Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for February 02, 2019

Good old Buggy Bud.

It looks like Bud the bug has dug up the flower bed.

Those aphids are not up to code

If I didn’t know better, I’d say he was a peeping Bud.

Bud says, to work with the bugs, you’ve got to think like the bugs. Today he’s inspecting ants, he’s an antomologist.

I think he’s trying to commit insecticide.

This does not look good for the Ballard Street Archaeological Society: Bud has violated an ancient beetle burial ground (and dug up Sparky’s stash besides)!

Oh rats, now the Zeefrins are gonna have to spray and that will trigger Zelma’s allergies.

And we will have to suffer through another Women’ s Club and Streaking Society meeting with her sniffing and snorting. Ick!

He likes to get down and dirty.

Bud’s boss is around the corner, and Bud’s hoping to get promoted, so he takes his inspection job just a liiiiittle too seriously.

He really bugs me.

They seem to be headed for your butt, Bud. Go take a shower.

Big bugs bother Bud’s buds.

It’s almost 9am on the west coast. I can’t believe – amongst all the awful (i.e. beautiful) plays on words – no one has suggested yet that he’s trying to get at the root of the problem…

Bud enjoys his work.. but truth be known, he goes down on anything he enjoys…

Where the heck does he place the stamp, once he has inspected them?

He’s a Budding antspector. He missed the two flies bugging him.

He does know thats where Roscoe relieves himself.

Does anyone remember when Bud “The Bugman” Cramer wanted to show everyone at the Tiki the colony of Chinese fleas he’d collected from under the Higglepooder’s hydrangeas ?

Remember how they got loose because of Rose losing her … er … footing, and falling into Bud’s arms ( after she’d had several samples of Susan’s New N’ Improved Bonzi Bonanza Banana Daiquiris ) ?

Poor Fenton and the Little Monkeys were scratching for weeks !

Bud gets any closer and i’m gonna bite him in the nose.

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

There are pictures of me in existence that could have been used as the model for today’s comic, but I just couldn’t find one in time to post it!

Bud doesn’t want to know what is buried in Mrs. Borden’s begonias.

Is he still there?

Someone poke him and see if he’s asleep.

…or alive…