Orlando Busino

Orlando Busino
Born	October 10, 1926 Binghamton, New York
Residence	Ridgefield, Connecticut

Orlando Busino (born October 10, 1926 in Binghamton, New York) is a US artist whose cartoons have appeared in McCalls, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, and many other magazines. Among his creations are "Gus," the long-running series of cartoons about a large dog that has appeared in Boys' Life magazine. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Busino grew up in Binghamton, New York. His interest in cartooning started at the age of 9 and by age 14 he sold his first cartoon and gag to the New York Daily Mirror. Busino also won cartoon contests in Open Road for Boys Magazine. In High School, Orlando drew cartoons for the school newspaper, including a regular called "Bulldog, with Central, the Wonder Dog," a super-hero style comic strip. He was drafted into the United States Army and served in Panama at the Albrook Air Force Station for twenty months from 1945-1947. While there he drew for the army unit newspaper.

After leaving the army, Busino went to Triple Cities College (now Binghamton University) and then the State University of Iowa, where he graduated in 1952. He drew cartoons both at the Triple Cities College student newspaper and at The Daily Iowan.

After graduating, he moved to New York City where he enrolled in the Cartoonists and Illustrators School at night, while working during the day at in the ad department of the Macmillan Publishing Company. After a year of working there, he sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post, and remained a freelance cartoonist ever since.

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