Wha' Hoppen? - a Get Fuzzy update

[D.D.Degg]

Breaking Cat News replaced Get Fuzzy in The Houston Chronicle.
Chronicle feature writer Alyson Ward explains:

When the Chronicle stopped publishing "Get Fuzzy"
at the end of March, the emails started almost immediately:

"What happened to Get Fuzzy?"

The strip, by Darby Conley, launched in 1999 and was a
success from the start. "Get Fuzzy" won the National
Cartoonists Society Award in 2002, and horror master
Stephen King once called it "the funniest comic strip
on planet Earth."

But Conley stopped producing a daily strip nearly four years ago;
the "Get Fuzzy" daily strip has been in reruns since late 2013.

Occasionally, Conley does still produce a new strip for a Sunday,
but he seems to be retired from the daily strip business. There's
no official announcement, but "we have no indication that Darby
will return to the dailies anytime soon," said Ron O'Neal, a
manager at Conley's syndicate, Andrews McMeel.

Several newspapers dropped "Fuzzy" soon after it lapsed into
reruns, including the Washington Post and the Seattle Times.
Many more have stopped running the strip since then, O'Neal
said, although hundreds of newspapers still carry "Fuzzy."
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/What-happened-to-the-Get-Fuzzy-comic-strip-11057644.php

I liked the "Occasionally, Conley does still produce
a new strip for a Sunday" bit.

D.D.Deggt

[D Heine]

The New York Daily News also dropped Get Fuzzy in October 2013 to replace it with WuMo.

And in 2010 the Chicago Tribune stopped carrying Get Fuzzy.

What is taking so long for Get Fuzzy to announce it's real cancellation both daily and Sunday if it is up to Darby Conley, or maybe Darby Conley is MIA to talk about this (Think of a recent podcast series about the whereabouts of 1980's-1990's-2000's health/fitness superstar Richard Simmons).

[Cryptoengineer]

D Heine <Darry...@aol.com> wrote in
news:4de58ff3-4b21-4f07...@googlegroups.com:

This seems to be a bit of obsession with some people here. Why not
just ask him? i've found only two possible addresses, one in Carisle,
MA, the other in Brookline. I think the Carlisle address is current. Its
trivial to get the street address and phone number.

I'm not going to go into the details, but it looks like there was a
death in his family household in early 2013. Perhaps this is related
to his going on hiatus.

pt

[Jimmy Delach]

While this is a different Get Fuzzy thread, I'll just add on to here:

Tomorrow's Sunday strip (4/9) is a repeat from 2011.

Surprised Darby chose this Sunday for a repeat rather than the following Sunday (Easter Sunday).

Anyway, this is the fourth "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip to be a repeat in 2017.

[D Heine]

At least Garry Trudeau has no problems unlike Darby Conley and his Get Fuzzy situation ever since Doonesbury went into classic daily rerun mode/first run Sunday mode starting in March 2014. But both Get Fuzzy and Doonesbury in that way have no ends in sight for now despite droppings and cut backs from the newspapers still carrying it.

[Jimmy Delach]

And the month of April ends with another Sunday (4/30) "Get Fuzzy" repeat from 2011. It's now the fifth time this year a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran.

[Jimmy Delach]

This Sunday's scheduled "Get Fuzzy" strip on Memorial Day Weekend (5/28) is yet another repeat from 2011. It is the sixth time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 1:47:08 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> This Sunday's scheduled "Get Fuzzy" strip on Memorial Day Weekend (5/28) is yet another repeat from 2011. It is the sixth time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran.

So now Darby Conley, despite no plans to end Get Fuzzy for good soon, puts Sunday reruns once a month mostly at the end of each month?

[Jimmy Delach]

This Sunday's upcoming "Get Fuzzy" strip (6/11) is yet another repeat from 2011. That makes it the seventh time this year a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has been rerun.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 12:21:26 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> This Sunday's upcoming "Get Fuzzy" strip (6/11) is yet another repeat from 2011. That makes it the seventh time this year a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has been rerun.

I hope Mr. Conley is now putting Get Fuzzy Sundays new and rerun in alternate weeks even when he still hasn't decided when to end the strip for good.

[D.D.Degg]

D Heine wrote:
> I hope Mr. Conley is now putting Get Fuzzy Sundays
> new and rerun in alternate weeks even when he still
> hasn't decided when to end the strip for good.

Just in time for Christmas is a NEW Get Fuzzy collection of strips
http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/catalog/detail?sku=9781449487102

The title and cover adapted from a Sunday strip from last year
http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2016/07/17

At about 40 Sunday strips a year it will be nearly three years
before there are enough strips to make a new book again.

By the way, let's wish Darby Conley a Happy Birthday;
born, if I have this right, June 15, 1970.

D.D.Degg

[D Heine]

Or maybe not if Darby decides to end the Get Fuzzy strip for good both daily rerun mode and mostly Sunday first run mode before 2017 is over...

[Jimmy Delach]

I apologize in advance if I get Daryl griping about "Get Fuzzy" again but Tomorrow's strip is yet another repeat from 2011.

That makes it the eighth time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran (at least Sunday "Doonesbury" strips have been rerun-free in almost three years).

[D Heine]

On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 12:48:06 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> I apologize in advance if I get Daryl griping about "Get Fuzzy" again but Tomorrow's strip is yet another repeat from 2011.
>
> That makes it the eighth time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran (at least Sunday "Doonesbury" strips have been rerun-free in almost three years).

We know Chuckle Bros. and Tina's Groove met their end this July 1-2, 2017 weekend, but I am still hoping for Get Fuzzy to end in the next few months (maybe the next newspaper strip to end in 2017?) or before 2017 is over.

[Joe Morris]

All the papers must fill the void with the Tinkersons!
http://tinkersons.com/comics/july-2-2017/


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jol...@gmail.com http://atlhistory.com

[Jimmy Delach]

Once again, this Sunday's upcoming "Get Fuzzy" strip is another repeat from 2011.

This is the second time in three weeks a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran and the ninth time overall in 2017 that a Sunday strip has rerun (right now I'm setting the over/under on 2017 Sunday repeats to 16).

[D Heine]

On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 3:14:41 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Once again, this Sunday's upcoming "Get Fuzzy" strip is another repeat from 2011.
>
> This is the second time in three weeks a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran and the ninth time overall in 2017 that a Sunday strip has rerun (right now I'm setting the over/under on 2017 Sunday repeats to 16).

Your guess could be less if Darby Conley decides to end Get Fuzzy for good before 2017 ends.

[Jimmy Delach]

I need help here.

It's after 7PM Eastern time on Saturday and Stars & Stripes still has last Sunday's comics section posted.

Anybody reading this in Canada please let me know if Tomorrow's "Get Fuzzy" strip is either new or yet another repeat please?

[Jimmy Delach]

Just checked the Tampa Bay Times and the 7/23 edition of "Get Fuzzy" is indeed new.

[Jimmy Delach]

Stars & Stripes has their Sunday Comics section up early and for the third time in five weeks (!!!!!) the Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is a repeat from 2011.

It's now the 10th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran.

[D Heine]

On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 6:09:44 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Stars & Stripes has their Sunday Comics section up early and for the third time in five weeks (!!!!!) the Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is a repeat from 2011.
>
> It's now the 10th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran.

I wish Get Fuzzy was on its last legs. Will Darby Conley announce its end soon before Summer 2017 is over? Maybe before 2017 ends?

[D.D.Degg]

D Heine wrote:
> I wish Get Fuzzy was on its last legs.
> Will Darby Conley announce its end soon
> before Summer 2017 is over?
> Maybe before 2017 ends?

If that happens, at least we'll still be able
to get our daily dose of Get Fuzzy in 2018.
http://www.calendars.com/Get-Fuzzy-Desk-Calendar/prod201500002119/

D.D.Degg

[Cryptoengineer]

D Heine <Darry...@aol.com> wrote in

news:5db43c92-6022-4b58...@googlegroups.com:

I think you've rerun this post as many times as Conley's rerun dailies.

pt

[Jimmy Delach]

At least Daryl's Chicago Tribune stopped running "Get Fuzzy" in 2010 (well before Conley's rerun streak became a thing).

My newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, carries "Get Fuzzy" both Daily and Sunday. They also still carry "Peanuts", "For Better Or For Worse" and Daily "Doonesbury" repeats but "Get Fuzzy" is clearly the one among the four I wish I can do without (yes, I'd rather have "Doonesbury" over "Get Fuzzy").

[Jimmy Delach]

Once again, Stars & Stripes is up early and once again this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" is another repeat from 2011.

It's the second straight Sunday a "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran as well as the fourth time in six weeks and the 11th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran while the dailies have been in endless reruns for nearly four years.

I'm honestly convinced Darby just doesn't care anymore.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <418aca91-d473-4893...@googlegroups.com>,

He seems to be a pretty private person, or at least I can't recall any
interviews, so it's hard to say. Could be health issues, family issues,
or plain old writer's block.
--
------
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

[D Heine]

He's not MIA currently (Mr. Conley himself), but will Andrews McMeel announce Get Fuzzy's end sometime before 2017 is over? Hope it's not all Sunday reruns besides daily reruns indefinately!

[D Heine]

Also: Does Garry Trudeau still care about Doonesbury even though since March 2014 it has been in daily rerun mode (This week the daily Doonesbury strips were rerunning strips related to the 1989 Tinnamun Square incident) and mostly first run Sunday mode? I also hope Darrin Bell who does Rudy Park and Candorville has taken the Darby Conley/Garry Trudeau route although both of Mr. Bell's daily strips this July 31-August 5, 2017 week were all reruns.

[Jimmy Delach]

> Also: Does Garry Trudeau still care about Doonesbury even though since March 2014 it has been in daily rerun mode (This week the daily Doonesbury strips were rerunning strips related to the 1989 Tinnamun Square incident) and mostly first run Sunday mode? I also hope Darrin Bell who does Rudy Park and Candorville has taken the Darby Conley/Garry Trudeau route although both of Mr. Bell's daily strips this July 31-August 5, 2017 week were all reruns.

Trudeau is pushing 70, Darby is 47 (10 years older than me!). Trudeau still produces new Sunday Doonesbury strips (hasn't had a Sunday rerun in close to three years, a far contrast to "Get Fuzzy"). "Doonesbury" had been around for over 45 years. As far as new daily "Get Fuzzy" strips are concerned, its' lifespan was close to 15 years (although some papers like your Chicago Tribune already got tired of "Get Fuzzy" well before some other papers - looking at you New York Daily News and Washington Post - did). Although polarizing (but honestly you can say that for both strips), "Doonesbury" had a much bigger legacy than "Get Fuzzy" has (AM's two other rerun strips - "Peanuts" and "For Better Or For Worse" - are more endearing to families and/or women and IMO rank higher than "Doonesbury" and especially "Get Fuzzy").

And if the Tampa Tribune were still in existence, they are the most hypocritical in how they manage their comics. They used a flawed readers' poll as an excuse to dump "Peanuts" in 2005 (more than five years into its' rerun phase) and in 2010, they dropped "Better/Worse" (and brought back "Shoe" to replace it on Sundays?!?!?). They dropped the Daily Doonesbury strips just as the Classic phase began (replacing it with "Rhymes With Orange") while continuing to run the new Sunday strips but yet they still carried "Get Fuzzy" which remained with the paper until its' May 2016 extinction. Whereas the Tampa Bay Times, the paper my family has subscribed to for years, remains loyal and still runs all four of the aforementioned rerun strips (I could personally do without "Fuzzy" but I don't want to be too hypocritical).

[Brian Henke]

No one's noticed it today, but today's GF is another 2011 repeat (the third straight Sunday rerun) and the 12th this year.

Cincy...@yahoo.com

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- Name three things that used to be in Cincinnati you can now find in Atlanta

[Ted Goldblatt]

On 8/4/2017 10:40 PM, Jimmy Delach wrote:

> And if the Tampa Tribune were still in existence, they are the most
> hypocritical in how they manage their comics. They used a flawed
> readers' poll as an excuse to dump "Peanuts" in 2005 (more than five
> years into its' rerun phase) and in 2010, they dropped "Better/Worse"
> (and brought back "Shoe" to replace it on Sundays?!?!?). They dropped
> the Daily Doonesbury strips just as the Classic phase began
> (replacing it with "Rhymes With Orange") while continuing to run the
> new Sunday strips but yet they still carried "Get Fuzzy" which
> remained with the paper until its' May 2016 extinction. Whereas the
> Tampa Bay Times, the paper my family has subscribed to for years,
> remains loyal and still runs all four of the aforementioned rerun
> strips (I could personally do without "Fuzzy" but I don't want to be
> too hypocritical).
>

You can call it "loyal vs hypocritical" - I'd call dropping dead strips
(whether a reader poll said so or not) to be a reasonable approach, and
I'd call keeping them forever (again, reader poll or not) lazy.

I see no reason for Peanuts or FBOFW to still be in newspapers - Peanuts
ended over 17 years ago, and FBOFW (a significantly lesser strip IMO) 9
years ago - it's time to let them go and make space for the living.
Anyone who really still wants them can buy the books or read them online.

Many papers /have/ dropped Doonesbury dailies, but the Sundays are all
new, and I see no reason to drop those. Get Fuzzy is an odd case -
mostly reruns with occasional new. I'd think this has been going on
long enough that the syndicate should step in and either require more
new content or declare the strip officially in reruns. However (unlike
Darryl, who apparently has a bug up his butt over it) I don't think it
should be incumbent on (or even expected of) Darby to do so; I think the
syndicate should just require a significant amount of new content if the
strip is to be labeled "current", and should label it "classic"
otherwise - and let the papers decide if they want a "classic" strip.
(I'd personally prefer not, but like I said, I feel that way about
Peanuts, too.)

[Jimmy Delach]

Brian I mentioned it two days ago. You counted Today twice.

[D.D.Degg]

Ted Goldblatt wrote:
> Many papers /have/ dropped Doonesbury dailies,
> but the Sundays are all new,
> and I see no reason to drop those.

While I agree with you the Duluth News Tribune doesn't -
"Doonesbury is moving from the Sunday print
edition comics to our online site"
Followed by their reasoning for making the change:
•Its content often has very adult subject matter
•It is unabashedly slanted and opinionated.
•[It] doesn't have the quality political commentary it used to have.
•Moving Doonesbury to our Opinion section was not an option.

And of course they play the usual Get Out of Jail Free card:
"However, Doonesbury fans will still be able to read that strip online."

Sunday Doonesbury was replaced by Wumo.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/4308164-editors-view-changes-comics-means-doonesbury-out-wumo-moving

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

> While I agree with you the Duluth News Tribune doesn't -
> "Doonesbury is moving from the Sunday print
> edition comics to our online site"
> Followed by their reasoning for making the change:
> •Its content often has very adult subject matter
> •It is unabashedly slanted and opinionated.
> •[It] doesn't have the quality political commentary it used to have.
> •Moving Doonesbury to our Opinion section was not an option.
>
> And of course they play the usual Get Out of Jail Free card:
> "However, Doonesbury fans will still be able to read that strip online."

Now why couldn't the Tampa Tribune think of something like this?

Oh, wait. I forgot. They don't exist anymore.

On a quasi-related topic - and I really hate to veer too off-topic - I've noticed that newspapers.com is beginning to add the Tampa Bay Times archives to their collection (though it's under a hopefully temporary embargo). Makes me wonder if the Tribune's archives (of which I think the Times owned when they bought out the Trib last year) could be included there too. We'll see I suppose.

Back to "Get Fuzzy" already in progress... :)

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Back to "Get Fuzzy" already in progress... :)

As has been mentioned, something happened to Darby Conley;
possibly some tragedy visited him, or maybe he found some
other goal in life - teacher, musician? He used to be both.

It wouldn't be the first time.

Currently Herb and Jamaal creator Stephen Bentley
https://www.creators.com/read/herb-and-jamaal
has found a calling he has chosen over cartooning -
The Rev. Stephen Bentley is a Deacon of the
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist
http://stjohnsstockton.org/staff.html
and has been for years.

Among his Good Deeds is Frankenbikes:
http://www.recordnet.com/news/20160401/churchs-new-ministry-frankenbikes

A casualty of his new Calling is that the
Herb and Jamaal comic strip is on a back burner.

So far in 2017 there have been two weeks of dailies
that have been new strips - April 3 - 8 and April 17 - 22.
Other than those 12 dailies all other strips (afaik)have been reruns.
2016 consisted of more reruns (daily and Sunday) than new strips.
I THINK 2015 had more new than rerun.

But Rev. Bentley found something more important to him than cartooning.

Perhaps Darby Conley has also moved on to another primary concern?

D.D.Degg
http://www.recordnet.com/news/20160401/churchs-new-ministry-frankenbikes

[D Heine]

On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 12:23:08 PM UTC-5, Brian Henke wrote:
> On Friday, August 4, 2017 at 8:10:28 PM UTC-4, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> > Once again, Stars & Stripes is up early and once again this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" is another repeat from 2011.
> >
> > It's the second straight Sunday a "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran as well as the fourth time in six weeks and the 11th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran while the dailies have been in endless reruns for nearly four years.
> >
> > I'm honestly convinced Darby just doesn't care anymore.
>
> No one's noticed it today, but today's GF is another 2011 repeat (the third straight Sunday rerun) and the 12th this year.
>
>
>

> ------
>
> Judge Parker, One Big Happy, comics you can read
>
> - Name three things that used to be in Cincinnati you can now find in Atlanta

Next time look before you leap so you don't post a Get Fuzzy Sunday rerun alert twice the same weekend.

[D Heine]

I thought Frankenbikes was a new webcomic by Mr. Bentley to make him cut back on Herb and Jamall, but it isn't

[Ted Goldblatt]

On 8/6/2017 6:36 PM, D.D.Degg wrote:
> Ted Goldblatt wrote:
>> Many papers /have/ dropped Doonesbury dailies,
>> but the Sundays are all new,
>> and I see no reason to drop those.
>
> While I agree with you the Duluth News Tribune doesn't -
> "Doonesbury is moving from the Sunday print
> edition comics to our online site"
> Followed by their reasoning for making the change:
> •Its content often has very adult subject matter

OK. Of course, that's been the case since 1970. And as the Duluth
editor said after an earlier comics page change where they dropped some
"kids' content" - the comics are (overwhelmingly) read by adults.

> •It is unabashedly slanted and opinionated.

Opinionated - yes. "Slanted" implies the editor is letting his own
political views color things. And Trudeau's basic political leanings
have never changed. I wasn't able to find a comics list for the paper
to see if they carry any other strips with strongly political aspects.

> •[It] doesn't have the quality political commentary it used to have.

A judgement call that seems to reiterate that the editor's views are
involved. I'm not sure that "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" was subtle...

> •Moving Doonesbury to our Opinion section was not an option.
>
> And of course they play the usual Get Out of Jail Free card:
> "However, Doonesbury fans will still be able to read that strip online."

Following that logic, they should drop all their printed strips - it
would save them money.

> Sunday Doonesbury was replaced by Wumo.
> http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/4308164-editors-view-changes-comics-means-doonesbury-out-wumo-moving

His call, but doesn't really seem address the same reader space.

ted

[Jimmy Delach]

It's just after 8PM Eastern Time and Stars & Stripes still has last Sunday's Comics section posted.

If any Canadian readers view this post in the next few hours, can you inform me if the 8/13 Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is new or yet another repeat (which would be an unprecedented third straight Sunday)?

[Jimmy Delach]

All right, just picked up Today's Tampa Bay Times and this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" for 8/13 is actually new for once.

[D Heine]

On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 4:21:20 AM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> All right, just picked up Today's Tampa Bay Times and this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" for 8/13 is actually new for once.

Could the next Get Fuzzy Sunday rerun be by the time the month of September 2017 starts (The time when Mr. Conley announces his Get Fuzzy end fate?)?

[Jimmy Delach]

Seems every week I have to add on here, doesn't it?...

Anyway, Stars & Stripes' comics section is up and the 8/20 Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is yet another 2011 repeat.

The stats:
This marks the fifth time in the last eight weeks a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran.

It's also the 12th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran.

Heck. At this rate, we might hit 25 Sunday repeats this year. :P

[D Heine]

Maybe less than 25, if Darby Conley announces the strip ending for good before 2017 is over.

[Jimmy Delach]

This weekend's Stars & Stripes Sunday Comics section is up.

Once again, this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" (8/27) is another repeat from 2011.

This marks the second straight time a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran, four out of five weeks and sixth out of the last nine.

Overall, 13 Sundays in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran.

This seriously is getting tiresome. :P

[D Heine]

Maybe next weekend could be new and there could be a pattern - or maybe the end of Get Fuzzy may be near before 2017 is over.

[Brian Henke]

If this continues, I sure hope Darby (or UFS/UPS/Andrews McMeel) will finally end and give its space to a newer, more deserving strip (by that, I mean a comic that runs new episodes on a more consistent basis).

Cincy...@yahoo.com

[Jimmy Delach]

We're all hoping for that. If the Tampa Bay Times weren't already running "Peanuts", "For Better Or For Worse" and Daily "Doonesbury" strips (I still can't believe the Tribune dropped all three but held on to "Get Fuzzy" until its' bitter end), I would write to them and ask for it to be replaced. The reason I don't is because I don't want to open up a can of worms concerning the other three strips mentioned.

[Jimmy Delach]

And on the Sunday before Labor Day (9/3), the Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip is ...

new

Of course we had 2011 strips the last two Sundays but on a Holiday Sunday we get a new strip.

[Jimmy Delach]

Now why couldn't the Tampa Tribune think of something like this?
>
> Oh, wait. I forgot. They don't exist anymore.
>
> On a quasi-related topic - and I really hate to veer too off-topic - I've noticed that newspapers.com is beginning to add the Tampa Bay Times archives to their collection (though it's under a hopefully temporary embargo). Makes me wonder if the Tribune's archives (of which I think the Times owned when they bought out the Trib last year) could be included there too. We'll see I suppose.

Since I brought it up here...

newspapers.com has been adding the other Tampa Bay area paper in the Tampa Tribune (as well as its' sister afternoon publication Tampa Times) to the archives. Both papers as of now are under an embargo (never mind neither the Times - which folded in 1982 - or the Tribune - which folded last year - are in existence now).

[Jimmy Delach]

I live in Florida and I have working internet so while Stars & Stripes is up, here's the latest update.

The recent Sunday rerun string for "Get Fuzzy" continues as the 9/10 strip is yet another repeat from 2011.

It's now the 14th time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran and also the seventh time in the last 11 weeks a Sunday strip has reran while the dailies remain in endless reruns.

And while I'm at it, the archives of the Tampa Tribune - which foolishly held on to "Get Fuzzy" until its' bitter end while dropping "Peanuts", "For Better Or For Worse" and daily "Doonesbury" strips well into their respective rerun phases - is now available on newspapers.com (as well as their sister publication Tampa Times).

[D Heine]

When is Mr. Conley going to announce Get Fuzzy's real end? Does Mr. Conley live in Tampa that may get affected by CATAGORY 5 HURRICANE IRMA this weekend?

[D.D.Degg]

D Heine wrote:
> Does Mr. Conley live in Tampa that may get affected
> by CATAGORY 5 HURRICANE IRMA this weekend?

No, Darby lives, as far as I know, in the Boston (Mass) area.

BUT, doesn't Jimmy Delach live in the Tampa area?

Dean Young (Blondie) lives in Clearwater, right next to Tampa.
Dana Summers (Middletons, ed-op) lives northeast around Orlando.
Andy Marlette (ed-op) lives in Pensacola, far west in the panhandle.
Jim Morin (ed-op) of The Miami Herald

A few other cartoonists making Florida home (don't know where):
Alex Saviuk (Spider-Man)
Dick Kulpa (Ghost Story Club, much more)
Rob Smith, Jr. (Grizzwells)
Jeff Parker (Dustin)
Mason Mastroianni (BC, Wiz of Id)
Chan Lowe (ed-op)
Jim Ivey (retired)
Allen Holtz (Stripper's Guide, historian)

No doubt many other cartoonists live in Florida.

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

On Friday, September 8, 2017 at 5:56:35 PM UTC-4, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> I live in Florida and I have working internet so while Stars & Stripes is up, here's the latest update.
>
> The recent Sunday rerun string for "Get Fuzzy" continues as the 9/10 strip is yet another repeat from 2011.
>
> It's now the 14th time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has reran and also the seventh time in the last 11 weeks a Sunday strip has reran while the dailies remain in endless reruns.

You know how bad things are getting where I have to report on whether or not the Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip is a repeat every single week.

And by no surprise, the 9/17 strip is yet another repeat from 2011.

This makes it the eighth time in 12 weeks (nearly 3 months mind you) that a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran (and in the year 2017, that makes it 15 times overall).

I think we'll get at least 25 Sunday repeats (if not more) this year easily. :P

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <0735e0e8-94e5-451f...@googlegroups.com>,

Are the (infrequent) new ones any good?

I kind of stopped following the strip as Bucky got tamed.
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What's not in Columbia anymore..

[D Heine]

Maybe less, if Darby announces the strips end with the next few days or weeks (even before the month of September 2017 is over?)

[Joe Morris]

Not so long ago, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> Are the (infrequent) new ones any good?

> I kind of stopped following the strip as Bucky got tamed.

Guess I'll never know now: as of Monday September 18, 2017 the Atlanta daily paper
has replaced Get Fuzzy with Breaking Cat News

Took long enough!

--
Joe Morris Atlanta history blog
jol...@gmail.com http://atlhistory.com

[Jimmy Delach]

So in Brian Henke's world, "Get Fuzzy" can still be seen in Cincinnati but no longer in Atlanta.

In the meantime per Stars & Stripes, the 9/24 Sunday strip is new this week.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 6:26:55 AM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:48:14 AM UTC-4, jolomo wrote:
> > Not so long ago, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> > > Are the (infrequent) new ones any good?
> >
> > > I kind of stopped following the strip as Bucky got tamed.
> >
> > Guess I'll never know now: as of Monday September 18, 2017 the Atlanta daily paper
> > has replaced Get Fuzzy with Breaking Cat News
> >
> > Took long enough!
> >
> > --
> > Joe Morris Atlanta history blog
> >
>

> So in Brian Henke's world, "Get Fuzzy" can still be seen in Cincinnati but no longer in Atlanta.
>
> In the meantime per Stars & Stripes, the 9/24 Sunday strip is new this week.

Now Atlanta joins Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. as the major cities to pull Get Fuzzy since 2010. Did I miss at least one city?

Next week and the week after could be Get Fuzzy Sunday reruns (is there a pattern forming?) - WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END THE GET FUZZY STRIP ALREADY AFTER 4 YEARS OF DAILY RERUN MODE/FIRST RUN SUNDAY MODE???

[Default User]

On Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 10:26:04 AM UTC-5, D Heine wrote:

> Next week and the week after could be Get Fuzzy Sunday reruns (is there a pattern forming?) - WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END THE GET FUZZY STRIP ALREADY AFTER 4 YEARS OF DAILY RERUN MODE/FIRST RUN SUNDAY MODE???

Presumably the papers still carrying it pay money to the syndicate, some of which finds its way to him.


Brian

[D Heine]

Same for Doonesbury which has been since March 2014 daily rerun mode/mostly first run Sunday mode?

[D.D.Degg]

D Heine wrote:
> > WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END THE GET FUZZY STRIP ALREADY
> > AFTER 4 YEARS OF DAILY RERUN MODE/FIRST RUN SUNDAY MODE???
>

> Same for Doonesbury which has been since March 2014
> daily rerun mode/mostly first run Sunday mode?

And for Peanuts!
Closing in on 18 years of daily and Sunday reruns!!

[Jimmy Delach]

But at least in Doonesbury's case, Garry hasn't scheduled a Sunday repeat in almost three years. Darby's probably at 100 Sunday repeats since (more or less).

[Jimmy Delach]

Tomorrow's (10/8) Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is another repeat from 2011. The first Sunday repeat in three weeks.

It is also the 16th time this year a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 8:47:06 AM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Tomorrow's (10/8) Sunday "Get Fuzzy" is another repeat from 2011. The first Sunday repeat in three weeks.
>
> It is also the 16th time this year a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran.

The last 2 Sundays were new and first run.

I wish Darby Conley announced the strips end soon as he can...

[Jimmy Delach]

Just letting you know right now that Stars & Stripes still has last Sunday's comic section posted online.

I'll be going out during the afternoon so if anybody in Canada can please let me know if the Sunday 10/15 "Get Fuzzy" is either new or a repeat, it would be appreciated.

[Jimmy Delach]

Stars & Stripes comics section for this weekend is up and this Sunday's (10/15) "Get Fuzzy" strip is new.

[Jimmy Delach]

This Sunday's episode of "Get Fuzzy" (10/22) is yet another repeat from 2011.

This now makes it the 17th time a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran while the dailies have been in endless reruns.

[Jimmy Delach]

Correction: This Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" rerun is the 17th time in the year 2017 a Sunday strip has reran.

[Default User]

On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 1:48:28 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> This Sunday's episode of "Get Fuzzy" (10/22) is yet another repeat from 2011.
>
> This now makes it the 17th time a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran while the dailies have been in endless reruns.

I know this isn't alt.usage.english, but that should either be "has rerun" or just "reran".


Brian

[D Heine]

On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 1:48:28 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:

> This Sunday's episode of "Get Fuzzy" (10/22) is yet another repeat from 2011.
>
> This now makes it the 17th time a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has reran while the dailies have been in endless reruns.

It's 2 months left of 2017, why doesn't Darby Conley announce Get Fuzzy's end by now?

[Jimmy Delach]

For the second straight Sunday, the scheduled "Get Fuzzy" strip for 10/29 is yet another repeat from 2011.

This makes it the 18th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has rerun with the last new "Fuzzy" dailies being produced nearly four years ago.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 2:46:38 PM UTC-5, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> For the second straight Sunday, the scheduled "Get Fuzzy" strip for 10/29 is yet another repeat from 2011.
>
> This makes it the 18th time in 2017 a Sunday "Get Fuzzy" strip has rerun with the last new "Fuzzy" dailies being produced nearly four years ago.

As the months of November and December come, Darby should announce the end of Get Fuzzy strip before 2017 is over.

[Cryptoengineer]

D Heine <Darry...@aol.com> wrote in
news:b8e85380-0f24-423c...@googlegroups.com:

Are you willing to replace the lost income that would entail?

pt

[Default User]

On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 6:11:11 PM UTC-5, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> D Heine <Darry...@aol.com> wrote in

> > As the months of November and December come, Darby should announce the
> > end of Get Fuzzy strip before 2017 is over.
>
> Are you willing to replace the lost income that would entail?

It baffles me why this keeps being a thing. Does he thing Conley is reading? Admittedly it's about 30% of the group traffic these days.


Brian

[pete...@gmail.com]

IIRC, D Heine's position is that he considers Get Fuzzy to be effectively a
zombie strip, and thus should be dropped to create a slot for newer, more
active cartoonists to fill.

Laudable as creating such opportunities may be, the fact is that this isn't
what motivates those who make the decisions. Editors want strips that people
want to see - most people (especially those in the demographic that still buy
or subscribe to dead-tree papers) want familiarity. Darby Conley is fond of
eating, which requires money, which he wouldn't get if he folded the strip.

pt

[D.D.Degg]

pt wrote:
> IIRC, D Heine's position is that he considers Get Fuzzy to be effectively a
> zombie strip, and thus should be dropped to create a slot for newer, more
> active cartoonists to fill.

No, if that were the case he would want papers to drop
Peanuts and he loves Peanuts, even rerun Peanuts.
He doesn't seem to have a problem with For Better or For Worse either.

Rerun Peanuts and FBoFW probably take up more real estate
than almost all other reruns strips combined. No problem.
Archie? Tarzan? Sam and Silo? No problem.

He also has something against another new Sunday/rerun daily
strip - Doonesbury (but has never mentioned a political objection).
But new Sunday/rerun daily Popeye has raised no complaint from Darryl.

His protests against only Get Fuzzy and Doonesbury
lead me to believe those two strips run in his local newspaper
and he sees them daily taking up space there.

Of course, as J. D. Baldwin used to say:
If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I
am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
to deny under oath that I ever made it. -T. Lehrer

D.D.Degg

[D Heine]

Actually, Doonesbury first run Sundays run in the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Tribune stop carrying Get Fuzzy in 2010.

[pete...@gmail.com]

OK, so why *do* you obsess in this group over GF continuing to run? Why do you
want it to stop?

pt

[D Heine]

Because Mr. Conley is tired of the strip?

[Default User]

Has he said that? Besides, that doesn't keep him from needing to get the income.


Brian

[D Heine]

That was my sarcasm speculation or something like that.

[pete...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 3:59:39 PM UTC-4, D Heine wrote:
> That was my sarcasm speculation or something like that.

I'm still wondering why you, at least weekly, proclaim that Conley ought to
shut down the strip.

It seems a tad obsessive, and highly repetitive.

pt

[D Heine]

Jimmy D. monitors for Sundays if Get Fuzzy is new or rerun (or maybe when the strip's end is announced if not soon).

[Jimmy Delach]

> Jimmy D. monitors for Sundays if Get Fuzzy is new or rerun (or maybe when the strip's end is announced if not soon).

Speaking of, we're back to new "Get Fuzzy" for this coming Sunday (11/5).

And it was around this time four years ago when Darby last produced new "Get Fuzzy" daily strips (despite the fact that several papers - the New York Daily News and Washington Post among them - already decided to replace "Fuzzy" with the then-new "WuMo" strip).

[D Heine]

Of course, the Chicago Tribune dropped Get Fuzzy in 2010.

Will more papers drop Get Fuzzy if the Wallace strip goes to newspapers starting in Spring 2018?

[Jimmy Delach]

I think it's safe to assume by now that Darby has given up on any new "Get Fuzzy" strips - both Daily and Sunday - and will now officially go the "Peanuts"/"For Better Or For Worse" route in endless reruns (I didn't add "Doonesbury" since only the Dailies are rerun) for all eternity.

The reasoning? Tomorrow's "Get Fuzzy" (11/12) is a repeat from 2005! Previous rerun "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strips this year were from 2011.

With seven Sundays to go in 2017, this is the 19th time a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has rerun.

Let the inevitable Darryl Heine whining commence.

[D Heine]

But there's no official word from Mr. Conley that Get Fuzzy is 100% daily/Sunday rerun mode as of yet - unless its FAKE NEWS.

[Jimmy Delach]

And we're back to new Sunday "Get Fuzzy" for 11/19.

[Brian Henke]

The 11/26 Get Fuzzy is new.

Cincy...@yahoo.com

------

Judge Parker, One Big Happy, comics you can read

- Name three things that used to be in Cincinnati you can now find in Atlanta

[Default User]

On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 10:49:39 PM UTC-6, Brian Henke wrote:
> The 11/26 Get Fuzzy is new.

Links would be handy.

http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2017/11/26


Brian

[Jimmy Delach]

Hello.

Stars & Stripes still has last weekend's Sunday Comics section posted online so if there are any Canadian folks on this forum, can you please confirm whether this Sunday's "Get Fuzzy" (12/3) is new or a repeat.

Somehow, since we had new Sunday strips the last two weeks, I want to say this Sunday will be a repeat but please confirm anyway.

[Jimmy Delach]

Stars & Stripes finally updated their Sunday Comics section and the 12/3 edition of "Get Fuzzy" is indeed a repeat and, as was the case with the 11/12 cartoon, the repeat is from 2005 (most of this year's Sunday repeats were from 2011).

This makes it the 20th time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has rerun.

[D Heine]

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7:06:03 PM UTC-6, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Stars & Stripes finally updated their Sunday Comics section and the 12/3 edition of "Get Fuzzy" is indeed a repeat and, as was the case with the 11/12 cartoon, the repeat is from 2005 (most of this year's Sunday repeats were from 2011).
>
> This makes it the 20th time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has rerun.

There's a few weeks left in 2017, since only 2 newspaper comic strips ended their runs so far in 2017 - Chuckle Bros. and Tina's Groove (Herb and Jamall doesn't count since it was cut back to first run Sunday mode and daily rerun mode this 2017 year going the Doonesbury/sometimes Get Fuzzy route) - WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END HIS GET FUZZY STRIP FOR GOOD AS SOON AS HE CAN AS OF YET???

[D.D.Degg]

> - WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END HIS GET FUZZY STRIP
> FOR GOOD AS SOON AS HE CAN AS OF YET???

Says the guy whose avatar image is of a character
from a comic strip nearing 18 years of reprinting.

[Antonio E. Gonzalez]

Where's his avatar image?

[D.D.Degg]

Antonio E. Gonzalez asked:

> D.D.Degg wrote:
>
> >> - WHY DOESN'T MR. CONLEY END HIS GET FUZZY STRIP
> >> FOR GOOD AS SOON AS HE CAN AS OF YET???
> >
> >Says the guy whose avatar image is of a character
> >from a comic strip nearing 18 years of reprinting.
>
> Where's his avatar image?

Charlie Brown

[Jimmy Delach]

The 12/10 "Get Fuzzy" strip is new per Stars & Stripes.

Only 3 more Sundays left.

[Jimmy Delach]

The 12/17 "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip is another repeat from 2005.

With Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve remaining (would probably have made more sense for Darby to plan repeats on either day, don't you think?), this makes it the 21st time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has rerun (18 from 2011, 3 from 2005).

[D Heine]

On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 1:26:39 PM UTC-6, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> The 12/17 "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip is another repeat from 2005.
>
> With Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve remaining (would probably have made more sense for Darby to plan repeats on either day, don't you think?), this makes it the 21st time in 2017 a "Get Fuzzy" Sunday strip has rerun (18 from 2011, 3 from 2005).

And when 2018 begins: How long will Darby Conley keep Get Fuzzy in daily rerun mode and off and on first run Sunday mode until he decides to end the strip for good?

[Jimmy Delach]

Because it's the Holidays - and because I noticed Stars & Stripes has their Sunday Comics section posted early - I can confirm that the Christmas Eve edition of "Get Fuzzy" is another 2005 repeat.

With New Year's Eve to go, that makes it 22 Sundays this year a "Get Fuzzy" strip has rerun.

Memo to Darryl: Santa's watching. :)