Take Our Cat, Please!

Graphic Novel title: Take Our Cat, Please!
A Get Fuzzy collection
Author and artist: Darby Conley:
Reprinting newspaper strips of: Get Fuzzy
Copyright@2008
ISBN- 13: 978-0-7407-7095-1
United Features Syndicate, Inc.
Collection published through Andrew McMeel Universal Company Publishing Company, 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Reviewed by: Allen Klingelhoets
Jazma Online

From back cover:

Satchel, the Shar-pei-Lab mix in the Get Fuzzy trio who actually believes what TV commercials say, and his owner-housemate Rob Wilco, a single somewhat befuddled, Red Sox-obsessed ad exec, gamely endure the scourge of their daily existence, Bucky Katt. Whether baiting the ferret down the hall for battle, gorging on rubber bands (and suffering the ensuing gastric consequences), or stealing Satchel’s precious watch. Bucky is the constant tester of the patience and endurance of his hapless mates.

Darby Conley first sketched the characters Bucky, Satchel and Rob in 1996, and the strip has been syndicated since 1999. Get Fuzzy now appears in more than 650 newspapers internationally and was named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society. Darby lives in the Boston area.

Allen thoughts:

I liked reading Take Our Cat, Please so much that I got two more collections to read from library. I also read “Blueprint for Disaster” and also “The Get Fuzzy Expeerience are you bucksperienced?” I do not really think all age type of comic strip. The cat Bucky is sometimes rather crude in humor. The dog Satchel is wrote rather in not so smart animal version. I did like though that both cat and dog could talk to Rob. I felt sorry for Rob. He sometimes showed pictures of how wonderful Bucky was as a kitten. He did not turn into lovable cat when grown up. Bucky Katt did not even like to be petted. He would break Rob’s lamps and other personal items when mad. I appreciated that story was told in present time line and not some futuristic or middle earth Tolkien setting. I had fun with stories where Bucky Katt tried to find way to eliminate ferret that lived in next door apartment. Bucky lost tooth when attempting to snare ferret. Nothing ever happened in story in way planned by Bucky. Bucky was rushed into surgery and afterwards had to wear cone to keep from scratching face. Bucky even brought the case to court with “Judge Judy.” I had some laughs with series. I think more of a juvenile teen to adult story. The comic strips did not always relate to0 each other. The overall story though meshed together fairly well. Characters would sometimes be in rather long stories. Other times short daily tidbits of just seeing characters. The ferret storyline went over course of several years. It was clear that Bucky Katt hated the idea of ferret living next door to him. The cost of the books were 10.99 each. They are shown in black and white format with about two to three panels per strip. The book "Take Our Cat, Please!" is illustrated and 128 pages long. The stories in newspaper strip in book are wrote in English.

Get Fuzzy can be viewed on the internet at:

www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy


Allen Klingelhoets