# No more daily Foxtrot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063 "2006-12-06T14:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/1 "2006-12-06T14:12:05Z")
From [here](http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468) > [@](#): > > Bill Amend’s popular FoxTrot comic strip will go to a Sunday-only publication schedule as of Dec. 31, 2006, announced Universal Press Syndicate today. The last daily will be Saturday, Dec. 30. Reruns of dailies will be available for Web usage. I for one will miss the adventures of the Fox family every day. But at least we’ll still have the Sunday strip. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/2 "2006-12-06T14:16:34Z")
Bummer. That totally sucks. That’s the only strip I read every day. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/3 "2006-12-06T14:19:25Z")
That will leave me only two daily strips, and I read Dilbert out of habit rather than the humor of the past. [Userfriendly](http://www.userfriendly.org/static/) is the only daily I will have that produces a good laugh often. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/4 "2006-12-06T14:22:46Z")
I wonder if Amend is having health problems. Otherwise, why cut back on a popular strip? Or is he just burning out a la Waterson and Larson? ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/5 "2006-12-06T14:32:01Z")
Mods, upon reflection I probably should have posted this in Cafe Society. If you could oblige I would appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![Rock\_n\_Roach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/6 "2006-12-06T14:44:04Z")
I came in here thinking that you were going to stop reading it daily. This is much worse. It’s the only comic I read every day. If I’ve off the computer for a few days, I even catch up on the ones I missed. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/7 "2006-12-06T15:05:11Z")
Off to **Cafe Society**. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/8 "2006-12-06T15:18:41Z")
Bummer. One of my daily reads. Brian ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/9 "2006-12-06T16:34:03Z")
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Although admittedly, the Sunday strips are usually better than the dailies. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/10 "2006-12-06T16:45:16Z")
Maybe, but the dailies allow a storyline and character development over the span of 5, 10, or even more days. The Sunday strips are almost always just stand-alone jokes. They’re only funny because the daily strips allow you to understand where the characters are coming from. One of my favorite strips too - \. Why do all the good cartoonists quit, and the bad ones go on forever? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/11 "2006-12-06T17:52:08Z")
Pretty sad, especially since my newspaper will undoubtedly replace it with some “family oriented” piece of crap like “One Big Happy.” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/12 "2006-12-06T17:55:54Z")
It is a shame, but it brings us one step closer to the complete collection. That’ll be a great (big) book. [QUOTE=Runestar] One of my favorite strips too - \. Why do all the good cartoonists quit, and the bad ones go on forever? [/QUOTE] If the good ones didn’t quit, they’d become the bad ones who go on forever. Remember, even Garfield used to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/13 "2006-12-06T18:05:04Z")
Bill emailed me once, implying that he would be hanging it up when his current contract ended. Well looks like it ended. Glad he decided to stick with Sunday-onlies, tho I wonder how many papers will drop **Foxtrot** completely once the dailies are no longer made? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/14 "2006-12-06T18:14:29Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] It is a shame, but it brings us one step closer to the complete collection. That’ll be a great (big) book. [/QUOTE] I’ll be first in line. **Foxtrot** has been my favorite comic strip since **Calvin & Hobbes** ended. ☹ I teach high school physics and Amend (a physics major in college) has provided a lot of good, geeky, laughs for me and my students. I sometimes include one of his strips on the last page of my tests. At one point I had a whole bulletin board filled with science-related comic strips (many of them brought to me by my students) and probably over 70% of them were Foxtrot strips. At least we still have Sundays. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/15 "2006-12-06T18:19:51Z")
Oh man! The first thing I do in the morning is read Foxtrot and Dilbert. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/16 "2006-12-06T18:40:33Z")
Bummer ☹ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/17 "2006-12-06T19:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] If the good ones didn’t quit, they’d become the bad ones who go on forever. Remember, even Garfield used to be funny. [/QUOTE] I remember when Garfield was funny. I think it was the early Eighties. He was much better than Heathcliff. Is that rotten egg gone now? For anyone in the computer world, I recommend [UserFriendly](http://UserFriendly.org) very much. You can read all the way back to the first strip if you want. Look for occasional homages to Bloom County and Cthulu references. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/18 "2006-12-06T19:09:17Z")
Damn. I’ll miss Jason and Quincy. I won’t miss Paige very much, but Foxtrot has been pretty consistently funny over the years. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/19 "2006-12-06T19:15:10Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Is that rotten egg gone now? Heathcliff is still around, outliving his creator, George Gately. [QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni] Damn. I’ll miss Jason and Quincy. I won’t miss Paige very much [/QUOTE] This sounds like it was written by Jason himself. I’ll miss _FoxTrot_ too. Here’s hoping that Amend finds something to occupy himself with, but I’m glad he’s still doing it weekly in the meantime- I’m still waiting for Dave Barry to come back! ---
**Author:** ![Birdmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063/20 "2006-12-06T20:54:55Z")
I echo the various "drat"s and "damn"s. At least we’ll have Get Fuzzy. And—this goes without saying—Mary Worth. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-daily-foxtrot/383063.md?page=2)