After over a decade, Ozy and Millie to end this year

[FoX_MoLdY]

This past Thursday, cartoonist D.C. Simpson announced the impending conclusion of the long-running daily webcomic, Ozy and Millie.

Making the announcement on the site itself, Simpson wrote:

I've been posting strips as often as I'm able to deliver good ones that are up to my standards. The fact that that's become less often is quite significant.

I don't think comic strips, or creative projects in general, ought to continue long after the creator has mentally moved on, and it's always tragic when they do ("Peanuts," "The Simpsons"). I always said I'd know when it was time for me to move on. I'm afraid that time is fast approaching.

I want to get out while I can still give the characters the ending I feel they deserve, and I'm going to do the best one I possibly can. That's going to be this year, and there'll be a final book collection to go with it, and after that the daily strip will come to a close.

After that, I strongly suspect I'll revisit the characters from time to time, perhaps in longer-form comic stories, which I'll also post here.

As a long-time reader of this strip, I'll definitely miss it. Anyone else have any thoughts?

[Benjamin]

It's always said when one's favorite characters and such become discontinued. Similar had happened with Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, and Bloom County/Outland. The artists were done with their work, having felt they were exhausting their resources with these characters... so they naturally need to move on. I'm sure the creator there will start up something else that suits his needs and likely appeal to most fans of his and perhaps attract more.
 
It's also like when a good sitcom comes to it's eventual end, too. It's inevitable and bittersweet.
 
Benjamin

[Aladasian]

Seems like a few good strips are deciding to call it a day and hang up their coats - i know The Gneech might be wrapping TSJ at some point this year and Sue's started the dissolution of Doemain online to move it toward a print-exclusive thing.

It is kinda a bummer to see a comic either discontinue or go on indefinite hiatus - considering that there's not really much else out there in quality and the few you do like are going away.

[Harle]

Nothing lasts forever. It's been a long-running strip, by any standard.

I've been reading it for years, and I'll miss it, but I know that things like Ozy & Millie don't exist in a little universe of their own. DCS has put a lot into the strip, and I know that she wants to move on to other things. If she feels like she can't find the inspiration and motivation to keep it going in a way that she's satisfied with, then that's that. She could either bend to pressure and keep putting the strip out anyway, watch it degrade over time into something much less than it was in its prime, or end it while she still cares about it.

[Alex]

I've watched and followed this strip for a very long time, and it's one of my favorites. I always looked forward to getting up in the mornings and being able to see a new one. I'm going to miss it dearly. Kinda gives you that sad feeling after finishing a really good book; that general, "Wow. It's over." feeling.

Regardless, I wish DCS all the best with whatever she chooses to pursue next! 

[WereCat]

I remember reading D.C.'s message on the comic's site, and thinking that it's really kind of a shame; it's always been one of my favourites.

But, it's been a good run; probably better to end it before it starts getting stale.  Still, though; like others have made comments along the lines of, it's kind of like seeing one of your favourite shows coming to an end - you knew it had to happen sooner or later, but it's still kind of a bummer when it happens.

Still, I wish DCS the best with whatever she would decide to do next.

[Ekevoo]

Oh noes! D:

 

I've been reading Ozy and Millie since 2000, it's surely one of my first webcomics and it's always been one of my favorite ones. I will miss it dearly just as well.

But it's thanks to the bravery of great pioneer cartoonists such as D.C. that we have today an incredible range of webcomics to read, good and bad. O&M has been definitely one of the first good ones. Thanks for your longstanding contributions, D.C.! <3

[Vulpyra]

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[Aaeden]

Oh heck... what was that one webcomic I used to read religiously that ended a while back? *ponders*

I think it was Altermeta. Wonderful art style on that comic.