He left at the top of his game. I remember reading about one of the great English middle-distance runners of the 80s, Coe or Ovett, that one day he had finishe

He left at the top of his game. I remember reading about one of the great English middle-distance runners of the 80s, Coe or Ovett, that one day he had finished a workout, and understood that he wasn't going to get any faster, that he had peaked. He quit that day, and didn't run again. The comics pages, if you can still find them, are full of strips by people who ran out of ideas twenty or thirty years ago but keep on publishing. I think that Charles Schultz hit his peak about 60 years ago, but not even his death could prevent the publishers from keeping him in print. By the way, for all you comic-book nerds out there, Watterson contributed a few strips (three?) to Stefan Fatsis's "Pearls Before Swine" a few years ago.