With these words:

“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.”

Bill Amended and Universal Press Syndicate announced that FoxTrot will be going to Sunday’s only. FoxTrot is one of my favorite strips, and I get the FoxTrot Calendar every year (although they didn’t publish one a couple of years ago.

I’ll miss the dailies.