Cartoon strips are one of those things that you simply cant get bored of! No matter how old or new they are! They're like the all time classics of humor!
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The strip is TEN years old...in fact, it started in Sept 09, making this a very special month: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Fuzzy Makes it all the more sad that it's starting with a week...or more...of reruns.
deandome, Get Fuzzy has been around for quite a while. His latest book, advertised on this site, are all strips from before this site's earliest archive. Search your local bookstore and find the latest Get Fuzzy book and look at the list of titles of previous books. Then you might get the scope of Get Fuzzy.
Occasionally, Darby will incorporate a Sunday strip into an ongoing daily narative. Seeing as, for most traditional newspapers, Sunday strips have to be prepared weeks in advance, the dailies that follow it would have to be submitted later so that they would run following the incorporated Sunday strip. I don't think this is the case here. Most likely the week's worth of dailies weren't ready on time. Darby even did a story line about such an event. Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) was the master at Sunday inclusions into daily naratives.
Fuzzy is hardly 'long running'. Take a look at the 100 or so strips offered here..how many of them disappear for a week 4-10 times a year & leave the paper holding the bag & the readers rehashing old strips? Have you ever seen Scott Adams take a break on Dilbert? NO Chares Schulz? NO (over 40 years!!) The only 'vacationers' in the comics world are super-heavyweights like Garry Trudeau & Cathy G. Heck, even Bob Keane gets his kids to do Family Circus when he takes a break (groan) And they clearly PLAN on their absences, where Fuzzy's numerous "New strips were not available at press time, so...." situations clearly indicate they are unplanned. The only thing I'm angry about is that Darby is jeopardizing my ability to enjoy his strip in the future, because his CUSTOMERS (newspapers, not us!) are not getting what they were promised, ergo the contract can & probably should be terminated.
This has nothing to do w/comics.com...these strips are first & foremost PRINTED...THAT is where he makes his money. This is just a convenience, and if papers drop a strip, they'll disappear altogether, including here. If you can't come up with & execute a comic strip EVERY DAY, you have no business being/pretending to be a daily comic writer who's syndicated in national newspapers. EVERY other comic writer, save for a small handful of longtime veterans, plays by these rules, and if Darby doesn't, he'll soon find himself being dropped by major & minor newspapers across the nation. Charles Schulz didn't miss a strip in over 40 years, for chrizzakes. If it's too much, and if you can make a living at it, cut back to Sundays only, like Bill Amend did w/Foxtrot. Darby's been pulling these absences for years; if it's due to health issues, I'd think the papers would know that and he'd probby even make it public so we'd cut him some slack. I don't think...or hope... that's the case. I'm not breaking badly on him to be mean, or even just to complain about reruns. It just seems clear to me, now that the Trib is running a replacement strip instead of reruns, there's a very real danger that Fuzzy won't be in any Chicago newspapers. And if he loses enough others, the strip will die altogether
This has nothing to do w/comics.com...these strips are first & foremost PRINTED...THAT is where he makes his money. This is just a convenience, and if papers drop a strip, they'll disappear altogether, including here. If you can't come up with & execute a comic strip EVERY DAY, you have no business being/pretending to be a daily comic writer who's syndicated in national newspapers. EVERY other comic writer, save for a small handful of longtime veterans, plays by these rules, and if Darby doesn't, he'll soon find himself being dropped by major & minor newspapers across the nation. Charles Schulz didn't miss a strip in over 40 years, for chrizzakes. If it's too much, and if you can make a living at it, cut back to Sundays only, like Bill Amend did w/Foxtrot. Darby's been pulling these absences for years; if it's due to health issues, I'd think the papers would know that and he'd probby even make it public so we'd cut him some slack. I don't think...or hope... that's the case. I'm not breaking badly on him to be mean, or even just to complain about reruns. It just seems clear to me, now that the Trib is running a replacement strip instead of reruns, there's a very real danger
