Darby Conley
Overview
 
Darby Conley is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

 best known for the popular comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Get Fuzzy
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 Feature Syndicate since September...

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Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 17,668. Although a small town, Concord is noted for its leading roles in American history and literature.-History:...

 in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

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His 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 and Art History degree from Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

 in Massachusetts, continuing to improve his Far Side
Far side
The Far Side is a comic strip by Gary LarsonFar Side may also refer to:*Far Side , a 2010 album by Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory*Farside , an alternative rock band*The Pharcyde, an alternative hip hop act...

clones for the Amherst Student, graduating in 1994.
Quotations

There are two kinds of cartoonists in the world today-those who started out by ripping off The Far Side|The Far Side, and those who won't admit that they've ever ripped off The Far Side, probably because they're still doing it.

page V (preface), groovitude

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

strip from 15 Aug 2007

ahhhh... satchel, my boy, there's nothin' like a tuna smoothie on a hot summer day...

groovitude, page 163

A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

Strip from November 18, 2006

Rob, you are so wrong, philosophers weep at the sound of your voice.

Sunday Strip circa 2003

thank you, o can opener, for this can which you are about to open. you are truly a beautiful can opener, and though I am not worthy of you, I love you.

groovitude, page 217

Is that drooling problem you have due to genetic inbreeding, or are you just really attracted to me?

Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 96

You may think you're not pretty enough for me, but I bet I'm pretty enough for the both of us.

Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 97

it is true that you may fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time... dogs, on the other hand, with them all you need to do is flick your wrist and they run off looking for some stupid tennis ball. (famous cat quotes)

Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 114

friends... romans... countrymen... leave me alone. (famous cat quotes)

Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 114

 
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