Texas tragedy: Top ten cartoons of the week

At least 120 people are dead – including scores of kids – after devastating floods ravaged a central Texas county last week. That number will almost surely go up, and reports indicate Trump's deep cuts to the National Weather Service may have played a role in limiting the response.

While a lot of Texas flooding cartoons were used by editors this week, their favorite was a simple yet sympathetic response to the tragedy drawn by Bob Englehart. Jeff Koterba's flood cartoon, also popular with editors, was more pointed – it featured Elon Musk dancing on the roof of a flooded house waiving his government-slashing chainsaw.

Speaking of Musk, he also made an appearance in our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, a criticism of his new America Party drawn by Jonathan Brown. The bumper sticker on the car in the cartoon says it all: "Get us out of this mess."

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Jonathan Brown

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#2. Dave Whamond

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#3. Bob Englehart

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#4. Jeff Koterba

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#5. Michael de Adder

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#6. Dave Whamond

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#7. Jonathan Brown

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#8. John Darkow

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#9. Margolis & Cox

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#10. Adam Zyglis

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Daryl Cagle is the publisher of Cagle.com and owner of CagleCartoons.com, a syndicate that distributes editorial cartoons and columns to over 500 subscribing newspapers. See Daryl’s blog at DarylCagle.com and watch his video podcast about editorial cartoons at Caglecast.com