Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection

Get Fuzzy #4

by Darby Conley

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.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Fiction, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels, Cartoon, Graphic Novels Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy.

Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

While in high school in 1986, he won a student cartooning competition. During his Senior Year at Doyle High School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, Conley was voted 'Most Talented' by his graduating class. He attended Amherst College, where he studied Fine Arts, drew cartoons for the student newspaper, played rugby, and was a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes. (Fellow cartoonist alumni of Amherst include FoxTrot creator Bill Amend and the late John Cullen Murphy of Prince Valiant fame.)

Like Rob Wilco, the human protagonist in Get Fuzzy, Conley is an enthusiastic rugby union fan, playing during college and sustaining several injuries that failed to diminish his passion for the sport.

Before becoming a cartoonist, Conley held a wide array of jobs: elementary school teacher, art director for a science museum, lifeguard, and bicycle repairman. This eclectic collection of professions is reminiscent of those held by Douglas Adams, whom Conley has mentioned as a comedic influence.

Conley, an animal rights activist and vegetarian, lives in Boston.

Reviews

[Debbie Zapata · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another title from the Get Fuzzy library, Blueprint For Disaster showed that Darby Conley could get back into his game after the disappointing volume 3 I read a couple of weeks ago.

From pop-tarts in the VCR to a feud with Fungo next door that lands everyone on the Judge Judy show, Bucky Katt proves once again if there is trouble lurking anywhere, he will find it.

And Rob and Satchel will have to deal with whatever happens next.

This was my favorite so far from my little splurge on Get Fuzzy books.

I have one more to go, though!

[Greta is Erikasbuddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is hilarious! My friend Alicia asked me if I had ever heard of this comic strip and of course I had not. But I'm glad she told me about it.

Bucky is a cat who is loud mouthed, angry, stinks, lives in a closet, has one fang hanging out which is so cute, his arch nemesis is a ferret, and lives with a dog and his person.

Think of Garfield but maybe without his meds (Garfield would have to take meds if he was like Bucky)

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this strip.

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unimportant fun.

[Zombieslayer⚡Alienhunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Does anything say 'weekend' more than the funny pages?
Darby Conley's Get Fuzzy is on of the funniest of the pages, and Blueprint for Disaster is a top-notch collection.
I've probably read this collection four or five times all the way through, it's been in the house since I was eight.
Part of how I learned to read was Sunday comic pages and collections like this one, which also fueled a love of anything sequential art.
I've read plenty of paperback omnibuses like this one, most of them Gary Larson's The Far Side, Bill Waters' Calvin and Hobbs, classics like Charles Schultz's Peanuts and Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley and, most beloved, Matt Groening's Life in Hell, Jim Davis's Garfield and this gem right here.
From the Satchel Pooch's Dogs of the World conference, to Bucky Katt versus Fungo Squiggly on the Judge Judy show, Blueprint for Disaster is one laugh after another.

On a final note, Garfield got a movie. We need a Get Fuzzy one.

[Melissa Lee-Tammeus · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son and I have found a new comic book series to read - we have exhausted Calvin and Hobbes and Foxtrot and even Garfield and Sonic. So, now we are moving on to even more sarcasm with Bucky, the hateful and crazy Siamese and Satchel the shar-pei lab mix along with their exasperated owner, Rob. Too cute and a great way to teach my son about world events like Judge Judy and TIVO (hah!)A great way to bond and share, highly recommend this series for young adults who know all about quirky animals.

[Amber the Human · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my collections contains cartoons from this book, but either it doesn't contain all of them, or I have a bad memory. Either way, I'm glad I grabbed this out of the library. Is it weird that I often sympathize with Bucky? I am a cat person ...

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laughed out loud a few times, so I say it's worth the trip to the library!

[Vanessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great birthday gift from mary. i love that i can add another comic to my daily regimen!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the funniest series of comic strips around. Gotta love the interactions of the pets. Their characterizations are endearing.

[Duane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Darb Conley is a great humorist when it comes to showing the lives of pet owners and the crazy pets they call friends. If you're into laugh out loud humor, you'll love his work and this book!

[Monte · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the funniest books I read. His comic strip won an award in 2002

[LauraW · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is back before his cartoon turned too mean for me.

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were a few that make me laugh, but it's mostly pretty average.


I understand it's a lot funnier if you own both cats and dogs.

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a re-read for me, I picked up the first book of the collected comics years ago and have been a huge fan of the cranky Bucky Katt and sweet Satchel Pooch ever since.

[T-Dub · Rating 3 out of 5]

OPA

[Tom Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like his newer stuff better, but this was still funny. I stopped and showed Molly several of these as I went along.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

love get fuzzy.

[Dan Weiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this strip so much. I laugh, I cry, I wet myself. The pacing is unique in that so many punchlines are in panels other than the last.

[Timothy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars.

[Michael P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun and funny reprint of one of the best comics in American newspapers today.

[Benjamin Plume · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this because my girlfriend loves Get Fuzzy. I say, "meh, but worth a few laughs."

[Alec Maclean · Rating 5 out of 5]

time and time again, it never gets old.

[Askaso · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hay veces que lees tiras cómicas obligado.

Son tiras sobre un hombre, su gato y su perro. No, no es Garfield. El perro es bobalicón y bienintencionado, el humano es un adorno despersonalizado y el gato es cínico y olvidadizo. No es muy cliché, pero tampoco es muy original.

El apartado gráfico es correcto. Son tiras, dibujo rápido y de fórmulas simples. Cuando tiene que dibujar alguna figura humana un poco difícil (niños, por ejemplo) no lo hace muy bien, pero son tiras, no pasa nada.

La narrativa visual es bastante mala. Muchas veces te rompe el chiste la falta de continuidad visual de la misma tira. Los guiones tampoco son muy allá, los chistes son flojos cuando son buenos e inexistentes cuando son malos.

Me imagino que tiene su público y que habrá quién le encuentre la gracia. Se lee fácil, son tiras, las tiras siempre se leen fácil. Pero me han dado ganas de saltarme las páginas de 20 en 20.

[Karen GoatKeeper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bucky Katt is cantankerous, opinionated and determined. The interplay between his owner Rob, housemate Satchel, a dog, and Bucky is sometimes very funny, often creates a "you've got to be kidding" reaction.
It is a fast book or slow, if you want to savor the cartoon strips, to read. The sketches are good. Bucky Katt is too over the top to be believed even when the strip touches on important issues.

[timmyfailure15™ · Rating 5 out of 5]

good book

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[Carly Kirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of laugh out loud moments. Glad to add this book to my collection.

[Stephen Chase · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOL, the funniest funnies on an Audiobook on CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this comic series! Lots of humor, and pretty much how you expect a dog and cat to act😂🤣😻

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this series for years and haven't checked it out in a long time. This collection put a smile on my face. An easy, wonderful read.