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Get Fuzzy #17
Catabunga!: A Get Fuzzy Collection
The Get Fuzzy team is back in action, and they’re jumping in with all feet.
Our tough-as-nails crew has been assembled. Bucky Katt has a plan to take out the ferrets next door, and it will require all of his powers of disguise and stealth to get the job done. Satchel Pooch is going on the offense and channeling his inner assault-broccoli to defeat the vegetables before they defeat him. And Rob, the unofficial peacekeeper, is left to clean up the aftermath before the whole thing becomes an international incident.
Packed with intrigue, covert aggression, and domestic warfare, Catabunga! is an all-out battle of wit and words that’s not to be missed.
Our tough-as-nails crew has been assembled. Bucky Katt has a plan to take out the ferrets next door, and it will require all of his powers of disguise and stealth to get the job done. Satchel Pooch is going on the offense and channeling his inner assault-broccoli to defeat the vegetables before they defeat him. And Rob, the unofficial peacekeeper, is left to clean up the aftermath before the whole thing becomes an international incident.
Packed with intrigue, covert aggression, and domestic warfare, Catabunga! is an all-out battle of wit and words that’s not to be missed.
136 pages, Paperback
First published November 14, 2017
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About the author
Darby Conley
47 books151 followersDarby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy.
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
While in high school in 1986, he won a student cartooning competition. During his Senior Year at Doyle High School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, Conley was voted 'Most Talented' by his graduating class. He attended Amherst College, where he studied Fine Arts, drew cartoons for the student newspaper, played rugby, and was a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes. (Fellow cartoonist alumni of Amherst include FoxTrot creator Bill Amend and the late John Cullen Murphy of Prince Valiant fame.)
Like Rob Wilco, the human protagonist in Get Fuzzy, Conley is an enthusiastic rugby union fan, playing during college and sustaining several injuries that failed to diminish his passion for the sport.
Before becoming a cartoonist, Conley held a wide array of jobs: elementary school teacher, art director for a science museum, lifeguard, and bicycle repairman. This eclectic collection of professions is reminiscent of those held by Douglas Adams, whom Conley has mentioned as a comedic influence.
Conley, an animal rights activist and vegetarian, lives in Boston.
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
While in high school in 1986, he won a student cartooning competition. During his Senior Year at Doyle High School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, Conley was voted 'Most Talented' by his graduating class. He attended Amherst College, where he studied Fine Arts, drew cartoons for the student newspaper, played rugby, and was a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes. (Fellow cartoonist alumni of Amherst include FoxTrot creator Bill Amend and the late John Cullen Murphy of Prince Valiant fame.)
Like Rob Wilco, the human protagonist in Get Fuzzy, Conley is an enthusiastic rugby union fan, playing during college and sustaining several injuries that failed to diminish his passion for the sport.
Before becoming a cartoonist, Conley held a wide array of jobs: elementary school teacher, art director for a science museum, lifeguard, and bicycle repairman. This eclectic collection of professions is reminiscent of those held by Douglas Adams, whom Conley has mentioned as a comedic influence.
Conley, an animal rights activist and vegetarian, lives in Boston.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
November 29, 2018
It's been a few years since I've seen a Get Fuzzy strip. Nothing seems to have changed in the interval:
Satchel is endearing, Bucky is annoying, and Rob is hapless (and hardly appears). This collection of Sunday strips is pretty heavy on word play. Some of the puns and malapropisms are more amusing than others.
p.s., I just learned that Get Fuzzy has pretty much been in reruns for the last four years, with only these occasional new Sunday strips being produced as it withers in syndication. Odd.
Satchel is endearing, Bucky is annoying, and Rob is hapless (and hardly appears). This collection of Sunday strips is pretty heavy on word play. Some of the puns and malapropisms are more amusing than others.
p.s., I just learned that Get Fuzzy has pretty much been in reruns for the last four years, with only these occasional new Sunday strips being produced as it withers in syndication. Odd.
December 2, 2019
The book is as fun as any Get Fuzzy collection, but I oddly found myself missing the shorter daily strips. Love the longer, full color Sunday strips, and if that's all Darby Conley wants to do anymore, more power to him! But I was surprised that I missed having the "smaller bites" as well as I read through this collection.
June 5, 2018
One of the few books I've read in 2018 in physical form. Based both on how much easier it is to read comic strip collections in physical (as opposed to digital) form, and the need to buy something from Amazon and needing 'something extra' to get to $25 and free shipping. Yes, I got this book because my old phone broke and I needed to buy phone protection stuff for new phone (cheaper via Amazon than from phone company).
What's to say about a comic strip collection? There was humor - some good, some bad, some that seemed like the characters had switched to a language I didn't read . . .; the cat, Bucky, continued to terrorize, think himself smarter than he really is, while the dog, Satchel (heh, I do not actually recall name of dog), continued being kind of dim but with moments of smarter than expect. The human was rarely in this collection oddly enough. And . . . um . . . right.
Rating: 3.3
June 4 2018
What's to say about a comic strip collection? There was humor - some good, some bad, some that seemed like the characters had switched to a language I didn't read . . .; the cat, Bucky, continued to terrorize, think himself smarter than he really is, while the dog, Satchel (heh, I do not actually recall name of dog), continued being kind of dim but with moments of smarter than expect. The human was rarely in this collection oddly enough. And . . . um . . . right.
Rating: 3.3
June 4 2018
January 22, 2020
I never get tired of Get Fussy! If you had a long day, nothing went right Bucky and Satchel are your guys. Just open a get fuzzy book and you’ll be laughing in no time. There are laughs on every page. And they are laugh out loud laughs. Warning: be careful reading in public, people will strange looks when you burst into laughter in a waiting room. I highly recommend any and all of the Get Fuzzy books.
August 15, 2024
Get Fuzzy kept chugging along, long after I stopped reading it. This is the last published collection, and Conley was mostly back to his old form
October 5, 2024
I had not read Get Fuzzy before and it's actually a lot of fun. I don't love the artwork, but I find the jokes to be good and its a funny, breezy read.
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