Darby Conley
Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip Get Fuzzy.
Biography
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts on June 15, 1970,[1] and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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, explaining the rugby sport references in his comic strip. Conley was also a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes.
As of 2000, he was listed as married to a woman named "Laura" (née Frain[2][3]).[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 in 75 papers.[citation needed]
The idea for Bucky's character came from a friend's Siamese.[4]
Awards
- 2002, National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Comic Strip.[5]
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.[6][7][8]
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.[9][10]
References
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