Arthur "Bugs" Baer (January 9, 1886 – May 17, 1969) was an American journalist and humorist. Baer was prominent in the New York City journalism and entertainment scene for many years and worked as a sports journalist and cartoonist. Called by The New York Times "one of the country's best-known humorists," he wrote the humor column "One Word Led to Another" for the King Features Syndicate (the Hearst papers).