Darby Conley

Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip Get Fuzzy.

Biography

Darby Conley's first cartoons appeared in the Doyle High Trailblazer, his school paper in Knoxville, Tennessee. His single-panel strip of weirdness won him first place in a News-Sentinel student cartoon competition in 1986, thus planting the idea of someday becoming a professional cartoonist.

He went on to earn a Fine Arts/Art History degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts, continuing to improve his Far Side clones for the Amherst Student, graduating in 1994. While a student in college, he played rugby. Conley was also a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes.[1]

Get Fuzzy

Comics syndicate United Media agreed in 1999 to publish Conley's new strip Get Fuzzy about an anthropomorphic cat, Bucky, and dog, Satchel, living with their single young-male owner, Rob Wilco, which premiered on September 6, 1999.[2] The idea for Bucky's character came from a friend's Siamese.[3]

Awards

Controversies

On October 30, 2003, the city of Pittsburgh served as the punch line of a strip about tourism destinations based on smells. Offended residents of the area deluged the author with negative feedback that included death threats.[5][6][7]

A May 13, 2005 strip portrayed Boston-area sports reporter Bob Lobel as a drunk, prompting Lobel to file libel lawsuits against Conley and his syndicate.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "The Zumbyes: Alumni". Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Price, Robert (July 29, 2016), "Sound Off: History is achieved, but no photo to document it?," Bakersfield. Retrieved September 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Turczyn, Coury (2002). "Let's Get Fuzzy". PopCult Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Division Awards: Newspaper Strip". National Cartoonists Society. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  5. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Dan (November 18, 2003), "Comic strip apology to really isn't: 'Get Fuzzy' creator says Pittsburghers need to take a joke", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  6. ↑ "Pittsburgh Not Laughing At Smelly Joke - Travel News Story". KCRA Sacramento. 2003-11-05. Archived from the original on December 4, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  7. ↑ "Letters to the Business Editor: 11/11/03". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 2003.
  8. ↑ Voss, Gretchen (July 2005). "Head Games". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  9. ↑ "Lobel Charges Libel". WGBH. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on September 24, 2006.

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