He drew it until his death in 1930, after which it was continued by cartoonists Brandon Walsh, Benbee, Darrell McClure, Dow Walling and Herman Thomas before coming to an end in 1932.

[3] Ahern was making an annual $35,000 doing Our Boarding House for Newspaper Enterprise Association when King Features Syndicate offered to double that figure.

[3][4] Some strips featured a large roomer, that the landlord had rented a room to and asked various persons to evict.

[5] Comics historian Don Markstein traced the proliferation of Puffle and other Hoople variations: The strip also adopted Our Boarding House's format of a single panel daily with a multi-panel Sunday page.

Ahern's topper strip, The Squirrel Cage, which ran above Room and Board from June 21, 1936, until at least 1947,[2] is notable because of the repetitive use of the nonsensical question, '"Nov shmoz ka pop?