Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection [Paperback]

Darby Conley (Author)

Book Description

Series: Get Fuzzy Collection | Publication Date: October 1, 2003

You have to wonder what kind of pets cartoonist Darby Conley had as a child. If they were anything like Bucky Katt and Satchel Pooch. . . well, life in the Conley house must have been interesting to say the least. The wacky triumvirate of Bucky, Satchel, and Rob are back in the fourth Get Fuzzy collection, Blueprint for Disaster, and ?interesting? doesn?t begin to describe their antics. Rob Wilco is the mild-mannered ad executive caretaker of Bucky and Satchel. Satchel is a sweet and naive shar-pei-yellow-Lab cross, while Bucky is a Siamese with ?cat-titude? to spare. Bucky and Satchel get along like, well, like cats and dogs. Like a beleaguered parent, Rob constantly must thwart Bucky?s schemes and protect the unsuspecting Satchel. His pets? mischief continually disrupts his attempts to meet women. You try explaining to your date why your cat thinks he?s a gangsta rapper and your dog is filming his ?crib? for MTV. Would anyone live with humans who behaved like this?Bitingly funny with a wry sense of the absurdity of life with pets, Get Fuzzy appeals to everyone who has ever lived in a mixed-species household. Blueprint for Disaster is sure to be yet another Get Fuzzy best-seller.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Darby Conley is an illustrator and former elementary school teacher who spent most of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. While earning a fine arts degree at Amherst he drew cartoons for the daily newspaper, the Amherst Student. He first sketched the characters Bucky, Satchel, and Rob in 1996 and the strip was syndicated in 1999. He has had a love of dogs all his life and is a great animal watcher. He currently lives in Massachusetts with his cat.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740738089
• ISBN-13: 978-0740738081
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #714,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Get Fuzzy first appeared in newspapers in 1999. Darby Conley lives in Boston with four cats and three boxes of Band-Aids.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost a Novel, November 3, 2003

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

Bucky, the no-redeeming-qualities cat, and Satchel, the loveable-but-clueless dog, are back. In the Get Fuzzy world, cats and dogs can talk and humans have no problem with it. Bucky and Satchel are Rob's two pets and the three of them make a hilarious household. The almost continuous story arc makes this read more like a novel than a collection of individual strips.

In this volume you will see such things as:
The International Conference of Dogs
The Cat Conference to take over the world

Bucky take on the ferret next door
Bucky loose his fang
Bucky sue the ferret on Judge Judy

If you liked the other Get Fuzzy collections, you will love this one. If you are new, be prepared for animals that are not as cuddly as those in other strips.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Satchel fix, October 21, 2003

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L. Carroll "alrescate" (Strafford, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

Get Fuzzy is the funniest cartoon currently in print and this collection is full of smiles. The only downpoint to this collection is the fact that unlike the first three; this one has no color strips. The Sunday strips are included but they are in black and white. Since they are slightly darker than the daily strips you loose some of the detail and they are a bit harder to see. I really wish the publisher had put the Sunday strips in color but other than that this collection is great! (And includes some classics such as Bucky losing his fang to Fungo the Ferret and Bucky's appearance on Judge Judy.)

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bucky Goes To Small Claims Court!, November 9, 2003

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

I have liked 'Get Fuzzy' since it's inception, and this is the best of the books to date. Darby Conley certainly knows the difference between cats and dogs and why each are lovable in their own way (yes, even uni-fanged Siamese cats)!

Of particular note is the Judge Judy series wherein Bucky sues Fungo the Ferret for damages after Bucky loses his fang while trying to snare Fungo. Be sure to check out the Cat and Dog conferences, too!

If you like 'Get Fuzzy' or just love animals, you will love this book!