George Lichty (May 16, 1905 – July 18, 1983) was an American cartoonist, creator of the daily and Sunday cartoon series Grin and Bear It.

[1][2] Graduating from the University of Michigan in 1929, he began his newspaper career doing spot cartoons and sports drawings for the Chicago Daily Times.

A member of the San Francisco Press Club, Lichty performed as a percussionist with the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band.

Scenes in his cartoons were often set in the offices of commissars or the showrooms of "Belchfire" dealers with enormous cars in the background.

The "gags" for Grin and Bear It were written by Arthur Erenberg;[citation needed] he would describe the scene and write the joke and then Lichty would draw the cartoon.