Bud Grace

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Bud Grace
Bud Grace at Gothenburg Book Fair 2004
Born	c. 1944 Chester, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, penciller, inker
Pseudonym(s)	Buddy Valentine
Notable works	The Piranha Club

Bud Grace (born c. 1944)^[1] 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,^[2] 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,^[1] and Grace received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1993 for his work on the strip.^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bud Grace, Creator of The Piranha Club". The Cartoonists. Archived from the original on 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
↑ King Features Syndicate: Bud Grace bio
↑ "About Piranha Club". King Features Syndicate. Retrieved 2007-12-12.

External links

NCS Awards
Autobiography as a haiku at www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/grace.asp

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Persondata
Name	Grace, Bud
Alternative names
Short description	Cartoonist
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Chester, Pennsylvania
Date of death
Place of death

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