Hello, 2026!: Top ten cartoons of the week

2026 should be a fun year for cartoonists... if we're not all replaced by robots.

The fear of A.I. was front and center in a number of our most-popular cartoons this week, as technological terrors took the place of Baby New Year. But our most-reprinted cartoon was a funny New Year's resolutions gag drawn by John Darkow.

While New Year's related cartoons dominated this week's list, I chuckled at Chris Weyant's Christmas cartoon about out of control electric bills and Gary McCoy's riff about a bossy chat bot. Just don't talk bad about ChatGPT within earshot.

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

#1. John Darkow

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#2. Dave Whamond

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#3. Chris Weyant

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#4. Bruce Plante

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#5. Jeff Koterba

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#6. Dave Granlund

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#7. John Darkow

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#8. Dick Wright

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#9. Gary McCoy

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#10. John Darkow

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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