Orlando Busino (October 10, 1926 – January 11, 2022) was an American cartoonist whose cartoons appeared in McCalls, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, and many other magazines.
Among his creations were "Gus," the long-running series of cartoons about a large dog that appeared in Boys' Life magazine.
[1][2] He was drafted into the United States Army and served in Panama at the Albrook Air Force Station for twenty months from 1945–1947.
[3] After graduating, he moved to New York City where he enrolled in the Cartoonists and Illustrators School at night, while working during the day 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.