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.

Question: Where was J.R. Williams born?
Self-contained rewrite: Where was J.R. Williams born?