Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 14, 2020

Either she’s retiring or handing the strip over to another cartoonist…

oh no!!! not another one!!

Do. Not. Stop. This. Strip! I mean it, I’ve lost too many friends. I watched the kids grow up ( a little bit)! Marriage, boy friend, relations. No!

Oh no! She’s not going to stop stone soup right?

…right?

Ah, I’m gonna miss everyone. Jan is approaching 70 and deserves her retirement. Thanks for all the joy, Jan!!

I will mourn the loss of this strip. The Stone Soup family has always felt like my extended family. I understand that Jan needs to retire. Can we please have re-reruns?

Oh NOoooooooooooooo

oh nooooo! understandable but I’ll miss you so much <3

“All here”? Only the females were…probably the originals.

I understand in life there are changes.

Jan, if you check the comment section, I wish you the best on your retirement.

All I ask, if they run repeats please do not constantly reset the story to the beginning. Like that was done to the “Elderberries”, last week.

I enjoy this strip! I was hoping it would be around for even longer!!

Please Jan…if you are retiring, please give us one last August! Sigh….you gotta love August!

Check out her FaceBook page. There is no mention of retirement. We are approaching her 25th anniversary of syndication so she is doing something “special”. I didn’t read far into her FaceBook page, so if someone wants to enlighten us further they can look deeper at:

https://www.facebook.com/jan.eliot

By the way, that’s a pretty good self portrait (based on her profile pic)

I hope Stone Soup continues.

Ow, ow, ow! I got a splinter of fourth wall in my finger.

from Ecuador, SouthAmerica: I have been following this strip for a long time, and agree nothing lasts forever… either if you are retiring or handlind this strip to someone else or whatever, I just want to say THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH for your creativity. I’ll miss you.

Since she’s already gone from a daily to a weekly, I suspect she’s retiring completely. I hope she holds out for one more round of “Gotta Love August,” because I really do, at least the way she tells it.

I lost my Heart in Philadelphia. Bye bye. We can only wait until tomorrow for the other Stone to drop.

NOOOOOO

WHAT!?!?!

Love and loved this strip. If Jan is retiring may you have a wonderful one and may the strip continue in reruns. <3

Oh crap…

Oh my I hope only a dream, now we have to wait until next Sunday. Jan we all love your strip.

The retirement of the daily strip was back in 2015. And restarted the next year as a Sunday only. Can’t blame her for chucking it at what? 77 or 78?

I hope they get a good severance package. Jan, may all the fun you created for us bounce back at you.

Noooooooooo!

BTW, thanks for mentioning Heart Of The City, everyone! I checked it out and I love the art! I’ll be giving it a trial run to see if how much I liked today’s was a fluke!

Not funny, Jan, not funny!

Uh. Oh!

She was already down to Sunday only. Guess this will be goodbye.

Thanks for the memories!

Just freakin’ lovely. Another one of my beloved comic strips going away. :(

Say it isn’t so! I just discovered Stone Soup a little over a year ago!

oh man, i’m cryin’…. I know she started doing just the Sunday strips but I’m really gonna miss those.

But…but…what about all of those “you gotta love August” strips we’ve come to love.

Oh, please don’t. Do the opposite – bring the daily strip back!

“to be continued” so its not over yet. Here’s hoping this was just a nightmare.

This reminds me of a Star Trek, the Next Generation, there was a character on the Holo deck who understood he was fictional, and when Picard left he was likely to disappear. Wink out of existence

Nooo-ooo!!!

All comments aside, we’ll have to wait a week to find out. Talk about a cliffhanger.

Re-runs are here at GoComics. Go to https://www.gocomics.com/stone-soup-classics/2020/06/14?ct=v&cti=1171898

Please don’t stop the strip

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

OH NO!!!

Don’t even kid! I would miss everyone so much.

Well, if it has reached the end…it hasn’t been the same since the dailies stopped.

Please, please, NO!

I hope it isn’t ending

Sure would be nice to have one arc set 15 years in the future.

I guess once a week is too much…

The latter, I hope…

NOOOOO! Don’t leave us!

I sure hope Stone Soup won’t go stone cold… I love this comic and the great set of characters

25 years is a great run for one of the all time best comics.

Who’s Evie?

Aw!

This is my favorite strip!

aw

Oh nooooo — I will really miss this family; been following it for the past 20+ years. I didn’t realize that she’s almost 70 years old; so I completely understand her wanting to call it a day. Still … Wahhhhh.

I’m too new here to understand what is happening. But obviously, some people are pretty upset.

2020 Has stunk in so many ways….

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/06/14/rumors-are-running-rampant/

No!!!!!!!

If this is the announcement of her retirement, it’s the cleverest I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait for next week’s installment.

I hate to think that Stone Soup may be ending after all these years. However, I respect Jan’s decision either way. I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for next week …

Handing it over hasn’t worked so well for Heart of the City…

Please make it all just a nightmare

The strip is 25 years old in November so my guess is that is when she’s retiring. I hope she flashes forward the next few weeks and lets us know how everyone’s lives turned out!

Cue the theme from “Dragnet”

Tis, sad. one hopes you have a great retirement…and your characters live on in some fashion

OK now I’m scared

I don’t understand why most everyone is talking about a different strip instead of this one!

When she cut back to Sunday-only strips, I figured t was only a matter of time until she called it “Done.” I’m assuming that is what this is. I appreciate the part of yourself you have shared with us. Thank you.

From her Facebook today:Dear gentle readers…For those of you who saw this Sunday’s strip, I know you can see that I have decided to retire Stone Soup. I can’t imagine turning the strip, which is so personal to me, over to anyone else, and my syndicate is not planning on running reruns. The last Stone Soup strip will appear on July 26, when I will officially jump off the funny pages. My book collections will still be available for a while (Amazon and elsewhere) and GoComics will be running Stone Soup Classics for a long long time.

https://www.gocomics.com/stone-soup-classics/2020/06/15

Years ago, when I was still an aspiring cartoonist, I photocopied one of my strips, reducing it to the size of the other cartoons on the funny page, and pasted it there as a way to visualize my someday success. I have always felt so fortunate to be part of this amazing world, to have such a wonderful, enjoyable career. It will be as strange for me to see the funny pages without Stone Soup as it will be for you.

But… after a late start (I was 45 when is finally got syndicated) my 25 wonderful years in cartooning have brought me to a very “wise” age, and I am ready to be completely free of deadlines, obligations, and schedules. As many of you know I love to travel and if COVID ever gets beaten back I intend to do quite a bit more. I have family and friends all over the world, a wonderful group of cartoon friends in South Africa, and a bizarre love of long-haul plane flights. Look out world, here I come!

I hope I can find a way to tell you all how much I appreciate you. Your support and love of my work, my characters, and my perspective has been a huge gift. Thank you. Thank you for the privilege of entertaining you. Thank you for the love. Thank you for everything!

Stay safe. Wear a mask. Be kind.

— Jan

Gonna miss this family

https://www.stonesoupcartoons.com/ She is retiring. :( I’ve enjoyed this comic over the years! Enjoy your retirement Jan!

Noooooo…….

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/06/15/jan-eliot-retires-stone-soup-ends/

https://www.stonesoupcartoons.com/2020/06/dear-gentle-readers.html

July 26th will be her last comic ={

Have immensely enjoyed your work Jan. You retired about the same time I did so I’m not surprise that you’re completing it now. Go with much love.

Dailycartoonist.cim says she is retiring and the last strip is July 26.

wait, what?

First “Retail” and now “Stone Soup”?! darn

Very sorry to hear “Stone Soup” will be ending. However, it’s had a great run, and we still have a while before the big finale …

She’s retiring and ending the strip.

uh oh

retiring

Yeah, Jan announced on Facebook she’s retiring and no one will be taking over. No reruns either. You still have Stone Soup Classics, which I started following on Go comics when she went to once a week.

To be continued… When? Today was Sunday, and no strip.

No. Not another one. I’ve already lost “Retail” and “Pajama Diaries.” You’re taking the fun out of the funny papers!

I’d be sad to see either you or the strip go Jan