| Our Boarding House | |
|---|---|
 Sample of the strip from 1923 | |
| Author(s) | Gene Ahern (1921–1936) Bill Braucher (1939–1958) Tom McCormick (1959–1984) Phil Pastoret (1977–1984; Sundays only) |
| Illustrator(s) | Gene Ahern (1921–1936) Bill Freyse (1939–1969) Les Carroll (1971–1984) |
| Current status/schedule | Concluded daily & Sunday strip |
| Launch date | October 3, 1921[1] |
| End date | December 22, 1984 |
| Syndicate(s) | Newspaper Enterprise Association |
| Genre(s) | Humor |
Our Boarding House is an American single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from the interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies.
After Ahern left NEA in March 1936 to create a similar feature at a rival syndicate, he was succeeded by a number of artists and writers, including Wood Cowan and Bela Zaboly, before Bill Freyse took over as Our Boarding House artist from 1939 to 1969. Others who worked on the strip included Jim Branagan and Tom McCormick. The Sunday color strip ended on March 29, 1981; the weekday panel continued until December 22, 1984.
- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. pp. 299–300. ISBN 9780472117567.