The strip was first syndicated by the Reporters' News Syndicate or by Newsday Specials (sources differ), but was then picked up by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Brumsic's daughter, Barbara Brandon, who would grow up to become the first nationally syndicated female African-American cartoonist, sometimes assisted her father with such tasks as applying Letratone, a transparent sheet with dots that read in print as African-American skin tone.