[1] She is the co-creator of Bumper Snickers in 1974, Agatha Crumm in 1977, Laugh Parade in 1980, Howard Huge in 1981, What A Guy!
Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as Madeline Mezz, she was the only child of a doctor and an opera singer.
Why muck it up?”[4] When she was 19, she married Ted Jungreis, and the couple moved to Huntington, Long Island, where she raised three children.
[3] Mezz and Jungreis separated after 21 years together, and not long after that, she landed a job with cartoonist Bill Hoest, creator of The Lockhorns, who needed an assistant to help compile his cartoons into books.
In 2001, Marcelle S. Fischer, in The New York Times, profiled Long Island's cartoonists, including Bunny Hoest: Bunny Hoest writes the snappy one-liners for The Lockhorns, a cartoon panel about a bickering long-married couple that appears in 500 newspapers.
Some comics are done by teams: writers create the dialogue and storyline; illustrators sketch the panels and strips in pencil.
Hoest produced Hunny Bunny’s Short Tales with Adrian Sinnott and Sharon Bowers (her daughter), a feature of illustrated one-minute bedtime stories for children.
[6] She still lives on Long Island, sings with the Huntington Choral Society, and produces "The Lockhorns" daily and Sunday.