This time it's Gary Brookins, who had been at the Richmond Times-Dispatch since January 1979. Like a few others that have been hit by this epochal transition in the newspaper business, this is one of those surprises that is now sadly much less of a surprise. If you had asked me three years ago to write down names of cartoonists who wouldn't lose their staff positions under any circumstances, Brookins would have gone done on my piece of paper somewhere in the top twelve. A widely-syndicated editorial cartoonist, I believe he still also draws Pluggers and works on Shoe with Chris Cassatt.
