Walt Handelsman | Tribune Content Agency

Steve Breen| Creators Syndicate

Drew Sheneman | Tribune Content Agency

David Horsey | Tribune Content Agency

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Michael Ramirez | Creators Syndicate

Jack Ohman | Tribune Content Agency

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Mike Luckovich | Creators Syndicate

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Walt Handelsman | Tribune Content Agency

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Jack Ohman | Tribune Content Agency

Mike Luckovich | Creators Syndicate

Nick Anderson | Tribune Content Agency

Steve Breen | Creators Syndicate

Walt Handelsman | Tribune Content Agency

Nick Anderson | Tribune Content Agency

Joey Weatherford | Tribune Content Agency

Mike Luckovich | Creators Syndicate

Jack Ohman | Tribune Content Agency

Phil Hands | Tribune Content Agency

Drew Sheneman | Tribune Content Agency

David Horsey | Tribune Content Agency

Michael Ramirez| Creators Syndicate

Steve Breen| Creators Syndicate

Joey Weatherford | Tribune Content Agency

Joel Pett | Tribune Content Agency

Bill Bramhall | Tribune Content Agency

Joey Weatherford | Tribune Content Agency

Joey Weatherford | Tribune Content Agency

Joel Pett | Tribune Content Agency

Joel Pett | Tribune Content Agency

Nick Anderson | Tribune Content Agency

Michael Ramirez | Creators Syndicate

Nick Anderson | Tribune Content Agency

Phil Hands | Tribune Content Agency

Drew Sheneman | Tribune Content Agency

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy last week called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. The label would state “that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” Murthy wrote.

In the editorial cartoon gallery’s lead image, Walt Handelsman makes the short leap from smokes to screens by coming up with a social media cigarette pack branded “Scrollboro.” Emoji swirl around the head of Steve Breen’s teen instead of smoke. Drew Sheneman portrays a social media control room where users’ emotions are dialed up and down with a tweak of the algorithm.

The Supreme Court struck down a ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. Bill Bramhall draws the Grim Reaper shooting with abandon, saying “Technically, it’s not a machine gun.” Michael Ramirez has victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in the nation’s history, saying the same thing from the grave.

Editorial cartoonists also took note of the death of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays, the longtime New York and San Francisco Giant. Bramhall reproduces Mays’ iconic over-the-shoulder catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, only instead of roaming center field, Mays is in heaven.

Other news events in this week’s gallery include the presidential campaign; the war in Gaza; and the heat wave gripping half of the country.

Cartoons were drawn by Jack Ohman, Nick Anderson, Bill Bramhall, Drew Sheneman, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands, Joel Pett and Joey Weatherford of Tribune Content Agency; and Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen and Michael Ramirez of Creators Syndicate.

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