Herb Gardner
September, 1962
exit nebbish, stage leftWhen herb gardner wrote finis last year to his McNaught-syndicated comic strip, The Nebbishes, he felt as if he'd "been given 20 dollars and a new suit." The highly successful Nebbishes, as everyone knows, are amoebalike misanthropic humanoids who have also flourished on beer steins, cocktail napkins and ashtrays with such captions as "Next week, we've got to get organized." They had been Herb's constant companions for six years, and familiarity had br...
