Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich
Type: Comic Panel
Frequency: Daily
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Dogs, bosses, garden slugs; who sits next to who at Thanksgiving. Cheating at golf, fretting the night away, eating over the sink, coughing into one's elbow; carping couples on long trips. Toenail clippings, cosmic order, hairballs, flop sweat, clogged pipes, clogged arteries, parking crooked at the mall.
That's what real life is all about. And that's what Real Life Adventures is all about.
For nearly two decades, Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise have drawn, and drawn from, the everyday stuff that we all slog through.
And on any given day, they like to think their little square slice of life is a nice change from the rickety roller coaster the rest of the world seems to be.
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Sometime around 1991, on a slow day in the ad business, two guys decided to try their hand(s) at a comic called Real Life Adventures.
Today, their hands are still trying.
It is truly a partnership straight out of the annals of eharmony.com.
Lance Aldrich is in his 60s. Gary Wise is in his 40s.
Gary is tall and trim. Lance is short and...um...not trim.
Gary can golf. Lance can't.
Lance lives near the city with wife Donna and cats. Gary lives in the country with wife Rhonda and horses.
Lance has sons. Gary has daughters.
Gary is organized and neat. Lance is quite the opposite.
Lance writes. Gary draws.
Gary graduated from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and did very well. Lance graduated from Michigan State University magna cum mediocre.
Different as they are, they share several things including friendship, a sense of humor, ordinary lives, a panel called Real Life Adventures, a deep and abiding gratitude to the editors who are kind enough to carry them, and the dozens of people worldwide who read them daily.
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As Lance told The Washington Post, "I think most people live the same kind of lives we do. There's nothing extraordinary in most people's lives. And it's just the daily little stumbles, you have to have humor to get through it. I think most people in a certain age range and a certain stage of life relate to our cartoon."
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