As we await the results of today’s election, here is one of the strips from Get Fuzzy, a daily comic strip by Darby Conley that has three main characters who live together in an apartment: a human Rob, a dog Satchel, and a cat Bucky. Rob is a nerdy single guy with apparently no social life who spends his spare time playing video games and is a fan of rugby. Satchel is naive, gullible, lovable but dim, while Bucky is devious, ignorant but thinks of himself as very smart, and is constantly scheming to find ways to make money and also torment Satchel.
I read the strip daily and decided to share this one to introduce it to people who might not have known about it. Sadly, Conley stopped producing new daily strips in 2013 and Sunday ones in 2019 but reruns appear every day and they have mostly a timeless quality and whatever current events that are alluded to that have become dated can be easily understood.
Get Fuzzy seemed to me an imitation Garfield for a younger generation: a bit sharper, but with fewer ancillary characters.
That was my first thought -- this is a blatant Garfield
rip offhomage.The featured strip, I have seen it before, but I do not like the drawing style.
Re Garfield, there’s this:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-not-just-you-garfield-is-not-meant-to-be-funny-6199556/
That noted, I do think it is its own thing, not especially derivative.
Yeah, after human -- dog -- cat there’s very little resemblance between the two (Get Fuzzy & Garfield). The humor itself (the most important and most defining quality of a comic strip) is completely different.
^ completely different, in that the strips actually contain some.
What, there’s another election today?
Is based on his own cat and the ears show that the cat is scared and angry Also read every day on Go Comics along with Non Sequitur
Garfield isn’t always funny, no, but it’s often relatable, more so as I age.
Get Fuzzy is / was my favv cartoon, but- like The Far Side -- the artist has retired. 🙁
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Get Fuzzy is definitely its own thing.
Also Darby Conly/the protagonist alter ego has this affinity for Sweden, buying Swedish cat food and even giving Bucky the Swedish word for “cat” as surname (Bucky Katt)
He also bought a kit with a model of a Swedish 17-century warship, but Satchel tried to flush it down the toilet.