The Better Half

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
Author(s)Bob Barnes (1956–1970)
  • Ruth Barnes & Dick Rogers (1971–1979)
  • Vinnie Vinson (1979–1982)
  • Randy Glasbergen (1982-2014)
Current status/scheduleConcluded daily
Launch dateJune 25, 1956[1]
End dateNovember 30, 2014
Syndicate(s)Register and Tribune Syndicate (1956–1986), King Features Syndicate (1986–2014)
Genre(s)Humor, gag cartoon, marriage

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.

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.

  1. ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780472117567.