Each installment covered a single subject, with Roth devising gags on such topics as baseball, dogs, commuting, elephants, ice cream, smoking and the telephone.

[2] Roth initially created a color Sunday comic strip for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, and nearly three decades later, it was revived for the Creators Syndicate as both a daily and a Sunday feature.

Roth recalled: I think the only other times I've gotten a regular check for doing work was when I had a syndicated feature with the Herald Tribune.

by Johnny Hart and Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, which was very good also.

"All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so," wrote Updike in his introduction.