I was sorry to see that Howard Cruse just died on November 26, 2019, at the age of 75. This blog mentioned it, with a brief look at his comics career, and a few sample pages of his work.
http://fourrealities.blogspot.com/2019/11/Here's his page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_CruseOne of my favorites of Cruse was a 3-page strip in ECLIPSE magazine 1, May 1981, "Quick Trim", with an opinionated conservative barber forcing his views on his clients, page 1 of which is in the blog linked above.
I like Cruse's earlier work the best, up through the early/mid 1980's, with a cleaner linestyle than his later work, whimsical stories where his characters interact in a friendly way with the roaches in his apartment, a monster who lives under his bed, space aliens, and other low-key interactions with odd characters.