After much hand-wringing among Republicans anxious to end their primary blood bath, presidential candidateRick Santorum has finally decided to suspend his campaign. Facing a potentially embarrassing loss in his home state of Pennsylvania, Santorum getting out of the race now makes a clear path for Mitt Romney to become the party’s nominee, bounced checks from Newt Gingrich not withstanding.

This has been an exciting race, and much like the Hillary/Obama primary back in 2008, cartoonists weighed in with an onslaught of terrific cartoons. You can view our complete collection of Rick Santorum cartoons here, but here are a handful I thought were cool…

Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)

Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)

Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant (click to view more cartoons by Englehart)

Bill Day / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Day)

Gary McCoy / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by McCoy)

Legendary journalist and “60 Minutes” icon Mike Wallace died Saturday in a care facility in Connecticut. He was 93.

I can’t think of another journalist who could interrogate and cross-examine interview subjects the way Wallace did, making “60 Minutes” must-watch TV for more then a generation. Wallace’s death follows the death of another pillar of “60 Minutes,” Andy Rooney, who died back in November a month after delivering his last show-closing essay.

Here are some of the first cartoons to memorialize Wallace. I’ll add more as they come in…

Dave Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more cartoons by Fitzsimmons)

Joe Heller / Green Bay Press-Gazette (click to view more cartoons by Heller)

Dave Granlund / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Granlund)

Milt Priggee / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Milt)

John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Darkow)

Taylor Jones / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Jones)

After months of increasingly positive job news, March's jobs report showcased a bump in the road for economic recovery. The economy added only 120,000 new jobs last month,  which is about half of the December-February pace and well short of the 210,000 economists were expecting. Interestingly, the unemployment rate still managed to tick down a bit to 8.2%.

The economy is going to have to perform much better if Obama wants to tout the recovery during the upcoming presidential campaign. For now, things seems sort-of limp...

I know a lot of cartoonists hate drawing holiday cartoons, but I always look forward to using the unique visual imagery every holiday has to offer in new and interesting ways. 

As we're in the midst of a contentious Republican primary for the party's Presidential representative, I thought it'd be cool to post five cartoons weighing in on the race using Easter imagery. It's just too bad they weren't all drawn on eggs...

Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)

Jeff Parker / Florida Today (click to view more cartoons by Parker)

Chris Weyant / The Hill (click to view more cartoons by Weyant)

Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)

Bill Schorr / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Schorr)

RELATED: View our complete Happy Easter cartoon slideshow

Easter according to Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen.  

Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen (click to start slideshow)

Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.

So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.

Many cartoonists handle holidays very differently. Some prefer to use the opportunity to create funny gags, while others try to tie in the unique imagery to an event or issue that's currently in the news.  

Cam Cardow, the brilliant cartoonist for the Ottawa Citizen, has always treated Easter with a respect not often seen among the bunnies and chocolate candies. Many are more like illustrations than traditional cartoons. I thought I'd share some of his best here...

Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to launch slideshow)

Happy Easter! Many cartoonists claim to hate drawing holiday cartoons, but I've never understood why. Not only do editors and readers love them, think about all the visual imagery that comes along with Easter - decorated eggs, the easter bunny, candy! 

Check out what imagery our cartoonists have come up with in our new Happy Easter cartoon slideshow.  

My friend, “The K Chronicles” and “(Th)ink” cartoonist Keith Knight, launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this month to fund his first graphic novel, “I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator.”

The book will chronicle Keith’s high school senior year and college freshman year, when he performed as a Michael Jackson impersonator. “It was the best paying gig I ever had, “ he said.

With only  a couple of days left, Keith has just about reached his funding goal. Help him fully fund this project – Keith is a talented cartoonist, and this book promises to be a hoot!

View Keith’s Kickstarter page here

Today is yet another important primary night in the march towards the GOP Presidential nomination. Mitt Romney is out in front of the race by a wide margin, and it would seem Rick Santorum's only hope lies in some type of victory tonight in Wisconsin. Both Maryland and Washington D.C. also vote tonight, putting a total of 98 delegates on the table for the candidates to fight over.  

Since we might not have Rick Santorum hanging around much longer, I thought I'd share five funny Mitt vs. Rick cartoons before they become totally out of style...

Chris Weyant / The Hill, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Weyant)

John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)

Kirk Walters / Toledo Blade, PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Walters)

Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant (click to view more cartoons by Englehart)

John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Darkow)

Mike Keefe / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to start slideshow)

The Trayvon Martin case continues to be tried on cable television instead of in a courtroom. In one of the most outlandish comments involved with this whole tradegy, Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said he thought the hoodie Trayvon wore the night he was shot was as much responsible for his death as the shooter, George Zimmerman. 

Rivera has since backed away and apologized for his comments, but cartoonists have already latched onto the visual imagery of the hoodie (including me). Check out what they think in our new Dangerous Hoodies cartoon slideshow. 

On Wednesday, "The Titanic" will burst back into movie theaters sporting an $18 million dollar 3-D makeover. James Cameron, fresh from raking mud off the floor of the ocean, hopes to garner some greenbacks by tailing the re-release on the back of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. 

Cartoonists are all about visual metaphors, and we love a good ship-sinking cartoon (with apologies to Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino). I dug through our archives and found these Titanic-themed cartoons that I'm excited to "re-release" to an entirely new audience. And it didn't even cost me a dime...

Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)

Tom Janssen / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Janssen)

Nate Beeler / Washington Examiner (click to view more cartoons by Beeler)

Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen (click to view more cartoons by Cam)

Frederick Deligne / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Deligne)