In 1958, the strip won Barnes the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award.
Creator Bob Barnes produced the panel from its debut on June 25, 1956, until his death in 1970.
His wife Ruth Barnes and illustrator Dick Rogers continued the strip until September 30, 1979.
[1] Between 1982 and 1992, Glasbergen did the strip under the pseudonym "Jay Harris," so as not to confuse publishers who were familiar with his different style of humor and character design.
At the end of syndication, The Better Half was appearing seven days a week in approximately 150 print and online newspapers around the world.