Daryl Cagle
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"Daryl Cagle" (born 1956) is an American editorial cartoonist, the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of Cagle Cartoons, Inc., a newspaper syndicate.

Cagle worked with The Muppets from 1979 through 1993. He drew a daily editorial cartoon panel titled, "TRUE!" for Tribune Media Services in 1995 and went on to draw local editorial cartoons for Hawaii's Midweek newspaper. He moved to drawing daily cartoons for Gannett's Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, he became the cartoonist for Slate.com in 2000; in 2005 Cagle moved from Slate.com to become the cartoonist for msnbc.com.

Cagle is an occasional syndicated columnist and speaker; he is a past president of the National Cartoonists Society and the National Cartoonists Society Foundation.

In 2001, Cagle started Cagle Cartoons, Inc, a political cartoon and column syndicate which distributes the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists and columnists from around the world to approximately 850 subscribing newspapers. Cagle Cartoons is a "package service" where subscribing publications receive all of the content and can reprint whatever they choose.

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They're doing different things. Some are little gags, some are moving, some are -- what can I say? Everybody does it their own way.

These are not good times for political cartoonists. And I think this controversy makes it worse, because editors are timid and they see their cartoonists as bomb-throwers who need to be reined in.

You'll see that Saturday just about every strip will be about 'Peanuts' in one way or another.

[Professionals also have taken cracks at the topic. ] Cartoonists hit the mother lode with this one, ... Giant bugs blend with images of doomsday cultists and visions of the apocalypse.