Housecats are known to be aloof, but "cat-titude" reaches new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bitingly hilarious comic strip from cartoonist Darby Conley. Available daily and Sunday and appearing in 650 newspapers nationwide, Get Fuzzy is a wry portrait of single life, with pets. At the center of this warm and fuzzy romp is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad executive and guardian of anthropomorphic scamps Bucky and Satchel. Bucky is a temperamental cat who clearly wears the pants in this eccentric household. Satchel is a gentle pooch who tries to remain neutral, but frequently ends up on the receiving end of Bucky's mischief. Together, this unlikely trio endures all the trials and tribulations of a typical family... more or less.
The National Cartoonists Society honored Get Fuzzy with a Reuben division award, naming it the Best Newspaper Comic Strip of 2002. There are a dozen Get Fuzzy compilation books published by Andrews McMeel: The Dog Is Not a Toy (House Rule #4); Get Fuzzy 2: Fuzzy Logic; Groovitude: A Get Fuzzy Treasury; The Get Fuzzy Experience: Are You Bucksperienced; Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun; Blueprint for Disaster; Say Cheesy; Scrum Bums; Loserpalooza; I'm Ready for My Movie Contract; and Take Our Cat, Please; plus Get Fuzzy wall and box calendars.
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Get a Life by Tim Lachowski
Gil Thorp by Neal Rubin and Rod Whigham
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Three Steps Over Japan said, over 1 year ago
Socks are gone, but Bucky is still lucid. Darby, what have you done with the REAL Bucky?
Varnes said, over 1 year ago
A vacuum cleaners users manual…. scary…..And I can only imagine what the other “novel” is….All three panels are great today, and crack me up….Bucky in the drawer, Satchel coming to Bucky for security because he’s freaked……what a great strip…….
Lovecraft said, over 1 year ago
Most pets get freaked out when the vacuum cleaner comes around.
JoelJ said, over 1 year ago
Too funny! Vacuum Cleaner User’s Manual as a horror story is just brilliant.
formally known as doc white said, over 1 year ago
Someone has to say it.
The vacum story realy sucks.
I would say that i am sorry but I am not. lol
SusanSunshine
said, over 1 year ago
To each his own….
What’s a horror story to Satchel is pornography to the little cybot EB3 on Monty, who’s been seriously dating a vacuum cleaner.
orinoco womble said, over 1 year ago
Susan, I cannot make the semi-pornographic joke that immediately ocurred to me re: relationships with a hoover. “He’s just in it for…”
crweaver said, over 1 year ago
@Lovecraft
…because “Nature abhors a vacuum”.
masterskrain said, over 1 year ago
But if it’s not the Vacuum Cleaner Manual Satchel is reading, then what is it?
“The book of Better Bicycling”?
“Cats, the illustrated storybook”?
Will we ever know?
SCAATY_423 said, over 1 year ago
@masterskrain
“The Postman Always Rings Twice”? :)
Three Steps Over Japan said, over 1 year ago
@masterskrain
“The Attachment”.
TheTrustedMechanic said, over 1 year ago
@masterskrain
Knowing Satchel it is probably an equally benign household appliance. But speaking of appliance user manuals as horror stories, has anyone read the user manual and seen the warnings:
- Appliance has metal parts that may be sharp and cause cuts
- Appliance may create smoke, this is a normal occurrence when in use
- Caution – When appliance is in use the surface will get hot enough to cause severe burns
- Never insert metal objects into appliance as death may occur
And there were others,all equally ominous, and all in the user manual for my new toaster.
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Oh the horror, the horror Satchel. Be afraid, be very afraid. You will never have a toasted pastry again if you want to live.
seed_drill said, over 1 year ago
One of cats bonked himself pretty hard this morning trying to escape the vaccuum cleaner. He jumped up on a wood chair with a loose cushin, and “crash!”
Wolf in Exile said, over 1 year ago
Poor poor Satch…. Why did you start reading “Vacuums of 2012”?
Suzanne
said, over 1 year ago
“One hundred and one uses of a dead cat”