Lichty created Grin and Bear it in 1932 and it ran 83 years until 2015, making it the 10th-longest-running comic strip in American history.

Situations in his cartoons often took place in the offices of commissars, or the showrooms of "Belchfire" dealers with enormous cars in the background.

skewered Soviet bureaucrats, always wearing a five-pointed star medal with the label "Hero".

A similar approach was used by Fred Neher with the layout of gag cartoons on his Sunday Life’s Like That.

[citation needed] After Lichty and Erenberg left the panel, cartoonists who worked on it included Fred Wagner, Rick Yager and Ralph Dunagin.