Get Fuzzy

About Get Fuzzy

Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. The strip features the adventures of Boston advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets: dog Satchel Pooch and cat Bucky Katt. Get Fuzzy has been published by United Media Syndicate since September 1999. It appears in over 200 newspapers worldwide.

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 pooch/mutt. 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.

A twisted Siamese cat (Conley felt that tabbies were overrepresented in cartoons), Bucky Katt is selfish, cynical, and lazy. His ears are nearly always drawn laid back flat on his head in a defiant, aggressive and unfriendly manner. He is like a cat in that he does not understand everything that humans do. This, along with being unfriendly, is a bad combination. At one time his I.Q. was estimated to be 1 after taking a magazine intelligence test[citation needed], and another time he thought that "E. coli" contamination had something to do with the collie breed of dogs. According to Rob's friend, Joe Doman, Bucky is named after legendary Negro League baseball player Buck O'Neil (a teammate of Satchel Paige in the 1930s and 1940s). However, Rob has mentioned that Bucky was given his name in reference to his fang (which Bucky has referred to as his "pointy"), which protrudes from his mouth much like a buck tooth. Bucky thinks it is because he is such a young buck. In several strips Bucky goes by his nickname "Shirley". Bucky has only one upper cuspid, having knocked out the other one in a fight. Rather than having his own room, as his "roommate" Satchel Pooch does, Bucky lives in a dresser located in the hall closet of Rob Wilco's apartment, because he refuses to share a room with Satchel.