Buddy's Blog

This story was published early January 1993. I was trying to drum up some corporate sponsorships. Didn’t work. If there are two strips on a particular day it’s because the first is my original gag and the second was a replacement.

Been there, done that.

Robert R accused me of not having an ugly sweater.

If you’re into old cartoons you may be interested in this. Frau G was going through some of her old stuff and she came across this old card game from the late 30’s, Bonanza…

What’s interesting is that the box cover was drawn by Peter Arno.

Peter was a New Yorker cartoonist back then. He happened to be very wealthy.  “To be known as an artist was always more important to me than to be a millionaire.” I don’t know if I would agree to that. I have a big book of his cartoons.

Now you know where that saying comes from. If you can’t read it, it’s “Well, back to the old drawing board.”

Here’s what Loinfruit gave me for Christmas:

I tried it last night. It didn’t work. He also gave me four pounds of spaghetti.

Thank you for all your good wishes and back atcha!

 Once on April Fools Day I put salt in the sugar bowl. I was eleven or twelve. My old man shoved my face down into the sugar bowl. “Let’s see how you like it!” He wasn’t good at taking a joke.