Buddy's Blog

Sorry about yesterday. I was out of town. This is from 2006.

Tom Tomas in comments mentioned the “I am blind and my dog is dead” cartoon by Sam Gross. Sam was a friend of mine. When I first started drawing cartoons I dreamed of one day meeting Sam. And I did back in 83 or 84. He was a heck of a character and one of my inspirations. 40 years ago I drew this one. Of course it was inspired by Sam’s I am blind and my dog is dead cartoon. My cartoon appeared in the Lampoon collection Cartoons We Dare Not Print. I think that was the title.

Later on when Lampoon was bought out I had to threaten to sue them to get my submissions back. The new owners were located in California. Remember Mell Lazarus? Miss Peach and Momma? He was also a friend of mine. His wife, Sally Mitchell, was not only a wonderful person like Mell, she was also a lawyer. BTW, another time several of my cartoonist friends had their original art work stolen it was by the Heritage Foundation. The magazine was The National Review. They wouldn’t return their work. I went into their office in DC and the guy there flat out lied to me. What pigs they were.

This is from August 2005

Happy birthday to my number one best teacher of all time. Happy Birthday Marion Brady! He taught me political science. Maybe that’s why I’m so radical. Class of ’61, Manatee High School, home of the Fighting Sea Cows!

Google him. He’s not the Marion Brady who died in 2013. He’s the other one, the incredibly accomplished educator.  Here’s the card that I drew for him…

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Happy #99, Mr. Brady!

From July 2003