Bo Brown

Bo Brown was an American cartoonist whose gag cartoons appeared in hundreds of publications over a six-decade career. Born Robert Franklin Brown on July 2, 1906, he became best known for his single-panel humor in *The Saturday Evening Post*, *The New Yorker*, and some six hundred other outlets. In 1936, he created the syndicated newspaper strip *Such Is Life*. His catalog credits him as artist, inker, or writer on twenty-four issues between 1930 and 1976, with his work most often seen in *Pennsylvania Angler*, *The American Legion*, *Hello Buddies*, *1000 Jokes*, *Good Humor*, and *Gags*. Brown’s style was clean and direct, built around a sharp observational gag that needed no caption. He died on August 23, 1996, at age ninety.