The Lockhorns is a United States single-panel cartoon created September 9, 1968 by Bill Hoest and originally distributed by King Features Syndicate to 500 newspapers in 23 countries.

[2] In 2017 Hoest donated the archives of more than 37,000 of her cartoons - including The Lockhorns, Howard Huge and others - to Adelphi University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and an honorary doctorate.

Leroy works at an unspecified job, trying to make ends meet while Loretta keeps the home fires burning...literally.

The humor comes primarily from the exchanges between the couple themselves, with an occasional appearance by Leroy's outspoken mother-in-law and a hapless marriage counselor, Dr. Pullman.

Hoest has published multiple collections of The Lockhorns with Signet, Tor and Simon and Schuster's Wallaby Books.

In 2013, Bunny Hoest and John Reiner were honored with The Golden Key Award and incited into the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame.

Originally titled "The Lockhorns of Levittown," a reference to the new post-war Long Island suburban community, the single-panel cartoon appeared as a daily feature on September 9, 1968 until April 9, 1972, when its growing popularity brought about the addition of a Sunday cartoon, which incorporated a number of individual, stand-alone panels.

The panel's humorous and universal take on a couple's life together resonated with readers around the world, appearing in many different countries, for more than 50 years.

They appear in Spanish as "Los Melaza," in French as "La Famille Chicane," as well as in Chinese, German, Finnish, Hebrew, and more.