The Potpourrific Great Big Grab Bag of Get Fuzzy: A Get Fuzzy Treasury (Volume 12)

POTPOURRIFIC puts together the previously-released "Collections" I'M READY FOR MY MOVIE CONTRACT and TAKE OUR CAT, PLEASE. The Get Fuzzy Treasuries are larger-format, 8 1/2" x 11" books; the daily strips are printed in the same nice readable size as in the Collections, the Sunday strips are in color rather than in black and white, and--mostly--printed a bit larger than they were in the Collections. Altogether this contains about a year and a half of the strip (until I actually counted, I had just assumed the Collections were a year's worth and thus the Treasuries two years; not so).Get Fuzzy follows three apartment-mates: Bucky Katt is a pint-sized megalomaniac egotist with a never-ending stream of world-domination and get-rich-quick schemes. Satchel Pooch is sweet-natured and enthusiastic, if a little dim. Okay, sometimes a lot dim. Rob Wilco is nominally head of the household, though his authority is sometimes undermined by distraction, or stunned disbelief, or a certain degree of nerdiness.Some of this volume's episodes: Rob does unequal battle with Dull Computers' customer service line; Bucky adds beavers to his enemies list; Satchel is shocked to discover his piggy bank smashed with a hammer (Bucky suggests it was suicide); Rob's back goes out and Bucky seizes control (and takes the opportunity to loot all the electronics); Bucky unwisely challenges Fungo the Ferret to the "brawl in the hall"; Rob's action-figure collection gets converted to a Bucky-Katt-figure collection; the guys vacation in Maine; and the "Darby Conley hurt his drawing arm" interlude features "rejected storylines" and alternative job possibilities for Satchel and Bucky. Chubby Huggs makes a couple of appearances, as does Rob's dad, and for the first time we meet Rob's brother.In an era when a good many comic strip creators are, shall we say, seriously unambitious as far as their art goes, Get Fuzzy--even though it takes place mostly inside an apartment--is a pleasure visually. Conley's art is detailed and distinctive, he varies viewpoints and 'camera angles', and his use of shading patterns gives the dailies texture and depth. Best of all, he draws his characters with a variety and subtlety of attitudes and expressions that could (and sometimes do) tell the story even without dialogue. Get this book and...Get Fuzzy.

Get Fuzzy remains my favorite strip of all time. Bucky Katt is an insane genius. Well, he's insane anyway. And brilliantly funny.

My wife loved it.

As cat owners, we can relate to Rob - we love our little psychopaths. The midnight freak outs, the biting for no discernible reason, the complete self-absorption. One of our cats is a Bucky, but one is a Satchel too - sweet, trusting, happy, not quite bright. A great cartoon for kids and adults, though I spend a lot of time explaining the social and political contexts to my 10 year old on some of these!

My 6 year child loves this book so much!!!!

Another volume in my collection of Conley, I look forward to reading it.

Get Fuzzy is always great, but quite a few black and white strips were, uh, fuzzy in the Kindle version. That is why I'm giving it a three star rating otherwise it would be five stars.

I just learned of this comic strip and like it very much. It's a delight to run across new, fun stuff at age 66 - reminds me there's a lot still out there for me to discover. I'll be getting more collections of this strip, that's for sure!

I stumbled on these cartoons via a chance purchase of 'Treasure of the lost litter box' in a bookshop sale and didn't stop laughing all the way to the end of it. Bucky Katt, Satchel Pooch and Rob Wilco (the human) make for a hilarious triumvirate though it is Bucky Katt who all too often steals the show either in triumph or utter ignominy. he veers between the two with dizzying regularity. You have to be careful in buying all of these compendiums because of a few repeated cartoons but I would recommend 'The Potpourrific' (above) or 'Treasury of the Lost Litter box' as great starting points. This Xmas, three of my cat loving and cat owning friends received these cartoon compendiums in their stockings. If they read that gift as a biographical statement maybe I'm in trouble. I suspect though that they'll appreciate the unrelenting good humour of the anarchic, dog-hating/ dog manipulating , pseudo political ramblings of Bucky. Has this ever made it onto a tv cartoon series I wonder...............

funny, perceptive. a joy to read.