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Is QC close to its ending?

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A Duck:
This year will mark the 12th year of QC. Jeph has been doing this for much longer than most webcomic artists do.
Last year he started Alice Grove. As much as it's not supposed to be a replacement for QC, Jeph has reffered to it as a "pet project".

And now, well, the fecal matter hit the revolving blades hard with the Faye situation.

This is a question i've seen coming up quite frequently on the WCDTs... Is Jeph leading QC to it's conclusion somewhat soon?

pwhodges:
I think that to end it, Jeph would want to take Marten - the original and consistent core of the comic - to a settled place.  But he's only just embarking on a new relationship, so surely that point won't be reached any time soon.

Consilium:
Idk, I think it'd be cool if Claireten was endgame.

TheEvilDog:
Jim Davis has been working on Garfield since 1978.
Bill Watterson worked on Calvin & Hobbes from 1985 to 1995
Cathy, by Cathy Guisewite ran from 1976 to 2010.

There's no real way of knowing if Jeph is ending QC. A lot of people are worried, especially in light of GWS' recent announcement and Shortpacked ending.
Then again, this is just pointless supposition at this point precisely because Jeph has not made any announcement of any kind. There hasn't been any announcement on the comic, nor has there been one on Patreon. Jeph's been pretty good to the readers and I doubt that he would just.....end the comic without some sort of forewarning.

Alice Grove is a story that Jeph has wanted to tell for a few years

BenRG:
One of the sequential art record holders is Peanuts, which lasted fifty years and only ended when Charles Schultz was too ill to continue to draw the strips.

I doubt that Jeph wants to keep making QC that long. That said, I'm not sure if we're looking at the plot endgame. There are two implied major plot lines to be addressed - Hannelore learning to be 'normal' (or as normal as she gets) and Momo's quest to be fully accepted, especially in her own perceptions, as a real person. That sets aside whatever else Jeph can choose to add in strips to come; there is lots of story-telling potential hovering around relatively new characters like Emily and Claire's mother.

Ultimately, as with Watterson, in the end it will depend on when Jeph thinks that he has told all the stories that the universe allows him to tell or if, like Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del, he decides he's written himself into a characterisation and plot corner that requires a reset (which he subsequently cancels as he's lost interest).

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