Change
Janz made the aforementioned drastic change to his strip beginning with the July 30, 2007 strip. In addition to changing its name to Single and Looking, he also cut out most of his previous characters (including Rufus, who was one of the first characters Janz had created). Sam and Jackie became the main characters of the strip, the focus of which now shifted to their struggles to find dates and live life. Travis, Zoogie, and Madame Red continued as characters but their roles were considerably smaller than they had been in the past.
Although Janz's motives were to get more papers to buy his strip, it quickly became clear that the change wasn't going to bring him that and he eventually came to the decision to end the strip on his own. Janz sarcastically said, "Maybe it needed a talking cat" on the announcement of its demise. He also said that he was ending the strip to focus on other interests and said that while he enjoyed drawing the strip, he was also working a part-time job on top of that and decided to focus on one career.
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