Don't remember any details, because I have only a handful of the Warren issues from that era (I read Creepy in particular pretty faithfully from roughly '73-'78), but I remember him as a very solid writerm

I wasn't really aware of Lewis' work until people here suggested that I give the El Cid collection a look, but I've definitely become a fan since then. His work was high quality, and I think only Bruce Jones has a higher hit/miss ratio for me amongst the Creepy and Eerie stuff I've read.

Sad to hear that he passed away.

Oh wow, Dan, where did you find this news? I've been trying to find Budd again for a couple of years. I was the one who put Budd in touch with Steve Duin, the writer of that article, and I also helped get Budd some help from the Hero Initiative. Things looked good for a little while, the article led to a permanent space for his hot dog cart, but the space turned out not to work - not a hot-dog kind of place. So they went back to being itinerant, and next summer their Facebook page said they weren't healthy enough to run the cart. I'd exchanged emails with Budd but he stopped answering. I kept trying every Christmas. Just last week I noticed that someone had revived the Domo Dogs business in Yakima, WA. I emailed him but he hasn't answered.

When I met Budd at the ill-fated Domo Dogs location, he gave me a Dax the Damned poster and a cassette of himself reading scary stories. He was a friendly, lovable fellow who didn't deserve what happened to his life.

Sad to hear. I read Creepy and Eerie very sporadically back in the 70s and to be honest the artwork was often the main attraction for me at the time. I do like the Dax stories - though again, the Esteban Maroto artwork is probably the biggest reason for that.

Yeah, it is. It's also nothing new, which of course is just as sad. I remember reading somewhere that one of my favorite inkers ever, Syd Shores, ended up driving a cab before dying at, I believe, 59. Jesus.

Not, of course, that there's any shame in driving a cab or running a hot dog stand or, for that matter, in being unemployed (except of course for the attendant financial & psychological consequences, which unfortunately all too often produce shame, however unwarranted), but when one has a true gift for creativity ... *sigh*

It looks like it's impossible to see the Facebook page without signing up for Facebook, at least I haven't been able to find it. I'll sign up on Facebook eventually, but not today. Is there a link you can send me, or cut & paste the relevant part of the page?

I was just looking for some of his other work online, but there ain't nothing else. Yes one of the best writers for Creepy/Eerie. Very creative and always with a clear vision.
Apocalypse is particularly memorable, Ortiz's style was a perfect match.

Whoever owns Creepy/Eerie catalogue (is it Dynamite), should try with Budd Lewis Anthology, or Short Stories whatever, with modern editorial and intros by current writers/artists who were fans, see what happens. Current B/W renascence makes it a perfect time right now. If that goes well - the same with Archie Goodwin's stories and so on. But they have to bring a particular author to a younger audience directly and in a smaller serialized form, so they can relate that to Walking Dead or Rachel Rising or Stray Bullets. These cumbersome, blanket-reprints (of all issues of magazines/cb, altogether with old ads, letters and loads of other dated/irrelevant stuff) are almost counter-productive.