, HI
Ann Telnaes, quit print syndication
David Catrow, Springfield News-Sun, OH
Corky Trinidad, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI
passed away, job left vacant
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t the Editor-Cartoonists
Abou
Daryl Cagle is the daily editorial cartoonist for MSNBC.com. Daryl's
editorial cartoon site with MSNBC.com (www.cagle.com) is the most popular
cartoon website of any kind on the Internet. It is also the most widely used
education site in social studies classrooms around the world.
For the past 30 years, Daryl has been one of America’s most prolific
cartoonists. Raised in California, Daryl went to college at UC Santa Barbara
and then moved to New York City, where he worked for 10 years with
Jim Henson’s Muppets, illustrating scores of books,
magazines, calendars, and all manner of products.
In 2001, Daryl started a new syndicate, Cagle Cartoons, Inc.

(www.caglecartoons.com), which distributes the cartoons of sixty
editorial cartoonists and columnists to more than 800 newspapers
in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Daryl is a past
president of the National Cartoonists Society and current presi-
dent of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation. He is a fre-
quent guest on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. Daryl is a popular
and entertaining public speaker. Interested in having Daryl speak
to your group? Contact us through www.caglecartoons.com for
more information.
Brian Fairrington, a graduate of Arizona State University, earned a

bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in com-
munications.
Brian is one of the most accomplished young cartoonists in the coun-

try. Brian was the recipient of the Locher Award, the Charles M.
Schulz Award, and several Society of Professional Journalists awards
and Gold Circle Awards. He is a regular on the Phoenix-based televi-
sion talk show Horizon, for which one of his appearances garnered
an Emmy award. Brian has also been a guest on Imus in the Morning
and was recently featured on CBS News Sunday Morning.
Brian's cartoons are nationally syndicated to more than 800 newspa-

pers and publications in America with Caglecartoons.com. His car-
toons have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and Time,
as well as on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Additionally, his car-
toons regularly appear on www.cagle.msnbc.com.
Brian is a native of Arizona and is married to the wonderful Stacey

Heywood; they have four children.
Cagle by Milt Priggee; Fairrington by Brian Fairrington

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Hear From You

We Want to
As the reader of this book, you are our most important critic and commentator. We value your opinion and want to
know what we’re doing right, what we could do better, what areas you’d like to see us publish in, and any other words
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ANGEL BOLIGAN, El Universal, Mexico

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Syndication
The Future of
What will happen with syndicated editorial cartoons as newspapers seem to be fading away and the
internet looms?
The best-known editorial cartoonists have always been the cartoonists with the biggest list of syndi-
cated client newspapers. Fifty years ago, when there were two or three times as many political car-
toonists and the newspaper industry was thriving, newspapers would purchase individual subscrip-
tions to star cartoonists from syndicates that were like cartoon boutiques with exclusive content. The
cartoonist would mail his cartoon to his syndicate, who would print the cartoon on paper and re-mail
it to all of the subscribing newspaper editors, in big envelopes stuffed with the other boutique, exclu-
sive features that each editor subscribed to and slowly received, days after the news was fresh.
It would have been difficult for a cartoonist to self syndicate in those days because delivery and
billing was a big job; there were efficiencies of scale for the syndicates, who had ambitious printing,
mass postal mailing operations and sales forces that were constantly visiting editors.
MIKE LANE
Cagle Cartoons
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MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post
In recent decades the individual sales have given way to “packages” of groups of cartoonists. It is
cheaper and easier for an editor to subscribe to a group of cartoonists, with one monthly invoice
for the whole group, than to keep track of individual subscriptions. By the 1980’s and 1990’s, com-
petition between the packages had driven the prices for editorial cartoons down to alarmingly low
levels, leading cartoonists to complain about the collapse of their profession.
In fact, it was almost impossible for a cartoonist to sell his own work to newspapers. If an editor
could subscribe to the Copley News Service package of twelve great cartoonists for $24 per week,
there was no sense in talking to an individual cartoonist about subscribing to only his work for $2
per week. The price for editorial cartoons had fallen so low that it would be embarrassing for an
editor to even discuss price with a single cartoonist.
I started my little syndicate in 2000, at what seemed to be a terrible time, with ugly low prices
and disinterested, unmotivated editors in an oversaturated market. But I had an edge; the other
big syndicates were slow in transitioning from postal mail delivery to email delivery, and had no
download websites for their newspaper editors. I was the first to put up a nice download site,
where the cartoonists uploaded their own cartoons, and the cartoons appeared immediately
when they were drawn. We also delivered the cartoons by email, and I assembled a group of
great cartoonists to compete as a package, against the other packages. It worked and we built an
impressive list of over 600 newspaper subscribers in the first three years. (Today we have about
900 subscribers.)
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Now that newspapers are failing, circulation is dropping, editors are cutting expenses anywhere they
can, and prices for editorial cartoons couldn’t fall any lower, the future looks even bleaker for political
cartoonists. A few years ago it looked like the Internet would be our salvation. There are some web-
sites that are good customers, but sales to the Web have turned out to be a disappointment. There is
no culture of paying for content on the Web. Advertising with content on the Internet pays a pittance.
The Web is a dud.
Many cartoonists thought that animated editorial cartoons would be our future. The Pulitzer commit-
tee certainly thought so, picking three animated editorial cartoonists as winner and runners up recent-
ly when animated editorial cartoons were on people’s minds. Some cartoonists do excellent work ani-
mating their cartoons, but with a handful of exceptions, there is no business plan in it. No matter how
good the animated editorial cartoons are, they won’t work without clients who will pay for them.
Some cartoonists stubbornly cling to the idea that animation will be our salvation. I wish them luck.
We’re now seeing more cartoonists who are willing to work for free for websites, with the idea that
this will somehow lead to a paying job. As editorial cartoonists are laid off from staff positions at
declining newspapers, they continue to draw cartoons in syndication as they did when they had real
jobs. Our profession seems to be transitioning into a hobby.
PAT BAGLEY, Salt Lake Tribune

THE FUTURE OF SYNDICATION

DAVE GRANLUND
Politicalcartoons.com
Ironically, political cartoons are now more popular than ever. We have a big audience for our web-
sites. Cartoons still dominate newspaper editorial pages. Our annual Best Political Cartoons of the
Year books are popular. High school and middle school kids have mandated state testing on politi-
cal cartoons in every state and teachers teach to the tests, forcing millions of students to love our
art form every night as they grind through their homework assignments.
The quality of work that editorial cartoonists are doing now has never been better. The product is
great, the audience is there for the product, and the problem is the business plan.
We see two big trends in our little business. First is the decline in newspaper clients – what used to
be the whole reason for drawing editorial cartoons.
Second, we’re seeing growth in strange, oddball subscribers. Our new subscribers and pay per use
customers come from all over the globe, like Southeast Asia, Arab countries, Eastern European
countries, places we would never expect. And they are all different kinds of companies, including
foreign newspapers, magazines, newsletters, book publishers, TV stations, and oddball websites.
These are customers who find us because we’re easy to find on the Web (search Google for “politi-
cal cartoon” or “editorial cartoon” and we come up first). Most of our new customers are overseas,
their numbers are growing and there are enough of them to make up for our losses in newspapers,
keeping our little business stable and making us optimistic about continued growth.
The new, oddball customers have something in common, they don’t comparison shop, they come
to us and subscribe or purchase pay per use. They don’t know anything about other online cartoon
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sources like stock illustration houses, or other syndicates and they don’t care; we have enough con-
tent that they can find something they like.
In the old days syndicates knew just who to sell to—they all sold to the same list of newspaper edi-
tors, in a limited market, so it made sense that each syndicate had exclusive arrangements with their
cartoonists, to differentiate their content from their competitors. Now there doesn’t seem to be so
much value in exclusivity. A number of our cartoonists are non-exclusive and some are sold in other
online stores or are represented by other syndicates—we’ve never heard from new clients who have
noticed that.
It would seem that the new paradigm is to think of a syndicate like a store. A store in a good location
has lots of customers who find the store. A store in a poor location draws few customers. Stores in dif-
ferent locations draw different customers. Cartoonists are like producers who create products to put in
the stores. Cartoonists should want their cartoons to be sold in as many different stores as possible,
because those stores now have different customers.
Exclusive syndication deals now have less value to the syndicates and tie the hands of the cartoon-
ists. The new paradigm for editorial cartoonists is to be resold in as many ways, in as many places
as possible.
I think this is a future that many cartoonists will find difficult to accept. Cartoonists have always been
drawn to the idea that a syndicate is a benevolent Mommy, who will take care of all the nasty business
stuff while they can concentrate on their creative work; this is a model that hasn’t worked for most car-
toonists and is even worse now, but cartoonists keep coming back to it and keep signing long term,
exclusive contracts with old world syndicates.
DARYL CAGLE, MSNBC.com
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From the syndicate’s or THE FUTURE OF SYNDICATION

“store’s” point of view, it
means we need to find a
way of presenting our
product to more, non-
overlapping groups of
customers on the Web.
We’ve looked at sublicens- TERRY
ing our content to be sold MOSHER
by another store, like Montreal
Gazette
Cartoonbank, but I think
there is a basic problem
with that. Once we hit the
point of having enough
content so that a customer
can easily find a cartoon
he likes, there is diminish-
ing value to adding more
content, or cartoonists.
Putting more content into
a store that already has
plenty of content doesn’t
make for more sales over-
all in that store. We need
more stores, in different
wrappers, in different
places, reaching more
potential customers in dif-
ferent ways. That’s our
plan now.
I would expect to see more cartoonists getting together to start their own online stores and syndicates
as I did—as Malcolm Mayes did with Artizans, and as Sarah Thaves did with Cartoonistsgroup. The
barriers to entry are low in the Internet age. It won’t work for self-syndicating cartoonists to call the
same 1,500 daily newspapers who are sick of getting so many sales calls, but I expect that more car-
toonists will lay claim to bits of the vast, odd and foreign client potential on the Web.
My advice for 21st century editorial cartoonists is: draw a consistent, steady flow of great cartoons
that are not about local events, with a global audience in mind. Sign non-exclusive deals with as
many syndicates, online stores and stock houses that you can find, around the world, and allow those
“stores” to sublicense your work through other “stores.” Have your own website where your work is
easily available to any customer who is interested just in you, and publicize your site as best you can.
Manage your work as a database of all your work. Your product is all your work from past years, not
just what you’re drawing today; and when you join a new online store or syndicate, bring all your
past cartoons with you so that your archive is easily accessible and can continue to generate sales of
second rights. Don’t accept long term contracts with syndicates, agents, or online stores; always be
free to move. And don’t rely on anyone to take care of your career, but yourself.
- Daryl Cagle
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About the Back Cover

In December of 2008, Tribune Media Services, my syndicate at the time, commissioned me to draw an
illustration featuring Barack Obama and several of our other presidents for a special Inaugural Edition
to be published by The
Chicago Tribune.
If only it were so simple!
The illustration posted at right

is the original I did for the
Tribune. The managing editor
and I had agreed on the con-
cept and the rough draft had
been approved. When I sent
the finished art, it, too, was
approved.
And so the story might have

ended. But, a couple of days
later, the editor called me to
say there was a problem.
Tribune Media's president did
not like the fact that there was
a pair of shoes speeding in the
direction of outgoing president
George W. Bush's head. This
little joke, in what was other-
wise a rather sober illustration,
was paying homage to the
famous “shoes-heard-'round-
the-world” last autumn, when
an Iraqi journalist hurled his
shoes at President Bush during
a news conference in Baghdad.
(As an aside, I have to admit

that I was much impressed with President Bush's nimbleness in ducking the leather projectiles. At age
62, the president didn't miss a beat, and took it all in good humor.)
Tribune Media's president told the managing editor the shoes had to go! The president's concern was
that the dig at Bush might scare off advertisers from peddling their wares, for hefty fees, in the Obama
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Inaugural Edition. This was especially important, given that The Chicago Tribune is Obama's “home-
town” newspaper—not to mention that the Tribune had recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
I balked at having to make the change, though complaining is something I rarely do when working on free-
lance jobs. I thought his concern about the flying shoes was silly, but I knew I'd have to give in. I suggested
to the managing editor that I could substitute another president for the shoes, but wasn't sure which one to
choose. Given George W. Bush's placement in the foreground of the illustration, I knew I'd have to choose
a short president, and preferably hefty one, to fill the gap. That ruled out the massive William Howard Taft,
of course, and the petite 100-
pound James Madison. Many
other presidents, regardless of
size, just weren't “household
faces,” and might have puzzled
readers.
John Adams, therefore, was the

obvious choice. Because I draw
at a drafting table, rather than
on a computer tablet, I was
going to have to trace part of
the original art and carefully
construct a patch with both
John Adams and a re-drawn
George W. Bush. Once com-
pleted, I chose to "paste" the
patch onto the JPEG image of
the original art so as to pre-
serve the original piece with the
hurtling shoes. Once the patch
was inserted, I sent the revised
file to Tribune Media Services,
and everyone there breathed a
sigh of relief.
That is, until the paper was on

its way to the printer. The spe-
cial Obama Inaugural Edition,
full of large editorial cartoons
by some of Tribune Media's
best cartoonists, contained no
advertising whatsoever! Even without the offensive flying shoes, Tribune Media was unable to enlist a
single advertiser for the suppliment. The shoe crisis was really much ado about nothing. And it served
as yet another example, however small, of the sorry shape of today's newspaper industry.
– Taylor Jones
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on Cartoons
Classic Jacks
When the news of Michael Jackson's death spread across the globe, no group of people felt
more grief than editorial cartoonists. They followed his career closely through all the crotch
tugs, plastic surgeries, and allegations of child abuse. Cartoonists were at the groom's side
when he married Elvis Presley's daughter, and were looking up as he dangled his son
Prince over a 4-story balcony. Here's a look back as cartoonists remember their favorite
Michael Jackson cartoons.
BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courant
In 1984, the media was

making a big deal out of
President Reagan meeting
Michael Jackson. I wanted
to do something ironic, with
Reagan being the friend of
the white male millionaire. I
came up with this cartoon
that hit the spot.
– Bob Englehart
This cartoon was never pub-

lished but it's a big hit when I
show it at my speeches. When
the Catholic church was look-
ing for a pope after John Paul
XI died, people suggested a
black pope and an American
pope. Given the church's
recent conduct, I combined the
two into one candidate. My
boss spiked it saying, "You're
going to get us both fired!"
– Bob Englehart

I drew my favorite Michael Jackson cartoon after he was arrested. I had a police line-up
with a little boy/victim pointing at Jackson saying, “That one;” the others in the line-up are
a candy cane, a barber pole and the North Pole. Of course, the “secret” characteristic the kid
identified was that Jackson's penis was (allegedly) striped like a barber pole. I thought
everyone knew this when I drew the cartoon, but unfortunately it turned out this was a little
known bit of color about the King of Pop.
Soon after I drew my Jackson line-up cartoon, I received an email from a couple of middle
school kids that went something like this:
“Dear Mr. Cagle, Every week in our Social Studies class, our teacher, Ms. Fuddle, has what
we call, “Cartoon Monday.” The class votes on an editorial cartoon that we will discuss that
day. We voted to discuss your Michael Jackson cartoon in class next Monday, but we don't
understand it. Would you please explain it to us? Sincerely, Kid One and Kid Two.”
I wrote back, “Dear Kid One and Kid Two, Thank you for choosing my cartoon to discuss.
The cartoon refers to Michael Jackson's penis, which is striped like a barber pole …”
And the kids wrote back, “Dear Mr. Cagle. Thank you for the explanation of your Michael
Jackson cartoon. We think this will be our most interesting Cartoon Monday ever.”
When I think of all that cartoonists have lost with Michael Jackson's passing, it makes me weep.
– Daryl Cagle
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TAYLOR JONES, Politicalcartoons.com
I have to hand it to Michael Jackson. He

was a weird pleasure to caricature! The
skin whitening procedures to obscure
his vitiligo, the odd experiments in plas-
tic surgery, the bandito face kerchiefs,
the sequined glove and epaulets—all
made Michael Jackson an enduring
subject for caricature. In terms of ren-
dering, Jackson made the caricaturist's
job easy. Over time, he reduced himself
to a stark black-and-white image. The
white, mime-like face, the sharp cut of
his reconstructed nose, the dyed black
hair hanging like tendrils, the eyeliner
and false eyelashes…all of these provid-
ed great tools for the caricaturist.
However, my favorite Jackson cartoon

isn't a cartoon at all, it's artist Jeff Koon's
porcelain figure of Michael and Bubbles the
chimp. It's truly icky and treacly—and an
absolutely perfect addition to one's collection
of hummels and porcelain clowns and
gnomes!
– Taylor Jones
CAMERON CARDOW, Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
As I recall the story, it was alleged

that Michael Jackson sexually abused
a child and was being taken to court.
Apparently, it was a common thing
in those days for Jackson to babysit
kids, which begs the question, 'what
were these parents thinking?' So my
concept was having Jackson appear
at the front door with his animal
friends and the dad nonchalantly
announcing his arrival—as if any of
this was normal.
– Cameron “Cam” Cardow

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CLASSIC JACKSON CARTOONS

STEVE GREENBERG
Pop superstar (and plas-

tic-surgery freak) Michael
Jackson survived another
lurid set of charges about
child molestation—years
earlier he supposedly
paid off a young boy to
maintain his silence—as a
jury rendered not-guilty
verdicts. But why did so
many parents allow their
young sons to sleep in a
bed with ANY adult male
stranger in the first place?
– Steve Greenberg
DWAYNE BOOTH
It is important not to mourn the

discontinuation of the Michael
Jackson brand as if it were
made of flesh and bone. In
fact, if Jackson never suc-
cumbed to the claims made by
those who sustained and pro-
moted his celebrity, he might've
been better equipped to recog-
nize both his limitations and
the simple beauty of his own
humanness. He might've
learned to love himself had he
not been taught to blow every
last one of his kisses off the
upturned fingertips of his
sequined glove in the direction
of those willing to do him the
cruel favor of accepting them.
– Dwayne Booth
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JOHN COLE, The Times-Tribune (PA)
I drew this cartoon around the

time the Brit documentary first
aired. It pretty much speaks for
itself and was well-received by
readers. I think the portion of the
population that adores Michael
Jackson and broaches no criticism
of him (it?) is small but devoted.
The vast majority of folks, whether
or not they enjoy his music, recog-
nize the guy had some serious
issues regarding young boys and
the surgeon's knife.
– John Cole
BRIAN FAIRRINGTON, Cagle Cartoons
This particular Michael Jackson car-

toon is one of my favorites for two
reasons; even though it's a bit text
heavy I still get a chuckle when I
read the last sentence. It really sums
up how a lot of people feel about
Jacko and his legacy.
Secondly, this cartoon got a lot of

hate mail, which cartoonists live for.
The logic people use to defend the
indefensible always amazes me.
Many said I was being a racist for
my criticisms towards Michael
Jackson. The race card has become
too easy to play, never mind the fact
that the cartoon has nothing to do
with race whatsoever. I simply stat-
ed in my replies that I was not targeting a black man, but a middle aged white woman.
I'll miss the circus freak and all that he provided me and the rest of the world in terms of side
show entertainment. Oh well, I guess Hitler and Ted Bundy get to watch him moon walk
now.
– Brian Fairrington
6

CLASSIC MICHAEL JACKSON CARTOONS

PETAR PISMESTROVIC
With this cartoon for the Austrian daily

newspaper "Kleine Zeitung,” I drew a
parallel between Michael Jackson and
Peter Pan. Jackson never had a real
childhood and just as Peter Pan, he
didn't want to grow up. Everyone has
their own opinion about Jackson, espe-
cially now, following what happened to
him.
During the working phase of this car-

toon, I tried to get connected to every-
thing my subject has gone through. By
dramatically changing his look, Jackson
has only added to becoming a target of
cartoonists worldwide. Jackson might
have been famous throughout the
world, but he was also a sad man who
stayed a naïve little kid despite his
work enthusiasm and huge talent.
– Petar Pismestrovic
MIKE KEEFE Denter Post

This cartoon was prompted by Michael
Jackson's denial that his sleep-overs with
underaged children (who reportedly
shared his bed) was not out of the
ordinary. I focused on Jackson's
nose for obvious reasons. What
would it have looked like if it
had not been altered? My guess
is it would've resembled a cer-
tain prevaricating puppet's.
According to a poll on my website,
73% of readers liked it, 26% did not.
I'm guessing the other 1% was my
editor.
– Mike Keefe
7

JOE HELLER
Green Bay Gazette
Watching the trial on

TV, Michael Jackson
always arrived to
court with a body
guard holding an
umbrella over him.
At the end of the
trial, he was found
innocent, but that
didn't offer much
protection to the
damage done to
his image and
career.
– Joe Heller
MONTE WOLVERTON
In late 2007 the results of a

study hit the news, indicating
that over 60 percent of lip-
sticks contain lead. While
Michael's legal troubles had
waned by 2007, he was in the
news that year because of his
deal with Sony and Viacom,
and he was still fair game to
take a shot at. So I decided to
do one of those extremely
clever things where you com-
bine two news items into one
cartoon. I actually don't recall
any response to this whatsoever – probably because public opinion was not particular-
ly pro-Jacko, in spite of his acquittal.
– Monte Wolverton
8

CLASSIC JACKSON CARTOONS

ADAM ZYGLIS, Buffalo News
I actually drew this MJ cartoon

before I landed my job at The
Buffalo News. At the time I
was just getting printed in
Artvoice, the alternative week-
ly in Buffalo. It was the spring
2004, and the Michael Jackson
molestation trial was under
way. I remember watching
images of Jackson showing up
late to court, with a large
entourage, hiding under an
umbrella, wearing gloves and
his signature outfits. Then he
would dazzle the crowds by
dancing on an SUV.
Another news story at the time was the Mars Rover landing on the red planet for the first
time, exploring for signs of life.
The feedback I received was largely positive, mainly because it was an alt weekly. But if I
were in The Buffalo News at the time, I'm sure I would have gotten slammed for the strange
nipples and asexual martian bodies in the cartoon.
– Adam Zyglis
PATRICK CHAPPATTE
International Herald Tribune
I knew I was crossing a

line with this. Surprising
that the newspaper accept-
ed it in the first place.
I just found a way to

express the idea that
Michael Jackson was
bizarre, like coming from
another planet. It did get
quite a few angry and
shocked messages., and a
single appreciative one.
– Patrick Chappatte
9

el Jackson Memorials
Micha
It was unexpected and like most of Michael
Jackson’s life events—bizarre. The King of
Pop was pronounced dead at UCLA Medical
Center on Thursday, June 25th, 2009. By the
time paramedics arrived at his home he
had no pulse and they were not able to
revive him. While many rumors sur-
faced regarding his death, the larger
focus was on his estate. Jackson left
his assets to his three children in
the form of trusts, and custody of
his children was given to his moth-
er. The legal battle over his
Neverland Ranch estate and stake
in the Sony music catalog, which
included works from artists like
the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Neil
Diamond, was doomed to last
for years.
And we were all doomed

to watch never-ending
television coverage for
weeks after Jackson’s
death.
TAYLOR JONES
10

NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
11

R.J. MATSON, Cagle Cartoons
PATRICK CHAPPATTE, International Herald Tribune

STEPHANE PERAY, Thailand
12

MICHAEL JACKSON MEMORIALS
BRIAN FAIRRINGTON, Cagle Cartoons DARIO CASTILLEJOS, Mexico
PETER BROELMAN, Australia
13

JIM DAY, Las Vegas Review-Journal
JIMMY MARGULIES, The Record (NJ) BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courant

14


DAVID FITZSIMMONS, Arizona Daily Star
STEVE GREENBERG, Politicalcartoons.com
MANNY FRANCISCO, Manila, Phillipines
15

JIHO
France
DENG COY MIEL, Singapore

FREDERICK DELIGNE, France
16

JOHN COLE, Scranton Times-Tribune
TERRY "AISLIN" MOSHER, Montreal Gazette PETER BROELMAN, Australia
17

DWAYNE BOOTH
Mr. Fish
CAM CARDOW
Ottawa Citizen
18

CAM CARDOW, Ottawa Citizen MICHAEL JACKSON MEMORIALS
GARY McCOY
Cagle Cartoons
CAM CARDOW, Ottawa Citizen
19

ent Obama
New Presid
On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th
President of the United States, becoming the country's first black
President. With an unpopular war and a faltering economy, the
country wanted a change and it got one. President Obama was
entering office with seemingly impossible obstacles to surmount.
But no matter what he did in the future, just by taking office,
President Obama made history.
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
20

JEFF PARKER, Florida Today
ADAM ZYGLIS, Buffalo News J.D. CROWE, Mobile Register
21

DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
JOHN DARKOW, Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
DARIO CASTILLEJOS, Mexico
ROB TORNOE, Politicalcartoons.com

22

NEW PRESIDENT OBAMA
Nik Scott, Australia
GARY McCOY, Cagle Cartoons THEO MOUDAKIS, Toronto Star

23

PETAR PISMESTROVIC, Austria
VINCE O’FARRELL, Illawarra Mercury, Australia
R.J. MATSON, St. Louis Post Dispatch

24

NEW PRESIDENT OBAMA
R.J. MATSON, Roll Call
YAAKOV KIRSCHEN, Jerusalem Post, Israel

25

Obama's First Year

President Obama hit the ground running when he entered office in 2009. He
had to deal with the struggling economy and develop a stimulus package that
both parties would find acceptable. The bailout crisis put added
pressure on him and his cabinet, which was also creating its own challenges.
But despite low approval ratings of his plans and policies, the President's
overall rating was still
positive. Perhaps it had
something to do with
more news focus-
ing on his fami-
ly's decision
about their
dog.
26

NATE BEELER, Washington Examiner
JOHN TREVER, Albuquerque Journal

27

ADAM ZYGLIS, Buffalo News ERIC ALLIE, Politicalcartoons.com

28

OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR
JIM DAY, Las Vegas Review Journal R.J. MATSON, St. Louis Post Dispatch
HAJO, Netherlands J.D. CROWE, Mobile Register

29

TAYLOR JONES
JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette JIMMY MARGULIES, The Record (NJ)
DARYL CAGLE, MSNBC.COM
30

OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR
THEO MOUDAKIS, Toronto Star JEFF PARKER, Florida Today
31

OLLE JOHANSSON, Sweden

32

OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR
JIMMY MARGULIES, The Record (NJ)
R.J. MATSON, Roll Call DENG COY MIEL, Politicalcartoons.com
33

TAYLOR JONES
El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
34

OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR
MIKE LANE, Cagle Cartoons
DWAYNE BOOTH, Mr. Fish

CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI, Bulgaria
ROB TORNOE
35

AIG Outrage
Ridiculous! Indefensible!
Horrible! After a painful deci-
sion to provide bailout money
to insurance giant AIG,
Congress was humiliated by
AIG’s decision to pay hundreds
of millions of dollars in bonuses
to executives. Taxpayers were
furious that the money, intend-
ed to save AIG and help the
economy, went into employee’s
private pockets. The bonuses
were seen as rewarding incom-
petence. It s easy to see why
cartoonists see AIG as pigs,
crocodiles, pirates, monsters ...
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
36

JOHN COLE
Scranton Times-Tribune

37

PAT BAGLEY, Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
JIM DAY, Las Vegas Review Journal
THEO MOUDAKIS, Toronto Star
GARY MCCOY, Cagle Cartoons
38

AIG OUTRAGE
ERIC ALLIE
39

PATRICK CORRIGAN, Toronto Star
JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette
40

AIG OUTRAGE
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
NATE
BEELER
Washington
Examiner
41

LARRY WRIGHT, Detroit News

42

AIG OUTRAGE
DAVID
FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
R.J. MATSON
St. Louis Post
Dispatch
43

CAM CARDOW
Ottawa Citizen
MONTE WOLVERTON
Cagle Cartoons
44

AIG OUTRAGE
JIANPING FAN, China
JOHN TREVER, Albuquerque Journal YAAKOV KIRSCHEN, Jerusalem Post, Israel
45

No Jobs
With 2.6 million Americans out of work, 2008 was the worst year for job losses since 1945.
Economists worried that the trend would only get worse in 2009, while President Obama
and his administration asked American’s to trust that the recession was temporary. The
situation looked dismal for those just entering the job market, and those recently removed
from it. Patience was hard to come by when the government’s stimulus plan seemed to
sputter, and jobs continued to disappear.

46

DWAYNE BOOTH, Mr. Fish PAUL ZANETTI, Australia

47


RANDY BISH
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette

48

NO JOBS
49

50

NO JOBS
DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
51

DAVE GRANLUND, Politicalcartoons.com
BOB ENGLEHART
Hartford Courant
52

NO JOBS
53

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
54

NO JOBS
55

JEFF PARKER
Florida Today
VINCE O’FARRELL
Illawarra Mercury, Australia
56

NO JOBS
DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
57

Bad Bad Blagojevich

Chicago may be accustomed to
ugly political scandals, but
Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich had the
country on its heels.
Blagojevich was the first
Democrat to serve as the
Governor of Illinois in 30
years. His stump speech?
End corruption! Blago
allegedly tried to sell
President Obama's vacant
Senate seat, outraging the
nation. Perhaps the oddest
part of the Blagojevich
scandal – his refusal to to
resign in the face of an
indictment and incriminat-
ing FBI audio tapes of his
phone calls.
Blago was impeached and

thrown out of office, after
appointing sentaor
Roland Burris to that
disputed Senate seat.
Then he tried to go
on a reality TV
game show.
Even with all that,

what cartoonists liked
most about Blago
was his hair.
TAYLOR JONES
58

BAD BAD BLAGOJEVICH
CAM CARDOW, Ottawa Citizen

59

60

BAD BAD
BLAGOJEVICH
R.J. Matson
St Louis Post Dispatch
RANDY BISH
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
61


62

BAD BAD BLAGOJEVICH
JOHN DARKOW
Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
63

MIKE KEEFE
Denver Post
JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette JOHN DARKOW, Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
JOHN COLE, Scranton Times-Tribune BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courantt

64

BAD BAD BLAGOJEVICH
NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
R.J. MATSON, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
65

Lying Burris
U.S. Senator Roland Burris should not have
expected a welcoming party in Washington,
after receiving his appointment from
scandal plagued Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich.
In Senate testimony, Burris

insisted that he hadn’t offered
to buy the seat, but more
and more questions were
raised as Burris offered sev-
eral different explanations
for FBI recordings of him
allegedly offering
Blagojevich some kind
of compensation for the
appointment.
With little public

support, Burris
announced that he
would not seek
election to the
Senate when his
term expired.
TAYLOR JONES
Cagle Cartoons
66

BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courantt
R.J. MATSON, St. Louis Post Dispatch JOHN COLE, Scranton Times-Tribune
67

R.J. MATSON
St. Louis Post Dispatch
LARRY WRIGHT
Detroit News
68

LYING BURRIS
R.J. MATSON
MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post GARY MCCOY, Cagle Cartoons
69

More Edwards Affair

Still
Former Senator John Edwards moved from presidential hopeful to pres-
idential hopeless in 2008 when news of his affair with campaign
employee Rielle Hunter surfaced after the election. His affair was
dragged through the media in 2009 as his wife, Elizabeth, recounted the
infidelity on countless television talk shows as part of a book tour, plug-
ging her hubby bashing book. Women winced every time they heard
about John’s cheating from his wife who was battling cancer.
70

TAYLOR JONES
Cagle Cartoons
JIMMY
MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
ERIC ALLIE
Cagle Cartoons JD CROWE
Mobile Register (AL)
71

m
Octomo An Angelina look-alike, single mother of six gave birth

to octuplets. If that’s not newsworthy, what is? The
story hit the media and multiplied. Late night comics
and cartoonists combined the crazy Octomom with
the poor economy and Obama’s crazy spending,
giving birth to endless gags. From ethical and
legal allegations against Nadya Suleman’s
doctor, to lucrative offers for X-rated
films —the situation became increas-
ingly bizarre. As if raising one child
in the present economy wouldn’t
be hard, OctoMom now had
fourteen mouths to feed,
insure, and educate. She
was reported to be negoti-
ating for a reality TV
show deal as authorities
investigated the doctor
who gave her fertility
drugs.
PAT BAGLEY
Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
72

JOE HELLER
Green Bay
Press
Gazette
MICHAEL McPARLANE, Politicalcartoons.com
JOHN TREVER
Albuquerque
Journal
NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
73

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press-Gazette

74

OCTOMOM
75

Phelps Likes Pot

With the ever increasing technological capabilities of mobile phones, and the public’s
fascination with celebrity culture, it is no surprise that a camera phone captured an icon
“making a bad judgment.” However, no one expected the subject to be Olympic record
holder Michael Phelps. The picture spreading fast, America’s golden boy was forced to
admit his mistake and face the public’s backlash. Whether fans brushed off the incident
as a youthful indiscretion or not, cartoonists didn’t hesitate to depict the swimmer’s
tarnished image. Even if Phelps’ slip-up is not yet forgiven, his hopeful splash in the
2012 games will likely clear the smoke from the water.
FREDERICK DELIGNE
Nice-Matin, France
76

MICHAEL McPARLANE
MANNY FRANCISCO
Manila, Phillipines
TAYLOR JONES
Cagle Cartoons
77

RANDY BISH, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

78

PHELPS LIKES POT

79

Bumbling Biden
Throughout his public career,
then-Senator Biden had a reputa-
tion for shooting off his mouth,
not to mention embellishing a
story from time to time. After
becoming Vice President, Biden
continued to live up to his repu-
tation. When asked about the
swine flu outbreak on NBC's
Today show, his efforts to calm
American's fears about the pan-
demic sounded more like a
hypochondriac parent ranting on
a health blog, implying that peo-
ple avoid planes, subways, class-
rooms, and all other confined
spaces. Unfortunately for Biden,
he couldn't avoid the cartoons.
TAYLOR JONES
80

ERIC ALLIE, Politicalcartoons.com JIMMY MARGULIES, The Record (NJ)
81

JOE HELLER
Green Bay
Press Gazette
RANDY BISH
Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review
82

BUMBLING BIDEN
DAVE GRANLUND
RANDY BISH, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review JOHN TREVER, Albuquerque Journal
83

Crazy Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney officially left office in January, 2009 but he did not leave quietly.
Cheney was quick to criticize the Obama Administration's national security plan, and emphasized the
danger of terrorism to the American public. His most controversial post-Veep statement defended his
statement on torture, or rather “enhanced interrogation methods” used as part of a “comprehensive
strategy.” Cheney could have taken a cue from his 2009 disapproval rating of 63%, which was lower
than anytime during his Vice Presidency, and removed himself from the political spotlight, but lucky
enough for cartoonists, he stuck around at least a little bit longer.
84

TAYLOR JONES, Cagle Cartoons

85

R.J. MATSON, New York Observer
86

CRAZY CHENEY
LARRY WRIGHT
Detroit News


87

JOHN DARKOW
Columbia
Daily Tribune (MO)
88

CRAZY CHENEY

89

JIMMY MARGULES, The Record (NJ)
DAVE GRANLUND
90

CRAZY CHENEY
JOHN DARKOW
RAINER HACHFELD
Germany
91

Twitter
By February 2009, Twitter was ranked the third most popular social networking site and
dubbed the Internet's equivalent of text messaging. The Web site, only three years old, became
a media and pop culture phenomenon. Magazines quoted celebrities’ Twitter updates, and
those updates, called tweets, were even used to break news. The 140 character limit and con-
tinuous updating fit with our love of new and simple technology, and cartoonists fell for the
site's cute little blue spokesbird.
NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
92

MIKE KEEFE
Denver Post
NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
93

R.J. MATSON
St. Louis Post
Dispatch
TAYLOR JONES
El Nuevo Dia
94

TWITTER
MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette

95

Mike Keefe, Denver Post
96

TWITTER
97

Palin Quits
On July 3, 2009 Sarah Palin announced, in her typical analogy-riddled “gee-golly”
fashion, that she was resigning from her post as Governor of Alaska. The 2008
Republican Vice President candidate said that she was doing what was best for
Alaska, and that it would not be in the state's best interest if she finished her term.
Opponents of Governor Palin used her resignation to support all the criticisms
they'd lobbed during her 2008 campaign. Media attention, ethical attacks, needing
more time to hunt moose – whatever the true reason for Palin 's resignation, the
move increased rumors that she would campaign for presidency in 2012, and
made her a major cartoon character once again.
TAYLOR JONES
98

NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
TAYLOR JONES

99

JOHN COLE
MIKE LANE, Cagle Cartoons JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette
MONTE WOLVERTON, Cagle Cartoons J.D. CROWE, Mobile Register

100

PALIN QUITS
ADAM ZYGLIS
Buffalo News

101

Gov. Sanford's Affair

When South Carolina's sanctimonious Republican Governor Mark Sanford turned up after
going missing for seven days; he said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail to clear his head. It
wasn't too long before the truth came out, in lurid emails published in the local newspaper;
Governor Sanford was having an affair—in Argentina. In a tearful news conference, Sanford
resigned as chairman of the Republican Governor's Association and wiped away any
Presidential hopes for 2012. Cartoonists, for their part, were hardly tearful and the juicy
details of Sanford's affair with his Latina soulmate were great cartoon fodder.

102

NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
103

TAYLOR JONES

104

GOV. SANFORD'S AFFAIR
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
SANDY HUFFAKER
Cagle Cartoons
105

JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
J.D. CROWE, Mobile Register

106

GOV. SANFORD'S AFFAIR
R.J. MATSON, Roll Call MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post

107

s Sotomayor
Obama Pick
When Justice David Souter retired, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia
Sotomayer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her appointment
was controversial not only because of her past decisions but because of her demo-
graphics. Puerto Rican Sotomayor was raised by a single mother and worked for
several Latino rights programs at universities and for the city of New York. Her
famous decisions in cases involving The Wall Street Journal, the MLB, and the NFL
drew attention. The biggest controversy sur-
rounded a statement, that she repeated
in a number of speeches: “I would
hope that a wise Latina woman with TAYLOR JONES
the richness of her experiences Politicalcartoons.com
would more often than not reach a
better conclusion than a white
male who hasn’t lived that
life.” This was not some-
thing some white males
liked hearing.
108

R.J. MATSON
NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
109

JIMMY MARGULIES NATE BEELER, Washington Examiner

The Record (NJ)
110

OBAMA PICKS SOTOMAYOR
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM

111

MONTE WOLVERTON, Cagle Cartoons

ERIC ALLIE, Politicalcartoons.com
112

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RANDY BISH
J.D. CROWE
Mobile Press-Register
115

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
116

DAVID FITZSIMMONS, Arizona Daily Star R.J. MATSON, Roll Call

117

Senator Franken
Former Saturday Night Live
writer and political satirist TAYLOR JONES
Al Franken became the
junior United States
Senator from Minnesota
in June after a long bat-
tle with former Senator
Norm Coleman. Less
then 300 votes separated
the candidates; after a
recount, court hearings,
disputed absentee bal-
lots and an appeal,
Franken came out the
winner.
Cartoonists, along with

the rest of the country,
were disappointed
every time the new
Senator took to the
mic in Congress and
didn't make a joke.
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PAT BAGLEY

120

JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette SENATOR FRANKEN

121

Iran Protests
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the
winner in Iran's presi-
dential elections,
beginning his second
term. Almost immedi-
ately, however, oppo-
sition leader
Mirhossein Mousavi
and his supporters
shot back with claims
that Ahmadinejad and
Iran's supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei rigged the
election and demand-
ed a recount. The fol-
lowing week countless
protests and rallies
were held all over the
world, and the streets
of Iran were filled
with bloody battles
between Mousavi's
supporters and the
Tehran regime’s goon
squads. Despite Iran's
ban against foreign
press, citizens' blogs,
tweets and Internet
photo sharing brought
the violence to the
global stage, and to
the editorial pages.
BRIAN ADCOCK
Scotland
122

JEFF PARKER, Florida Today RIBER HANSSON, Sweden

123

FREDERICK DELIGNE, Nice-Matin, France
PETER LEWIS, Newcastle Herald Australia
BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courant MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post

124

IRAN PROTESTS
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
MANNY FRANCISCO
Manila, Phillipines
125

ADAM ZYGLIS
Buffalo News
126

IRAN PROTESTS
OLLE JOHANSSON, Sweden

127

RANDY BISH, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Jimmy Margulies

The Record (NJ)
128

IRAN PROTESTS
JIM DAY, Las Vegas Review-Journal
STEPHANE PERAY, Thailand
CAMERON CARDOW
Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
129

DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
130

IRAN PROTESTS
NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
131

PETAR PISMESTROVIC, Austria
MONTE
WOLVERTON
Cagle Cartoons
132

IRAN PROTESTS

133

Bankrupt GM
With high gas prices putting the squeeze on consumers, smaller fuel efficient and hybrid
vehicles sold as SUVs languished on lots. Thousands of jobs were cut, but even downsizing
was not be enough to save GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy, and Ford was only barely
treading water. After big bailout cash infusions, the big three still reported consistent losses
every quarter and went to Washington looking for more help. Cartoonists, for their part,
weren't having any of it.
HAJO, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
134

CAMERON
CARDOW

135

PAUL ZANETTI, Australia
JOHN COLE
136

BANKRUPT GM
JIM DAY, Las Vegas Review Journal
THEO MOUDAKIS, Toronto Star JOHN TREVER, Albuquerque Journal

137

DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
BOB ENGLEHART
Hartford Courant
138

BANKRUPT GM
JOHN COLE
PAVEL
CONSTANTIN
Romania
139

MILT PRIGGEE
Puget Sound Business Journal
LARRY WRIGHT
Detroit News
140

BANKRUPT GM
JOHN DARKOW
Columbia Daily
Tribune (MO)
RANDY BISH
141

Madoff's Mistakes
On June 29, 2009 well-respected and influential stockbroker Bernard Madoff was
sentenced to 150 years in federal prison for bilking investors of an estimated $65
billion. Madoff was found guilty on charges of money laundering, perjury, and
three types of fraud in the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Those who knew him
personally were shocked by the charges as Madoff perpetuated the image of a
hard working family man with good values –the cartoonists saw him as a monster,
headed straight to Hell.
CAMERON CARDOW
Ottawa Citizen
142


143


144

MADOFF'S MISTAKES
DAVID FITZSIMMONS, Arizona Daily Star PATRICK CHAPPATTE, International Herald Tribune
145

JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
PARESH NATH, India

TAYLOR JONES, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
146

MADOFF'S MISTAKES
BRIAN FAIRRINGTON
Cagle Cartoons
STEPHANE PERAY
Thailand
147

JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette TAYLOR JONES, Politicalcartoons.com
148

MADOFF'S MISTAKES
JOHN DARKOW

149

R.J. MATSON
New York Observer

150

MADOFF'S MISTAKES

151

The Economy
When the economy turned for the worse in late 2008, the country put pressure on
the presidential candidates to provide possible solutions.
How would he or she handle job losses? What about the growing debt? Which stimulus
plan would work?
And after President Obama was elected, there were even more questions. People
were losing jobs, homes were foreclosed, businesses went bankrupt, and no one
could predict when it would end. Crisis, recession, depression, crash-no one knew
what to call it either, but everyone knew it was bad.
MICHAEL KOUNTOURIS, Greece

152

BRIAN FAIRRINGTON, Cagle Cartoons DENG COY MIEL, Politicalcartoons.com

153

BRIAN FAIRRINGTON
Cagle Cartoons
154

THE ECONOMY
PETAR PISMESTROVIC
Austria
Jianping Fan, China
ARES
Cuba
155

TAK BUI, Politicalcartoons.com
STEPHANE
PERAY
Thailand
ARES, Cuba
156

THE ECONOMY
VINCE O'FARRELL, Illawarra Mercury, Australia

157

DARYL CAGLE Below:

MSNBC.COM ANDY
Below:
SINGER
ANDY
No Exit
SINGER
No Exit
158

PAT BAGLEY, Salt Lake Tribune (UT) THE ECONOMY
DENG COY MIEL

Singapore
159

BRIAN FAIRRINGTON
Cagle Cartoons
ARCADIO ESQUIVEL, La Prensa, Panama
160

THE
ECONOMY
NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
161

Terror In India
Coordinated attacks and bombings terrorized Mumbai, India's largest city, on
November 26, 2008. The three-day assault targeted major hotels, popular cafés, a
transportation terminal, and taxi cabs, killing 150 people and wounding another 300.
Many people, including foreign travelers, were held hostage until the last hotel was
seized on November 29. The ten attackers were part of a militant terrorist group that
sought to “save” Muslims and force the region to be entirely Islamic.

162

CAMERON CARDOW
GARY McCOY, Cagle Cartoons

THOMAS "TAB" BOLDT, Calgary Sun (Canada)
163

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star

164

TERROR IN INDIA
MANNY FRANCISCO
Manila, Phillipines
CHRISTO
KOMARNITSKI
Bulgaria
PARESH NATH, India
165

Perplexing Pirates
Teenaged pirates armed with RPGs and automatic weapons have become a
common fixture in the Indian Ocean off the coast of war-torn Somalia.
Modern pirates were gangs of former militiamen collecting millions in
ransom and disrupting international trade. President Obama addressed the
attacks by promising increased military protection as Navy Seals shot pirates
and saved a hostage captain in an impressive rescue.
166

BOB ENGLEHART
Hartford Courant
DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Star
167

NATE BEELER
Washington
Examiner
JOHN DARKOW, Columbia Daily Tribune (MO

168

PERPLEXING PIRATES
PARESH NATH, India
JIANPING FAN, China

169

ches Sides
Specter Swit
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced in April 2009 that he was officially switch-
ing to the Democratic Party, as he felt the Republican Party had moved too far right for
him to remain a member. According to colleagues, Specter tried for years to remain loyal as
a moderate Republican but found it too difficult in the year leading up to his switch—but
conveniently the flip-flop also gave Specter a good chance at winning Pennsylvania's
Democratic seat in 2010. President Obama personally welcomed Specter to the party;
cartoonists were less thrilled.
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
170

R.J. MATSON
New York Observer
R.J.MATSON
New York Observer
171


172

SPECTER SWITCHES SIDES
TAYLOR JONES

173

RANDY BISH, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review DAVE GRANLUND, Politicalcartoons.com
R.J. MATSON
Roll Call
174

SPECTER SWITCHES SIDES
DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star

175

Violence In Mexico
This was a terrible year for Mexico as violence swept across the
country. After Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent thousands of
soldiers and federal police to battle the drug cartels throughout the
country and the drug gangs retaliated, storming bars, pool halls, and
malls in Tijuana and opened fire on innocent victims.
Shootouts were commonplace as corrupt police
departments were replaced with soldiers. Federal
agents were killed in droves and their mutilated
bodies were left in public places as warnings to
others. Death, violence and suffering were
everywhere in Mexico.
ANGEL BOLIGAN
El Universal
Mexico City
Mexico
176

NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
177

DAVE GRANLUND, Politicalcartoons.com MIKE KEEFE, Denver Post

178

VIOLENCE IN MEXICO
DAVID FITZSIMMONS, Arizona Daily Star ANTONIO NERILICON, Mexico

179

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)

180

VIOLENCE IN MEXICO
ANGEL BOLIGAN
El Universal
Mexico City
Mexico
181

Swine Flu
If someone had a cough in
2009, they probably had
swine flu –at least they
would think so if they
watched TV.
By June 2009 the Center

for Disease Control
declared the flu a pan-
demic after it was discov-
ered in over 70 countries.
Most victims didn't seem
to be very sick, and there
wan’t much to do about
it. Huge crowds in Japan,
all wearing face masks,
made an interesting sight,
especially because the
masks made no difference
in the transmission of the
disease. The Swine Flu
originated in Mexico,
which saw their tourist
industry dry up with the
double whammy of flu
and violence pandemics.
After the initial fear

passed, the swine flu
turned out to be
responsible for more
cartoons than fatalities.
JIHO, France
182

PAT BAGLEY
Salt Lake
Tribune (UT)
CAMERON CARDOW
183

FREDERICK DELIGNE, France
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
ANTONIO NERILICON, Mexico JEFF PARKER, Florida Today

184

SWINE FLU
DENG COY MIEL, Singapore RANIER HACHFELD, Germany

185

PETER LEWIS, Newcastle Herald (Australia) PETER BROELMAN, Australia
186

SWINE FLU
ADAM ZYGLIS
Buffalo News

187

NIK SCOTT, Australia
MICHAEL KOUNTOURIS, Greece

188

SWINE FLU
THEO MOUDAKIS
Toronto Star
CAM CARDOW
Ottawa Citizen
189

Gay Marriage
2009 was a year of advances and setbacks for gay marriage. It wasn't a huge surprise that
liberal New England states approved gay marriage—but in the Midwest Iowans were surprised
when their State Supreme Court upheld Polk County's ruling allowing same sex marriage.
Proponents of "traditional family values" were outraged, but the court said the case was closed.
On the usually progressive West coast, an appeals court quashed an appeal by gay rights advo-
cates to throw out a law banning gay marriage that had been approved by voters.
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.COM
190

DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Arizona Daily Star
ROB TORNOE, Politicalcartoons.com NATE BEELER, Washington Examiner
191

PAT BAGLEY
JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
192

GAY MARRIAGE
JOE HELLER, Green Bay Press Gazette DAVID FITZSIMMONS, Arizona Daily Star
193

JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)
194

GAY MARRIAGE
JIMMY MARGULIES
The Record (NJ)

195

Ringleader Rush
The Republican party had sunk so low, after being trounced in the 2008 elections, that
the only leader they had left to turn to was blowhard talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh,
who clearly enjoyed his new role. Rush’s frankest statement in response to Obama's
presidency –“I hope he fails,” was music to his listeners' ears, and one more reason for
cartoonists to revisit one of their favorite evergreen characters.
ADAM ZYGLIS
Buffalo News
196


197

PATRICK CORRIGAN
Toronto Star

198

R.J. MATSON, St. Louis Post Dispatch RINGLEADER RUSH
JOHN COLE, Scranton Times-Tribune SANDY HUFFAKER, Cagle Cartoons
199

ERIC ALLIE, Politicalcartoons.com R.J. MATSON, New York Observer
200

RINGLEADER RUSH
DAVE GRANLUND

201

Gates Arrest
Henry Louis Gates Jr., an African-American scholar, was arrested after breaking in the front door of
his own home by the Cambridge Police responding to a 911 call. Sargeant Crowley, the policeman,
claimed that Gates refused to cooperate, acted in a threatening way, and yelled that the officer was
“racist.” Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct and released four hours later.
President Obama, assuming the arrest was racially motivated, accused the Cambridge police of
acting stupidly, then backtracked after suffering from criticism in the media and learning more
about the case. The world watched as the President sat down for a beer with both Gates and
Crowley in an attempt to ease the tension that the incident created. For a President that rarely mis-
steps politically, this was indeed a "teachable moment."
DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.com
202

BRIAN FAIRRINGTON
Cagle Cartoons

203


204

GATES ARREST
NATE BEELER
Washington Examiner
BOB ENGLEHART, Hartford Courant JOHN DARKOW, Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
205

J.D. CROWE, Mobile Register
MIKE LANE, Cagle Cartoons CAMERON CARDOW, Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
206

GATES ARREST
MIKE KEEFE
Denver Post
GARY McCOY
Cagle Cartoons
207

n Landing Anniversary
Moo
40 years ago, on July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to set
foot on the moon. People around the world watched as Armstrong slowly climbed
down the ladder of the lunar lander, fulfilling a challenge President John F. Kennedy
made in 1961 to go to the moon before the end of the decade.
President Barack Obama said he wanted to use the anniversary of the Apollo moon
landing to show that "math and science are cool again." But with the space shuttle pro-
gram set to retire in 2010, America's future in space was looking cloudy. This all begs
the question: Now what?
208

PAUL ZANETTI, Australia

PETER LEWIS, Newcastle Herald, Australia

MILT PRIGGEE, Politicalcartoons.com
209

e Pope and Condoms

Th
During his first visit to Africa, Pope Benedict XVI reignited the controversy over the Catholic
church's stance on condoms by saying they are not the answer to the continent's AIDS epidem-
ic. "You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters. "On the con-
trary, it increases the problem."
According to the Associated Press, three-quarters of all AIDS deaths worldwide were in sub-
Saharan Africa, where some 22 million people are infected with HIV. The pope’s reliance on
religious dogma didn't go unnoticed by cartoonists worldwide, who took the pontiff to task
for irresponsibly blaming condoms for making the AIDS epidemic in Africa worse.
OSMANI SIMANCA, Brazil

HAJO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OSMANI SIMANCA, Brazil
RIBER HANSSON
Sweden
211

CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI, Bulgaria

OSMANI SIMANCA
Brazil
MICHAEL MCPARLANE, Politicalcartoons.com RANIER HACHFELD, Germany
212

THE POPE AND CONDOMS

MIKE LANE
Cagle Cartoons
STEPHANE PERAY
Thailand
JIHO, France
JIHO, France
TAYLOR JONES
213

Remembering Corky
Corky Trinidad was a treasure in paradise, drawing editorial cartoons for The Honolulu Star-Bulletin for forty
years. He was every cartoonist’s friend and a mentor to Hawaii’s young cartoonists. Corky was also incredi-
bly prolific, drawing a mind blowing two cartoons a day, with a color cartoon on the front page of the paper
and a second cartoon on the editorial page.
Hawaii has its own unique culture which Corky personified; he was the ultimate local cartoonist. Hawaii has a
crazy stew of politics that is steeped in complex back-stories and cultural flavor that Corky mastered and
served up with warm, gentle humor, every day. We posted Corky’s national cartoons on our cagle.com site and
in our previous Best Political Cartoons of the Year books, but our readers didn’t get the chance to appreciate
Corky’s local impact. There are no daily cartoonists working in Hawaii now.
Corky was a survivor of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. His nickname
“Corky” came from the long-running comic strip Gasoline Alley. He first drew for The Philippines Herald in 1961
and fled the Philippines because of harassment from President Ferdinand Marcos, who didn’t like being
criticized. Corky became an American citizen and was the first Asian cartoonist to be syndicated in the USA.
Corky’s philosophy for young cartoonists was quoted in an obituary in The Star-Bulletin:
“Aside from following the basic journalistic aims of

informing, instructing and entertaining, the editorial
cartoon, first and always, must make a statement,” he
wrote. “It must BE a statement.”
“I have never seen a great cartoon that sat on a

fence. I have never seen a great cartoonist who
tried to be loved by everybody on all sides of an
issue.” ... The ultimate purpose is to take a very
particular, topical subject and react to it in a way
that sets down a universal principle.
“I don’t know if I succeed day after day, event

by event, six days a week within deadlines.
Probably not. But the purpose every day is
to try.”
“And a few drawing skills help.”
We all miss Corky.

DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.com
214

Corky’s farewell cartoon as

it appeared in a book in
2004 by radio and TV per-
sonality Larry King,
“Remember Me When I’m
Gone: The Rich and
Famous Write Their Own
Epitaphs and Obituaries.”
215

In Memoriam
The year 2009 was the last for several household names. Some, such as Michael Jackson
and pitchman Billy Mays, died unexpectedly, while others, such as iconic actress Farrah
Fawcett, beloved TV host and announcer Ed McMahon, former NFL player and idiosyn-
cratic politician Jack Kemp, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, CBS News
anchor Walter Cronkite, Vietnam war architect Robert McNamara, Watergate informant
Mark "Deep Throat" Felt and popular radio broadcaster Paul Harvey passed due to age
or illness. Regardless, each of their lives and deaths were news and cartoon-worthy.
216


217

DARYL CAGLE
MSNBC.com
ROB TORNOE
218

IN MEMORIAM
STEVE GREENBERG, Politicalcartoons.com MILT PRIGGEE, Politicalcartoons.com
219


BRIAN DUFFY, Politicalcartoons.com
220

IN MEMORIAM

221

Artists Index
BRIAN ADCOCK, 122 PAVEL CONSTANTIN, 139
TERRY "AISLIN" MOSHER, xiii, 17 PATRICK CORRIGAN, 40, 86, 97, 151, 164, 198
ERIC ALLIE, 28, 39, 71, 81, 112, 172, 200, 204 J.D. CROWE, 21, 29, 71, 100, 106, 115, 206
ARES, iv, 155, 156 JOHN DARKOW, 22, 63, 64, 87, 88, 91, 102, 141,
149, 168, 195, 201, 205
PAT BAGLEY, x, 38, 45, 59, 72, 87, 95, 105, 111,
120, 133, 143, 159, 161, 166, 172, 179, 183, 192, JIM DAY, 14, 29, 38, 129, 137
212, 221
FREDERICK DELIGNE, 16, 76, 124, 184
NATE BEELER, 11, 27, 28, 33, 34, 41, 51, 57, 62,
65, 73, 92, 93, 78, 87, 99, 103, 109, 110, 113, 119, BRIAN DUFFY, v, 220
131, 161, 168, 175, 177, 191, 205, 208, 219
BOB ENGLEHART, 2, 14, 29, 52, 64, 67, 85, 110,
RANDY BISH, 48, 61, 78, 82, 83, 115, 128, 141, 124, 138, 167, 172, 205
145, 150, 174, 204
ARCADIO ESQUIVEL, 160
THOMAS "TAB" BOLDT, v, 163
BRIAN FAIRRINGTON, vi, 6, 13, 37, 147, 153,
ANGEL BOLIGAN, v, vii, 176, 181 154, 157, 160, 203
DWAYNE BOOTH, 5, 18, 35, 47, 84, 204 JIANPING FAN, 45, 155, 169
PETER BROELMAN, 13, 17, 78, 168, 186 DAVID FITZSIMMONS, 15, 32, 43, 51, 54, 57, 60,
74, 101, 104, 116, 117, 119, 128, 130, 145, 164, 167,
TAK BUI, 156 175, 178, 179, 180, 191, 193, 217
DARYL CAGLE, vi, xii, 3, 11, 20, 22, 30, 36, 41, MANNY FRANCISCO, 15, 77, 125, 165
61, 63, 70, 105, 111, 125, 130, 138, 158, 170, 184,
190, 202, 214, 218 STEVE GREENBERG, v, 5, 15, 127, 178, 209, 219
CAMERON CARDOW, 4, 18, 19, 44, 47, 53, 59, DAVE GRANLUND, v, xi, 52, 62, 75, 79, 83, 90,
129, 131, 135, 142, 163, 183, 186, 189, 206, 209 116, 121, 174, 178, 201, 220
DARIO CASTILLEJOS, 13, 22, 26, 157 RANIER HACHFELD, 91, 185, 212
PATRICK CHAPPATTE, 9, 12, 127, 145, 184, HAJO, 29, 134, 211
188, 211
RIBER HANSSON, 123, 211
JOHN COLE, 6, 17, 24, 37, 40, 59, 64, 67, 81, 97,
100, 123, 136, 139, 151, 173, 199, 221
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JOE HELLER, 8, 30, 40, 48, 64, 73, 74, 78, 79, 82, DENG COY MIEL, 16, 33, 153, 159, 185
89, 95, 100, 121, 148, 169, 177, 193, 217, 221
THEO MOUDAKIS, 23, 31, 38, 55, 127, 137,
SANDY HUFFAKER, v, 105, 199 187, 189
JIHO, 16, 182, 213 PARESH NATH, 146, 165, 169
OLLE JOHANSSON, 32, 127 ANTONIO NERILICON, 179
TAYLOR JONES, xiv, xv, 4, 10, 29, 30, 34, 58, 66, VINCE O'FARRELL, 24, 56, 157
71, 77, 80, 85, 94, 98, 99, 104, 108, 118, 146, 148,
173, 184, 198, 213, 216, 217, 220 JEFF PARKER, 21, 24, 31, 32, 39, 46, 49, 56, 123,
184, 209
MIKE KEEFE, ix, 7, 42, 48, 64, 69, 75, 89, 90, 93,
95, 96, 107, 112, 124, 145, 172, 178, 186, 194, STEPHANE PERAY, 12, 129, 147, 156, 213
207, 220
PETAR PISMESTROVIC, 7, 24, 132, 155
YAAKOV KIRSHCEN, 25, 45, 133, 149, 154
MILT PRIGGEE, vi, 140, 209, 219
CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI, 35, 165, 212
NIK SCOTT, 23, 188
MICHAEL KOUNTOURIS, 152, 188
OSMANI SIMANCA, 210, 211, 212
MIKE LANE, viii, 35, 45, 54, 100, 120, 151, 200,
206, 212, 213 ANDY SINGER, 158
PETER LEWIS, 124, 162, 164, 186, 209 ROB TORNOE, 22, 35, 62, 99, 191, 218
JIMMY MARGULIES, 14, 30, 33, 42, 62, 71, 75, JOHN TREVER, 27, 45, 73, 83, 107, 114, 117,
81, 86, 90, 103, 106, 110, 128, 144, 146, 173, 180, 137, 206
185, 192, 194, 195, 197
CORKY TRINIDAD, v, 214, 215
R.J. MATSON, 12, 24, 25, 29, 31, 33, 37, 43, 59, 60,
61, 65, 67, 68, 69, 74, 86, 88, 89, 94, 99, 104, 107, MONTE WOLVERTON, 8, 44, 100, 112, 113, 132,
109, 114, 117, 126, 128, 143, 150, 171, 174, 199, 197, 198, 204
200, 203, 217
LARRY WRIGHT, 42, 53, 68, 87, 135, 140
GARY MCCOY, 19, 23, 38, 60, 69, 114, 163,
207, 220 PAUL ZANETTI, 47, 136, 209
MICHAEL MCPARLANE, 73, 77, 212 ADAM ZYGLIS, 9, 21, 27, 28, 32, 42, 50, 85, 89,
101, 112, 126, 144, 153, 171, 180, 187, 196
You can see a complete archive of each cartoonists’ work on our website at www.cagle.com. Come take
a look! Want premission to reproduce a cartoon? You can do it online at www.politicalcartoons.com.
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