Rick Kirkman News Today

Note: The Daily Cartoonist has no idea if other USA TODAY Network newspapers will follow and run profiles of local newspaper cartoonists; it is our hope that more will take up the banner, and so we add "Part One" to our header. Prior to the USA TODAY Network standardizing their comics pages tomorrow a couple

‘Over time, the characters are like family’: Daily comics are disappearing from print editions of newspapers.

Lag time makes it hard for some artists to predict where pandemic is headed

When my full-time cartooning job at the local newspaper was eliminated a few months ago, I gave myself exactly one day to grieve. I’d been there for over 30 years and while it broke my heart to lose my job, I knew that better things were ahead. The next day, I decided to learn everything I could about Patreon. And, as it turns out, Patreon is not only a blessing for me as a cartoonist, but it’s giving my readers far more interesting and timely content than ever before. For those not famil...