Buddy's Blog

Guess what! I just got back from a month in Europe. Mark Twain said that when women get old they want to travel. Geeze! When men get old they just want to sit on their butts and drink beer. I’m sorry that I haven’t been able to respond to your comments and email. I bought foreign phone service for a month from Verizon. The only place it seemed to work was in Lisbon. So I was pretty much hors de combat the whole time. Not only that, I was sick mostly. Bronchitis. I’m still hacking up big stinking loogies. But here’s the good news! (Or bad news maybe) All this week I’ll be posting vacation pictures! If I have the energy. Which reminds me of a very naughty cartoon that I drew many years ago. It was about showing vacation slides to friends. It was so naughty I didn’t put in in my Suckling Pig book. You’ll just have to stretch y0ur imagination.

This is from November of 1997…

The president of King Features syndicate back the was a guy named Joe D’Angelo. He was a really nice guy, and his wife, Marcia, was a real gem. My editor was a terrifically talented young man named Jay Kennedy. Along wth me, I had put both Jay and Joe in my strip. Joe appeared as Ernie’s boss at the Squidburger restaurant, and Jay had appeared as my editor. ( Actually Jay had appeared in the middle of the story about Effie, the one that I posted over the past four weeks. It broke the continuity, so I left it out this time.) Well one day Marcia said to me “My Treasure, (She called me her “Treasure”) Joe and Jay and others have appeared in the comics, but I never have”. So I drew this little story…

Another Sunday from 1998