"These Guys Are Hopeless."
- cartoonist's dad upon reading the first strips
The first “Mates and Dates” comic strip was published in a New England newspaper on Monday, August 31, 2015. This was it. Readers were then subjected to Buddy and Romeo’s failures every Monday through Saturday until Thanksgiving 2018.
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