Darby Conley

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

[2] Conley cited the Tintin books as the strongest visual inspiration for his work.

[3] 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.

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.