[3] Moore got the idea for In the Bleachers while working as sports editor at The Maui News.
The comic was launched in September 1985,[4] shortly after Moore was hired as an editor at the Los Angeles Times.
[1] In a July 2018 interview, Moore said that because of his condition of essential tremor, he could no longer create the comic strip.
In 2006, Sony Pictures Animation released the movie Open Season based on In the Bleachers hunting-related cartoons.
Voices included April Winchell, Kevin Michael Richardson and Jeff Bennett.