I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection [Paperback]

Darby Conley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Satchel, the ever-hapless Shar-pei-Lab mix in the Get Fuzzy gang, is the star of I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection, inspired by his hero, Wonder Mutt. Rounding out this not-so-warm-and-fuzzy cast is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad exec, and Bucky Katt, a highly strung, bucktoothed, laid-back-eared Siamese with an eye for mischief, an obsession with monkey pizza, and a neurotic fear of beavers. Together they form one crazy troupe for fun and mayhem.Three books, Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, Blueprint for Disaster, and Say Cheesy, have been New York Times best-sellers.

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About the Author

Darby Conley first sketched the characters Bucky, Satchel, and Rob in 1996, and the strip has been syndicated since 1999. He currently lives in Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740769227
• ISBN-13: 978-0740769221
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,961 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

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, September 25, 2007

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Bryan L. White (Duncanville, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

I love Get Fuzzy and was excited to see this book finally released, but as the previous reviewer notes,this book contains at least two pages of strips from an earlier collection and one strip is repeated. This has been a wonderful strip and I hope that the flaws in this book are the fault of the publisher and editors. I realize that it takes terrific effort to continually produce quality humor-especially on a schedule. That said, consumers have a right to expect to receive their money's worth. Non fanatical Fuzzy fans might do as well to skip this volume and wait for the next big collection.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Get Fuzzy is the best, but this book is flawed., September 23, 2007

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Emma - See all my reviews

This review is from: I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

I LOVE Get Fuzzy and I waited anxiously for this book. (It was delayed past the release date for some reason, but less so than the last one...)

There are tons of great strips in here, but some of these were published in previous books (and this is not a collection) and at least one strip is in this book twice!

This is a disappointing treatment for such a great comic strip.

(But Darby Conley's work is still great, so don't miss out on it because of these flaws...)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Sweet Onion Chutney, What Have I Done?!", December 30, 2007

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This review is from: I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Paperback)

While there are a couple of minor editing issues in this book, as a collective whole it is still first rate. Darby Conley is a talented cartoonist, and manages to capture so much humor and subtlety in his strip that it has become my clear favorite of all current cartoons.

This volume contains several plotlines, my favorite of which (starting on page 40) revolves around Bucky's battle for dominance with Fungo, the neighboring ferret. Bucky turns Rob's Star Wars action figures into "Bucky Katt Action Figures." Fungo buys all of them, and proceeds to use them as voodoo dolls against Bucky. One result is Bucky "being a little gurgly in the Meow Mix repository," as well as other ill effects. When Bucky figures out what's going on, he blurts out "Sweet onion chutney, what have I done?!" I love these expressions that Conley endows Bucky and Satchel with, and find that they go a long way to making the interactions of the characters funny, while at the same time highlighting the basic humanity of the strip, despite the fact that two of the leading characters are anthropomorphized animals.

I recommend "I'm Ready For My Movie Contract" without any reservations.