Buddy and Romeo: Alone for the Holidays is a perennial humor book of comic strips that follows the title characters through a year's worth of select calendar holidays. From New Year's Eve and Earth Day to Election Day and Christmas, roommates and life-long friends Buddy and Romeo bumble through relationships and societal norms.
Alas, their search for female companionship is in vain and demonstrates why their only lasting relationships are with each other and with their respective mothers. In an age of social media one-upmanship, Buddy and Romeo offer a haven for readers to feel better about themselves. With each re-read, readers become active participants in dooming the characters to the same social failings year after year!
*Book details and formatting are being finalized and are subject to change. Paperback. Approximately 142 pages. Book measures 11” wide by 8.25” tall. Orders ship when published in October 2025.
Buddy and Romeo are two idiots whose only lasting relationships are with each other and with their respective mothers. Based on incredible true events, Buddy and Romeo are clueless when it comes to initiating new friendships and dating social norms. The comic strip series and animated cartoons playfully document the human condition during times of yearning and withering patience, equally satisfying our modern culture’s longing for immediacy and timelessness.
Buddy and Romeo starred in a comic strip called Mates and Dates, which was printed daily in the Sentinel & Enterprise from 2015 until 2018. During the latter publication years, it was produced under the pseudonym “by Some Miracle.” Buddy and Romeo and the Mates and Dates comic strip were co-created by Nathan’s wife Julie. In addition, she served as editor for the series and wrote several of the comics.
Understand THIS! A Buddy and Romeo Short was a finalist in the 2018 GoComics Short Shorts Animation Contest. Buddy and Romeo now appear in single panel cartoons, which are licensed worldwide through CartoonStock.
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The first hand-drawn animation of Buddy and Romeo.
"Understand THIS!" was a finalist in the 2018 GoComics Short Shorts Animation Contest.
Original teaser trailer announcement of "Mates and Dates” comic strip which began newspaper publication in August 2015.
An animated Buddy and Romeo comic panel.
NOW IN PRODUCTION: Preview of the fourth hand-drawn Buddy and Romeo short.
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