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bud grace at gothenburg book fair 2004 chester , pennsylvania buddy valentine american c. 1944 writer , penciller , inker bud_grace_portrait . jpg bud grace

bud grace

bud grace -lrb- born c. 1944 -rrb- is a cartoonist , who has worked on the comic strip `` ernie '' , whose title was later changed to `` the piranha club '' in the united states .
he also drew `` babs and aldo '' comic strip for king , under the pseudonym buddy valentine .
grace was born in chester , pennsylvania , grew up in florida , and currently resides in oakton , virginia .
grace has a ph.d. in physics from florida state university , and worked as a nuclear physicist at fsu before turning cartoonist 1979 .
he frequently makes appearances in his own comic strip where he often ends up in a straitjacket .
in 1989 the swedish academy of comic art awarded bud grace with the adamson statuette , and grace received the national cartoonist society newspaper comic strip award for 1993 for his work on the strip .
