Conversation so far:
Who is one of Ernest Hemingway's drinking buddies?
In 1921, Jimmy Frise, one of Ernest Hemingway's drinking buddies during the journalist's days in Toronto, sold Life's Little Comedies to the Toronto Star's Star Weekly.
What was the longest-running comic strip in English Canadian comic history?
Life's Little Comedies was later retitled Birdseye Center, and became the longest-running strip in English Canadian history.
Where was J.R. Williams born?
Nova Scotia-born artist J. R. Williams single-panel strip about rural and small-town life, Out Our Way, began in 1922 and was syndicated in a peak 700 newspapers

Question: Who purchased the Life's little Comedies ?
Self-contained rewrite: Who purchased the Life's Little Comedies?