The Home News was the newspaper in central New Jersey that my family subscribed to when I was a kid.  It’s where I was introduced to the weirdness of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, the trials and tribulations of Harry Hanan’s Louie, and the beautifully drawn, sweetly humored Tiger by Bud Blake.  Growing up, Tiger was comfortably familiar to me.  Blake’s gags revolved around everyday kid stuff.  The strip didn’t have the psychological weight of Peanuts.  There wasn’t a ton of depth to the cast of characters.  We knew that Punkinhead could be a nudge, Hugo liked to eat, and Julius was a bookish type.  Tiger himself was sort of his strip’s…