Bud Grace

Infobox Comics creator


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birthdate = c. 1944
caption = Bud Grace at Gothenburg Book Fair 2004
location = Chester, Pennsylvania
nationality = American
area = Writer, penciller, inker
alias = Buddy Valentine
notable works = "The Piranha Club"

Bud Grace (born c. 1944) 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 [ [http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/piranha/bioMaina.htm King Features Syndicate: Bud Grace bio] ] , 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 cite web
url = http://www.thecartoonists.ca/index_files/2002pages/4_october_2002_bud_grace.htm
title = Bud Grace, Creator of The Piranha Club
accessdate = 2007-12-12
publisher = The Cartoonists] , and Grace received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1993 for his work on the strip [cite web
url = http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/piranha/aboutMaina.php
title = About Piranha Club
accessdate = 2007-12-12
publisher = King Features Syndicate] .

References

External links

* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards2.asp NCS Awards]
* Autobiography as a haiku at [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/grace.asp www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/grace.asp]