[Torplexed]

I think what I find most admirable about Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbs, along with Berkeley Breathed of Bloom County and Gary Larson of The Far Side is that they all had the integrity to retire their strips at or near the height of their popularity. There are too many cartoonists who just phone it in year after year, or have turned the actual work over to someone else.

Reading those tired worn-out comic strips is sort of the pen and ink equivalent of Late Night with David Letterman. It's still the same guy, but the passion and originality are long gone.