Poor Arnold's Almanac

Poor Arnold's Alamanac was a newspaper comic strip by Arnold Roth. Each installment covered a single subject, with Roth devising gags on such topics as baseball, dogs, commuting, elephants, ice cream, smoking and the telephone.

Poor Arnold's Almanac
Author(s)	Arnold Roth
Current status/schedule	Sunday (1959–1961); daily & Sunday (1989–1990); concluded
Launch date	May 31, 1959
End date	1990
Syndicate(s)	New York Herald Tribune Syndicate (1959–1961) Creators Syndicate (1989-1990)
Genre(s)	humor, adults

Roth wrote and drew Poor Arnold's Almanac from May 31, 1959, to May 14, 1961[1] and again from 1989 to 1990.[2] Roth initially created a color Sunday comic strip for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, and nearly three decades later, it was revived for the Creators Syndicate as both a daily and a Sunday feature. Roth recalled:

I think the only other times I've gotten a regular check for doing work was when I had a syndicated feature with the Herald Tribune. And then a revival of that 30 years later. That was Poor Arnold's Almanac. ... They had a very good comics editor. It was almost completely a writer's syndicate. They had a few comics and the newer ones were B.C. by Johnny Hart and Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, which was very good also. It was sort of like Peanuts in a way, with bright little kids saying sophisticated things. But they had a few old-time things that they kept alive. I think one was called Mr. And Mrs. I can't rattle them off. So Al sold them Tall Tales, and I sold them Poor Arnold's Almanac, which ran two years.
It was a Sunday only, which was why they canceled me. They wanted a daily. They said it makes the Sunday feature stronger. The Sunday feature was doing—not great, but well enough for me to make money. At that time I was living in England, and my magazine work and record album work was starting. I wasn't in great haste to do a daily. But during one of my many moves, when I came back, I found that I had penciled a stack of dailies, but I was never going to ink them. I didn't want to get too locked up in the syndicate thing.[3]