Life's Like That
| 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 — the panel was initially distributed by Consolidated News Features, and later by the Bell-McClure Syndicate and the United Feature Syndicate.
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.
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.