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Darby Conley

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Artist

The Resume

    (1970- )
    Born in Concord, Massachusetts
    Created the comic strip ‘Get Fuzzy’ (1999)

Why he might be annoying:

    Although ‘Get Fuzzy’ centers on an anthropomorphic cat and dog, he created the strip while living in an apartment that banned pets.
    He said, ‘My editor complains I have too much potty humor.’
    He was sued for libel after a strip implied that Boston-area sports reporter Bob Lobel was drunk while on the air (2005). The suit was settled out of court.
    Around 2011, he began recycling old strips to fill gaps in producing the daily comic. Over the next two years, the daily strip became all repeats.
    As a result, a lot of newspapers stopped running the daily strip. (The editor of the Washington Post’s cartoon page said continuing to print the recycled strips would be like ‘paying a lot of money to watch Friends on HBO.’)

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was voted ‘most talented’ by his high school graduating class.
    Before getting a syndication deal for ‘Get Fuzzy,’ he worked as an elementary school teacher and as art director for a science museum.
    He won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Outstanding Newspaper Comic Strip (2002).
    After he moved out of his apartment into a house with his girlfriend, they adopted a shelter cat (2003).
    Stephen King called ‘Get Fuzzy’ ‘the funniest comic strip on planet Earth.’

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 147 Votes: 54.42% Annoying