Actually, Staci - I read an article on her 'retiring'. What is actually happening is that the older strips are going to be in "rerun", which I like because I can catch up on the family history.

Lynn (the artist) introduced this by having Mike's little girl going through a photo album and asking who all the people were (grandparents, etc), and Mike tells her stories in flashback.

That is the "retirement" - the older strips mostly, with some newer ones added - like today's.

So that's the good news - Lynn still gets a way lighter workload, and we get to keep reading!