# Best Political Cartoonist **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779 "2000-06-08T18:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/1 "2000-06-08T18:34:19Z")
The thread in MPSIMS regarding the death of Jeff MacNelly made me think of putting this question here as a poll: Who do you think is the best political cartoonist in the USA, at this time? My top three choices: 1. Mike Luckovich 2. Doug Marlette 3. Tom Toles ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/2 "2000-06-08T20:16:42Z")
My personal opinion is that Toles is the best of those three, and the best of any daily-newspaper editorial-page cartoonists today. However, I prefer Ruben Bolling’s “Tom the Dancing Bug” and Tom Tomorrow’s “This Modern World”, which are a bit too edgy for op-ed, to any of the daily papers’ editorial cartoonists, including Toles. You can find both of them on [Salon.com’s comics page](http://salon.com/comics/index.html), if you’d like to check them out. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Phosgene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Al\_Phosgene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Phosgene)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/3 "2000-06-14T01:43:12Z")
Only Doyle has any interest for me, but he spends to much time on Republicans, who just aren’t well known. ---
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/4 "2000-06-14T02:28:42Z")
I agree with firefly, Bolling and especially Tomorrow are the best. I think it’s because of their blunt honesty and willingness to hold nothing sacred. The best dead political cartoonist of all time will always be the indispensible Thomas Nast. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/5 "2000-06-14T06:01:55Z")
The best political cartoonist bar none is ted rall. He can be found at the NYTimes and at [http://www.rall.com](http://www.rall.com) Go ahead, read him, soon you will all agree with me! ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/6 "2000-06-14T06:54:01Z")
donato. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/7 "2000-06-14T06:57:04Z")
I liked Jules Pfeiffer from the Villiage Voice. The voice lost its credibility as one of the top newspapers when he was gone. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/8 "2000-06-15T04:38:03Z")
I agree with Firefly about who are the funniest OpEd cartoons. (I got introduced to Tom the Dancing Bug via the Post’s Weekend section.) Those who are good artist are Pat Olphant, and Herbert Block (Herblock) as well as the late Jeff MacNelly. **SterlingNorth** ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/9 "2000-06-15T18:15:32Z")
My faves are (in no particular order) Paul Conrad from the LA Times Jeff Macnelly Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow and Tom Toles. There’s a cool magazine called “Comic Relief” that reprints a lot of political cartoons… look for it at your favorite large newsstand, or for more information write: Comic Relief Subscriptions P.O. Box 6606 Eureka, CA 95502-6606 It’s expensive, tho ($35 a year for 12 issues). Robin ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-political-cartoonist/21779/10 "2000-06-16T02:08:35Z")
Wiley of _Non-Sequitur_. My favorite is on my office door: [Welcome to Eternal Damnation and Tech Support](http://www.non-sequitur.net/archive/1998/11/nq981122.html)