Lance Aldrich and Gary Wise

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 60ish. Gary Wise is mid 40ish.

Gary is still creating advertising. Lance decided he'd had all the ads stored in his brain sucked out and is retired.

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.

In their years of toiling together in the field of advertising, Gary and Lance have both won lots of awards for their work on behalf of companies like Daimlerchrysler, La-Z-Boy, Alfa Romeo, and K-Mart.

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. Real Life Adventures is syndicated by Universal Press.