Bill Amend will be taking the strip to a Sunday-only format after the end of the year. Bleah.
“After spending close to half of my life writing and drawing FoxTrot cartoons, I think it’s time I got out of the house and tried some new things,” said Amend. “I love cartooning and I absolutely want to continue doing the strip, just not at the current all-consuming pace. I’ve been blessed over the years with a terrific syndicate, patient newspaper clients, and more support from readers than I probably deserve, and I want to assure them all that while I’ll be now a less-frequent participant
on the comics pages, I’ll continue to treat my visits as the special privilege they are.”Amend, who started the strip in April, 1988, and who has more than 1,000 client newspapers, is taking time to pursue other creative outlets. “In addition to Sunday newspapers, we may see FoxTrot entertaining us in other kinds of media platforms,” says Lee Salem, president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate.
Sure, there’s plenty of matierial to recycle, and there will still be new ones. But FT has been one of the few comics out there (esp. on actual print comic pages) to almost consistently put a smile on my face. I’ll miss that
(via Les)