Cagle also worked with many other companies as a character designer, including Hanna-Barbera, the Smurfs and the Walt Disney Company, and worked with Henson on the character designs for Muppet Babies. He's also been a toy designer and an animator. In 1995, Cagle joined the Chicago Tribune Media Group as an editorial cartoonist, beginning a long and successful career in political cartooning. He currently provides cartoons for MSNBC.com, and he runs Cagle Cartoons, syndicating cartoons and columns to newspapers around the US. His work with Muppet and Sesame characters includes: