Boots and Her Buddies was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.

[1][2] Martin found work in 1921 in the NEA art department, and that same year he launched his strip, Girls, which had a character named Boots.

The town in the strip had numerous parallels with Monmouth, Illinois, occasionally displaying real locations, such as Sandy Mitchell's pool hall.

Another central character was Boots' close friend Cora, who was married to Professor Stephen Tutt.

From the comic strip's inception until World War II, Martin included a black maid character named "Opal," who was depicted as a racist Mammy stereotype as shown in the example below.

[7] As "mammy" depictions became less socially acceptable in the mid-1940s, Martin replaced Opal with "Dory," a white maid.

Written and illustrated by Martin, the storyline followed Boots' adventures on the homefront during World War II.