NO CODE: sock fuzz on the carpet, artistically arranged (at least as seen by my cat) hairballs on the carpet, a stack of unread books on the carpet, getting called on the carpet, beating the carpet and Family Circus.
Can there be any comic strip more insipid and, at the same time, so poorly drawn, as the Family Circus. The only thing I find appropriate (and not at all amusing) is that they have a dog named "Barfy". Even less funny is when the "artist" goes on vavation and leaves "the kids" to draw the panel. Now either Bill Keane continues to draw it or he has an unfortunate child who has never grown beyond the age of four. And I know that happens in some families, but they don't get SYNDICATED!!
Family Circus gives "cute" a bad name. But I'm grateful that it's only a single panel.
COMFORT CARE: letters from friends, fried chicken in the ER at one in the morning, driving my daughter's Tracker on the Interstate with the top open at 3 in the morning and Get Fuzzy
I've mentioned Get Fuzzy before, but this week is the main attraction to the lead-in of the last few weeks: Bucky finally gets on the Judge Judy show. An explanation. Bucky is a one-tooth cat who spends most of his time trying to scam from his owner, Rob Wilco or Satchel the dog. Bucky is a low-rent, would-be scammer who tried to set a snare for the ferret next door and ended up caught himself, pulling out his lone fang in the process. The fang was replaced, but his sense of honor was not and Bucky made another plan. He got a spot on The Judge Judy show to sue the ferret, he got a shirt and tie to look cool and he conned poor Satchel into coming along. Satchel's main concern is that he doesn't pee on the floor on national TV. He is counting on Rob for help (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20020809.html)
Get Fuzzy is funny in a gently twisted kind of way and artist, Darby Conley needs no apostrophes around his job title. In his world it's seems perfectly natural that cats and dogs and humans can understand each other while mostly sticking to their traditional if (in Buckey's case) somewhat strange roles. There is more art and expression in Conley's drawing that in a year's worth of The Born Loser or the utterly two-dimensional Sally (Yechh) Forth.
Call your newspaper and demand that they Get Fuzzy! Tell them you want to Get Fuzzy yourself. They'll be amused. I promise. Really!
dwf
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