Growing up in
Nappanee, Indiana, Neher was 12 years old when he was paid $2.00 for doing a drawing of a woman hanging clothes with a new type of clothespin. While he was a student at Nappanee High School, he took the
Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Neher succeeded in selling a cartoon to the popular humor magazine
Judge before he graduated from high school in 1922. He furthered his art study at the
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and after graduation, he worked as an assistant to cartoonist
Arch Dale, doing lettering and backgrounds on Dale's comic strip
Doo-Dads. Neher recalled: Several years of work on this strip gave me experience enough to attempt my own strip,
Otto Wall, a radio strip. A golf strip,
Layon McDuff, came next, followed by
Goofey Movies, an animal strip, and
Just Like Us, a kid strip, which appeared in the first issue of
Family Circle magazine and thereafter for four years. From 1930 to 1934, I freelanced to magazines, having some 40 markets, including
Punch, the English magazine. I was the first American to sell to
Punch in 20 years. In 1951, Neher and his family moved to
Boulder, Colorado, where he taught cartooning at the
University of Colorado for 12 years.
Retirement and death Neher stopped doing the ''Life's Like That'' Sunday half-page in October 1972, ==Books==