Hilary B. Price is the creator and cartoonist for the Rhymes With Orange comic strip. Recently, Hilary won Cartoonist of Year at this year’s Reuben Awards, which are the Academy Awards for the cartooning industry. In 1995, she became the youngest-ever female syndicated newspaper cartoonist.
TOM: Where do you get the most readers these days Newspapers, website, Instagram, Facebook, etc.?
HILARY: The honest answer is I don’t know. I only know we are at the mercy of declining print media and fussy algorithms. We swim in rough seas. There’s one recent glimmer, which is that a reader can now subscribe solely to Rhymes With Orange on the Comics Kingdom site, and get the strip emailed daily. It’s kind of like a Patreon for us if people subscribe just to our strip. (Of the three bucks per month, Comics Kingdom gets half and Rina and I split the other half.