| Get Fuzzy | |
|---|---|
 Logo for Get Fuzzy comic strip | |
| Author(s) | Darby Conley |
| Website | gocomics |
| Current status/schedule | Running (on hiatus) |
| Launch date | September 6, 1999 |
| End date | New installments: November 9, 2013 (Daily); February 3, 2019 (Sunday) |
| Syndicate(s) | United Feature Syndicate/ Andrews McMeel Syndication |
| Publisher(s) | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Genre(s) | Humor, Pets, Family |
Get Fuzzy is an American gag-a-day comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. It features Boston advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets, a dog, Satchel Pooch, and a cat, Bucky Katt. While there have been no new comics produced since 2019, the reruns continue to appear in newspapers.
The strip's humor comes from the conflict between Bucky's and Satchel's personalities, which are extreme stereotypes of cats and dogs. Sweet, trusting, naïve Satchel is routinely subjected to the exploitation of cruel, self-centered Bucky, who is always torturing the poor canine. Rob, the middleman, is often frazzled from dealing with them, or more specifically, from dealing with Bucky's destructive nature and overall nastiness. The three characters live in an apartment on Boston's Longwood Avenue. Get Fuzzy often eschews the traditional "setup-punchline" format of most funnies, instead building on absurd dialog between characters.[1][2][3][4]
The unusual title of the strip comes from a concert poster that Conley once created for his brother's band, the Fuzzy Sprouts. "Life's too short to be cool," the poster read, "Get Fuzzy."[5]
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