5 heartfelt cartoon farewells to Dolly Parton

Cartoonists on Dolly Parton's life and legacy

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A teenage girl reads a book from the Imagination Library and looks to the sky. She sees a cloud-like image of Dolly Parton playing a guitar. The girl says, "Thanks Aunt Dolly." The shadow cast behind the girl is labeled "330 million books donated".

(Image credit: Phil Hands / Copyright 2026 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon is titled "Dolly Parton 1946-2026". It is set at night and depicts the silhouettes of a man with a cowboy hat and a boy sitting on a hill looking at the stars. The stars sparkle and spell out "Dolly". The boy says, "I've never seen stars like those before." The man responds, "They're rhinestones."

(Image credit: Jonathan Brown / Copyright 2026 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

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