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Life's Like That - Wikipedia

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Life's Like That
Fred Neher's Life's Like That
Author(s)	Fred Neher
Current status/schedule	Concluded daily & Sunday
Launch date	October 1, 1934
End date	August 20, 1977
Syndicate(s)	Consolidated News Features (1934–1963) Bell-McClure Syndicate (1963-1972) United Feature Syndicate (1972-1977)
Genre(s)	gag panel

Life's Like That was a gag panel by Fred Neher which found humor in life's foibles. Spanning five decades -- from October 1, 1934 to August 20, 1977^[1] — the panel was initially distributed by Consolidated News Features, and later by the Bell-McClure Syndicate and the United Feature Syndicate.^[1]

At its peak, Life's Like That was published in 500 newspapers. The Sunday format gave several cartoons a free-floating grouping, with variations, including one arrangement similar to George Lichty's Grin and Bear It, displaying several square-shaped panels with one in a circle.^[2]^[3]

When Neher died at age 98 in Boulder, Colorado in 2001, Owen S. Good wrote in the Rocky Mountain News:

He is survived by pot-bellied businessmen, henpecked husbands, worldly-wise goldfish and babies with thin curlicues of hair, all actors in the everyday comedies he staged on the funny pages.^[4]

Publication history

Neher had drawn a comic strip, Goofey Movies, for five years (1925-1930),^[1] plus sales of gag cartoons to 42 magazines, including Collier's and The New Yorker, when the Bell Syndicate signed him on in 1934.

Life's Like That was launched October 1, 1934, and ran until 1941 but disappeared from newspapers during World War II. As the war concluded, it returned by June 1945,^[5] running until 1977, when Neher retired. He stopped doing the Sunday half-page in October 1972.^[6]

Doug Sweet, of The Montreal Gazette, recalled that his newspaper ran Life's Like That when it carried no other syndicated gag panels or comic strips:

Our comics have come a long way from December 15, 1937, when–to the best of our recollection–The Gazette began publishing its first regular cartoon. Life's Like That, drawn by Fred Neher (1903-2001), was a weekly, single-panel cartoon that sat at the bottom of the front page of the second section on Wednesdays. Soon after we added other strips, like Mickey Mouse. This newspaper was late getting into the comics business.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 235. ISBN 9780472117567.
^ ^a ^b National Cartoonists Society Archived 2009-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ Michael Maslin: The New Yorker Cartoonists, A-Z
^ Rocky Mountain News, September 26, 2001.
^ Bell Syndicate, Sunday color supplement, The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Sunday 17 June 1945, Volume 51, page 23.
^ Morehead, Toni. "The Nappanee Six".
^ Sweet, Doug. "New comic strips getting a test spin", The Montreal Gazette, December 31, 2005.
^ University of Colorado: "A Guide to Manuscript Collections" Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine

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