Honestly, I don’t care much for Foxtrot. If you were to get a few drinks in me I might even tell you I absolutely loathe it. Especially that smug, insufferable bespectacled boy who l’d like to feed to the crows. Still, it’s a popular strip, at least it was until it became a Sunday-only thing. Anyway, Comic Book Resources has an interview with creator Bill Amend:
It’s been a while now that you’ve been producing “Fox Trot” on a weekly basis. How has your life has changed?
I have a lot more time to do things like clean the garage, which is nice. Not that I have actually cleaned the garage since the dailies ended, but it’s nice knowing that if I wanted to, I could.
What was it that led you to make this change and how did the syndicate react to it?
My 20-year contract was coming to an end and it’d been pretty clear to me for some time that I needed to find a better balance of things going forward if I was going to stay sane. This job is rather all-consuming, and pulling all-nighters starts losing its allure after a while. My syndicate tried every argument they could think of to get me to reconsider, which I appreciated. In the end, when it was clear that this was what I wanted, they were very supportive on a personal level. As a business they were crying a bit, naturally.
