But she used Michael’s children as an excuse to start the story over again, because she still had a lucrative contract and the syndicate still wanted to run it…She was planning to intersperse a few new and some reworked strips, but her husband left her and she didn’t feel as motivated.What are cartoonists supposed to do when they age??Not many are able, or even well enough, to make the “decision” to keep working and creating every day forever,
Not even when they know that some readers feel entitled to new strips and new stories.
We just watched Michael and Lizzie age a couple of years in real time.They’ll continue to do so till the syndicate or Lynn decide to pull the plug….But for now, people want to read it…it ’s in newspapers and has almost as many subscribers on GoComics as “Pearls Before Swine” or “Non Sequitur”…and twice as many as a lot of other popular strips. In fact, far and away the most subscribed strip on this site is “Calvin and Hobbes”…. all reruns from far longer ago.No one wants to kill these golden-egg-laying geese.
Lynn hasn’t “frozen” anything!
She turned 65-sh and retired.
But she used Michael’s children as an excuse to start the story over again, because she still had a lucrative contract and the syndicate still wanted to run it…She was planning to intersperse a few new and some reworked strips, but her husband left her and she didn’t feel as motivated.What are cartoonists supposed to do when they age??Not many are able, or even well enough, to make the “decision” to keep working and creating every day forever,
Not even when they know that some readers feel entitled to new strips and new stories.
We just watched Michael and Lizzie age a couple of years in real time.They’ll continue to do so till the syndicate or Lynn decide to pull the plug….But for now, people want to read it…it ’s in newspapers and has almost as many subscribers on GoComics as “Pearls Before Swine” or “Non Sequitur”…and twice as many as a lot of other popular strips. In fact, far and away the most subscribed strip on this site is “Calvin and Hobbes”…. all reruns from far longer ago.No one wants to kill these golden-egg-laying geese.