Bill and Bunny were amazed at his very "grown-up" comments and used him as the prototype for Guy Wellington Frothmore, who became the focus of a comic strip.

cartoons featured a young boy who "questions life's complexities" and repeats adult concepts overheard from his yuppie parents.

[3] The strip was launched into print syndication across the United States and Canada by King Features on March 29, 1987.

[4] Strip historian Allan Holtz described the character: Bill Hoest died on November 8, 1988, from complications of lymphoma at New York University Medical Center.

was one of the comics featured on Morning Funnies cereal boxes in 1988 and 1989,[10] and the strips were collected in What a Guy!

was one of the "worst comics around"[11] while a couple wrote to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to deride the strip as "merely insipid" and that it "warrants no more space than Trudy or Marmaduke".