Blueprint for Disaster Get Fuzzy

The adventures of a naive dog, a Siamese with plenty of "cat-titude," and a modern bachelor is the blueprint for the hilarious comic strip Get Fuzzy, named the Best Newspaper Comic Strip of 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society. 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 smart-alecky Siamese Bucky and amiable shar-pei-yellow Lab mix Satchel. Bucky and Satchel get along like, well, like cats and dogs. Like a beleaguered single parent, Rob must constantly thwart Bucky's schemes and protect the unsuspecting Satchel, while 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 anyone who has ever lived in a mixed-species household.Conley, Darby is the author of 'Blueprint for Disaster Get Fuzzy' with ISBN 9780740738081 and ISBN 0740738089.