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The Week’s October 2, 2026, political-cartoon gallery focuses on re-election fears, Pete Hegseth cast as a hero, and congressional control of spending. It credits ten cartoonists. Those are the themes of this particular selection, not a complete account of every political cartoon published that day.
What The Week’s October 2 gallery covers
The Week frames its Friday selection as “re-election fears, Hegseth the hero, and congressional purse strings.” The gallery is a dated collection of syndicated editorial cartoons; its headline and dek identify broad topics but do not provide a written explanation of every image. Read The Week’s October 2 gallery.
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Who drew the cartoons?
The Week lists ten artists in the gallery:
- Steve Breen
- John Darkow
- Michael Ramirez
- Bill Bramhall
- Drew Sheneman
- Bruce Plante
- David Horsey
- R.J. Matson
- Mike Luckovich
- Bill Day
The displayed credits name Creators Syndicate, Cagle Cartoons, Inc. and Tribune Content Agency. The available text does not map each individual cartoon to a specific agency or explain each cartoon’s visual argument, so those details should be taken from the individual image credits rather than inferred.
Other political cartoons published on October 2
Other outlets offered distinct selections that day; they should not be conflated with The Week’s ten-cartoon gallery.
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CT Insider’s weekly roundup
In a weekly roundup published October 2, CT Insider’s John Breunig described cartoons responding to Senator Eric Schmitt’s questioning of former special counsel Jack Smith, including a reference to confusion between the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes. The roundup also discussed cartoonists’ use of AI themes, dairy-farm workers who are immigrants, and a Wile E. Coyote gag. These are Breunig’s descriptions of that roundup, not a description of The Week’s gallery or a claim that all cartoons that day shared those subjects. Read CT Insider’s roundup.
The New Yorker’s daily cartoon
The New Yorker published a separate daily cartoon by Enrico Pinto on October 2, with the caption “How can you stand it out there?” The available page text does not explain the image’s context, so the caption alone does not establish its political target. See the New Yorker cartoon.
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Credits, images and access
The Week’s page promotes subscriptions and free newsletters, and says more than 350,000 people subscribe to its free newsletters. That is the page’s wording; it provides no measurement method or separate measurement date, so it should not be treated as an audited current audience figure. The page does not establish that subscribing unlocks this gallery.
The cartoons are credited through syndication and copyright agencies. The text credits do not establish that the images are available for purchase or reproduction; use the publisher’s page and its rights information rather than assuming the cartoons can be reused.
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