The Better Half
American comic strip created by Bob Barnes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the comic strip. For the play, see The Better Half (play). For the TV series of the same name, see The Better Half (TV series).
The Better Half is an American comic strip created by Bob Barnes. It follows the lives of a married couple, Stanley and Harriet Parker, and the usual annoyances couples have with one another, or the events around them, after years of marriage. In 1958, the strip won Barnes the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award.
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The Better Half | |
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Author(s) | Bob Barnes (1956–1970)
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Current status/schedule | Concluded daily |
Launch date | June 25, 1956[1] |
End date | November 30, 2014 |
Syndicate(s) | Register and Tribune Syndicate (1956–1986), King Features Syndicate (1986–2014) |
Genre(s) | Humor, gag cartoon, marriage |
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James Coco and Lily Tomlin made a sitcom pilot based on the strip for ABC in the early 1970s, but no series was ever made.