The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965.

His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist.

[1] Art Sansom created The Born Loser after spending 20 years churning out the illustrations on his syndicate's serious strips.

[2] Initially, the strip had no recurring characters but now focuses on the Thornapple family and the few people in their lives.

His appearance looked much more boyish with the new hairstyle as his wardrobe was updated with jeans, sweatshirts, and tennis shoes.

The character's name is a variation on veeblefetzer, a word popularized in the 1950s by Harvey Kurtzman in early issues of Mad.

Gradually, it developed a stable cast of Brutus Thornapple, his wife Gladys, his mother-in-law Ramona Gargle, his boss Rancid Veeblefester, Brutus and Gladys's dim-witted son Wilberforce, and the mischievous neighbor Hurricane Hattie O'Hara.

[3] On November 1, 2021, Chip Sansom took a two-month sabbatical from the daily requirements of producing the strip due to the unexpected surgery he underwent.