Editing FoxTrot (section)

== Publication history ==
Cartoonist [[Bill Amend]] states that after he submitted strips for three years, in 1987 [[Universal Press Syndicate]] (UPS) offered him a contract.<ref>{{cite web|title=About The Strip – About Me|author=Amend, Bill |publisher=Bill Amend |url=http://www.foxtrot.com/about/ |work=foxtrot.com |access-date=2010-07-22}}</ref>
''FoxTrot'' was first syndicated by UPS on April 10, 1988.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1755/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919070317/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1755/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2012|title='FoxTrot' comic strip premieres today|last=Arvae|first=Lynn|date=April 11, 1988|work=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=2009-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=April 10, 1988|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB3377BE6B02E3E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Hunting fox in suburbia: New comic strip premieres|work=[[The Miami Herald]]|pages=1G|access-date=2009-12-21}}</ref>

On December 5, 2006, Universal Press Syndicate issued a [[press release]] stating that Amend's strip, ''FoxTrot'', would turn into a Sunday-only strip and the comic confirming it was on December 25, 2006, just 20 days later.  Amend stated that he wanted to continue doing the strip, but at a less hurried pace.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214210634/http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-12-14|title=FoxTrot to Cease Dailies|work=amuniversal.com|publisher=[[Universal Press Syndicate]]}}</ref>  This news was followed by a week-long arc of the characters discussing a "cartoonist" semi-retiring to Sundays only, and what methods he would use to phase out the daily strips. The last daily strip was shown on December 30, 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214210634/http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-12-14|title=Universal Uclick<!-- Bot generated title -->|work=amuniversal.com|access-date=2014-08-26}}</ref> At the end of its run as a daily comic, ''FoxTrot'' was carried by more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide.<ref name="ending daily">{{cite press release| url=http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210065602/http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=468| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 10, 2008| publisher=[[Universal Press Syndicate]]| date=December 5, 2006 |title=FoxTrot to Cease Dailies |access-date=2006-12-05}}</ref> Since moving to one comic every week, Amend has said that it's harder to remain topical because Sunday's deadline is 30 days ahead of publication, compared with just 10-day deadlines the rest of the week.<ref name= booth>Booth, John (April 14, 2010). "[https://www.wired.com/2010/04/interview-with-foxtrots-bill-amend/ Interview with FoxTrot's Bill Amend]". ''Wired''.</ref> Amend and fellow cartoonist [[Stephan Pastis]] joked that Amend switched to a Sundays-only schedule "so he could spend 18 hours a day playing [[World of Warcraft]]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/03/19|title=Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 19, 2017 {{!}} GoComics.com|last=Pastis|first=Stephan|date=2017-03-19|website=GoComics|language=en|access-date=2021-01-25}}</ref>