Darby Conley
Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip Get Fuzzy.
Biography
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts on June 15, 1970,[1] and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Darby Conley's 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/Art History degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts, continuing to improve his Far Side clones for the Amherst Student, graduating in 1994. While a student in college, he played rugby, explaining the rugby sport references in his comic strip. Conley was also a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes.
As of 2000, he was listed as married to a woman named "Laura" (née Frain[2][3]).[1]
Get Fuzzy
Comics syndicate United Media agreed in 1999 to publish Conley's new strip Get Fuzzy about an anthropomorphic cat, Bucky, and dog, Satchel, living with their single young-male owner, Rob Wilco, which premiered on September 6, 1999 in 75 papers.
The idea for Bucky's character came from a friend's Siamese.[4]
Awards
- 2002, National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Comic Strip.[5]
Controversies
On October 30, 2003, the city of Pittsburgh served as the punch line of a strip about tourism destinations based on smells. Offended residents of the area deluged the author with negative feedback that included death threats.[6][7][8]
A May 13, 2005 strip portrayed Boston-area sports reporter Bob Lobel as a drunk, prompting Lobel to file libel lawsuits against Conley and his syndicate.[9][10]
References
- 1 2 "Darby N Conley"
- ↑ "Darby Conley" on White Pages
- ↑ "CONLEY, DARBY N (Age 45)"
- ↑ Turczyn, Coury (2002). "Let's Get Fuzzy". PopCult Magazine.
- ↑ "Division Awards: Newspaper Strip". National Cartoonists Society. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Dan (November 18, 2003), "Comic strip apology to really isn't: 'Get Fuzzy' creator says Pittsburghers need to take a joke", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ↑ "Pittsburgh Not Laughing At Smelly Joke - Travel News Story". KCRA Sacramento. 2003-11-05. Archived from the original on December 4, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ↑ "Letters to the Business Editor: 11/11/03". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 11, 2003.
- ↑ Voss, Gretchen (July 2005). "Head Games". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ↑ "Lobel Charges Libel". WGBH. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on September 24, 2006.
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