A new paper, The Chicago Sun, was starting, and their The Toodle Family, drawn by local illustrator Rod Ruth, started with it. This happened in December, 1941.
The domestic setting of the couple’s comic was chosen not as a direct imitation of The Nebbs, but because it was something they were very familiar with. The first two Toodle children were a bit older than the Baers’ own, but the writers still cited experience raising a family as their main qualification for the job. The twins were invented for the strip, and had no real-life counterparts. Each pair of Toodle kids consisted of a boy and a girl.
There was the occasional daily gag, but the comic tended toward storylines constructed like a soap opera. Stanley contrived the situations and plotted the general outlines of the story, with Betsy writing the actual script the artist worked from. Ruth eventually left the strip to return to advertising work and magazine illustration. The job was taken over by Pete Winter, another whose comics credits were sparse.
The Toodles ended in 1961
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