>>92607376He's a free man, he can do whatever the hell he wanted. He was tired of writing the comic, so he stopped.
Do you have any idea how much work goes into making a daily comic strip like that, dealing with the editiors, doing all the storyboarding, art, etc? You practically never get a vacation. I don't blame the guy for wanting a break.
Plus he went out on a high note and didn't run it into the ground, which is more than can be said for something like garfield.