There Oughta Be a Law!, or TOBAL!, was a single-panel newspaper comic strip, created by Harry Shorten and Al Fagaly, which was syndicated for four decades from 1944 to 1985.
[1] The gags illustrated minor absurdities, frustrations, hypocrisies, ironies and misfortunes of everyday life, displayed in a single-panel or two-panel format.
The strip's original title was Bitter Laff, changing to There Oughta Be a Law on October 22, 1945.
[3] Fagaly died in 1963, with Warren Whipple taking over the art duties until 1981.
[1] Many strips ended with a character yelling out the phrase "There Oughta Be a Law!