Foxtrot says goodbye to dailies
Due to his lampooning of Boondocks’ hiatus, it took me a few days to realize that Bill Amend actually was leaving daily publishing of his comic strip, Foxtrot.
The geeky wit accompany by sibling hi-jinx greatly appealed to me. I know I’ll miss it, since it was part of my daily ritual–viewing it online on my iFruit, of course.
Another cartoonist has laid down his pen: Bill Amend, who has drawn the popular strip “FoxTrot” for the past 19 years.
“FoxTrot,” which appears in more than 1,000 newspapers, will cease daily publication with Saturday’s strip. His Sunday cartoon, however, will continue.
With Amend’s departure, the list grows of high-profile cartoonists who have discontinued their daily strips because of creative burnout or family obligations - or both.
Aaron McGruder, creator of “The Boondocks,” stopped his strip in September after going on sabbatical in March. Others who took a breather - often a permanent one - include “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoonist Bill Watterson, “Doonesbury’s” Garry Trudeau, “The Far Side’s” Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed, who discontinued “Bloom County” and “Outland” before returning with the Sunday-only “Opus.”
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