Bud Grace is a cartoonist, who has worked on the comic strip Ernie, whose title was later changed to The Piranha Club

The Piranha Club

Piranha Club is the title of a comic strip written and illustrated by Bud Grace. It was originally called Ernie, but the title was changed to the current one in 1998. The club is meant as a parody on Lions Club International, and the strip made its debut in February 1988...

in the United States

United States

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. He also drew Babs and Aldo comic strip for King

King Features Syndicate

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, under the pseudonym

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 Buddy Valentine. Grace was born in Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester, Pennsylvania

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, grew up in Florida

Florida

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, and currently resides in Oakton, Virginia

Oakton, Virginia

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Grace has a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 in physics from Florida State University

Florida State University

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, 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

Straitjacket

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In 1989 the Swedish Academy of Comic Art awarded Bud Grace with the Adamson Statuette

Adamson Awards

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, and Grace received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1993 for his work on the strip.

External links

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