Howard Huge
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Howard Huge is the name of a comic strip produced by Bunny Hoest (creator of The Lockhorns), which appears in Parade Magazine. The comics are one-panel and star Howard, an enormous but lovable dog (a gentle giant, perhaps) and his family and neighborhood kids, and include such classic scenarios as Howard getting leaves all over the carpet or wagging his tail, thus negating his great poker face. Generally speaking, Howard's being large causes him to encounter inconveniences not normally faced by average-sized dogs. He is known to have been called a "maroon," as in "That Howard Huge.... what a maroon!"
Howard's fame started in a children's book called Howard Huge Comes to Stay by Bunny Hoest.