Is Darby Conley all right?

[Joseph Nebus]

So, for the past month, we've had:

Week of February 11: New strips.
Week of February 18: Reruns from 2010.
Week of February 25: Reruns from 2010.
Week of March 4: New strips.
Week of March 11: Reruns from 2010.

Putting aside his apparent decision to rerun Bucky's rants
about the Muppets until someone finds them amusing, that's a *lot*
of rerun weeks.

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[Jimmy Delach]

I just thought I'd bump this up since "Get Fuzzy" is in reruns again.

Fourth time in the last six weeks. Dang.

[Paul]

Jimmy Delach <jdelac...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:b099c3e9-f763-4a78...@googlegroups.com:

> I just thought I'd bump this up since "Get Fuzzy" is in reruns
> again.
>
> Fourth time in the last six weeks. Dang.

As long as he doesn't catch Pandolphitis.

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[Jimmy Delach]

Another week of reruns for "Get Fuzzy". It's now five in the last seven weeks. No fooling.

[Jimmy Delach]

On Monday, April 1, 2013 3:39:37 PM UTC-4, Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Another week of reruns for "Get Fuzzy". It's now five in the last seven weeks. No fooling.

Another week of reruns. "Get Fuzzy" has only had new weeks of strips in three out of the last ten (and on an unrelated note from reading the Tampa Bay Times "Curtis" is in repeats too).

It's worth pointing out that every week "Get Fuzzy" is in reruns, it does not run in the New York Daily News which never runs any of their strips in reruns (They don't even run "Doonesbury" when Trudeau takes time off and they cancelled "Peanuts" and "For Better Or For Worse" a few years back).

I just wonder how long before the Daily News has had enough of "Fuzzy" before it ends? Or any other newspaper for that matter?

[Ted Goldblatt]

Get Fuzzy has had heavy doses of rerun weeks (often 1 out of 3, as much
as 2 out of 3) for at least several years. I haven't followed the strip
very regularly since it was dropped from my paper and usually only check
the copyright date if a strip looks familiar, but as far as I know this
is still going on. It has been remarked on here on racs several times
and is regularly brought up on gocomics, with the side question of why.
I have never seen any answer to that question, but Conley hasn't lost
his syndication deal and I haven't heard of a wholesale loss of papers,
so this is apparently being mostly tolerated.

ted

[Jimmy Delach]

Good news everybody. "Get Fuzzy" strips are all new this week. Enjoy them while you can (because they'll probably go back to reruns next week :)).

And after four straight weeks of reruns, the New York Daily News is running "Fuzzy" again (as stated before, they refuse to publish reruns be it "Fuzzy", "Doonesbury" or whatever). Interestingly from reading the Tampa Bay Times, "Curtis" is in reruns for the fourth straight week.

Here's Today's strip. And I agree with Bucky - re: "Old Yeller" - I don't recall ever seeing that movie but even I know it doesn't end well. It reminds me of the "Friends" episode where Phoebe finally sees the ending after her mother (the same one who committed suicide) wouldn't allow her to watch. She was devastated.

http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2013/05/13

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
> (and on an unrelated note from reading the Tampa Bay Times "Curtis" is in repeats too).

What amazed me about this is the copyright date.

King Features reprint strips ALWAYS change
the copyright date to the current year.

Tiger
http://www.thestar.com/diversions/Comics.html?feature_id=Tiger
Popeye
http://www.thestar.com/diversions/Comics.html?feature_id=Popeye
Hazel,
Flash Gordon,
Henry,
Crock.

KFS NEVER leaves the original publication year on the
reprinted strips - until these (not so) current Curtis strips:
http://www.thestar.com/diversions/Comics.html?feature_id=Curtis

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

Isn't Archie basically in repeats too? Of course those examples given are by comic strips whose creators stopped drawing the strip or have died (I know Bud Blake is no longer with us and I think both "Crock" creators are dead).

FYI, "For Better Or For Worse" also changes the year on their rerun strips (with the copyright date being "2013" instead of "1984"). Same goes for occasional "Family Circus" strips (at least those that have a continuing theme; usually vacation strips or the family's trip to the mall last year or the recent "Daddy's sick" strips).

Also this week's "Curtis" reruns feature Diane's current hairstyle. Some past strips (particularly the storyline of Barry recording Curtis snoring that ran last week) had Diane's old hairstyle.

[Joseph Nebus]

In <32c07f0d-8106-46dd...@googlegroups.com> Jimmy Delach <jdelac...@gmail.com> writes:

>On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:18:21 PM UTC-4, D.D.Degg wrote:
>> Jimmy Delach wrote:

>>=20
>> > (and on an unrelated note from reading the Tampa Bay Times "Curtis" is =

>in repeats too).
>> What amazed me about this is the copyright date.

>> King Features reprint strips ALWAYS change
>> the copyright date to the current year.

>> KFS NEVER leaves the original publication year on the
>> reprinted strips - until these (not so) current Curtis strips:

>> http://www.thestar.com/diversions/Comics.html?feature_id=3DCurtis

>Isn't Archie basically in repeats too? Of course those examples given are b=
>y comic strips whose creators stopped drawing the strip or have died (I kno=
>w Bud Blake is no longer with us and I think both "Crock" creators are dead=
>).

>FYI, "For Better Or For Worse" also changes the year on their rerun strips =
>(with the copyright date being "2013" instead of "1984"). Same goes for occ=
>asional "Family Circus" strips (at least those that have a continuing theme=
>; usually vacation strips or the family's trip to the mall last year or the=

> recent "Daddy's sick" strips).

>Also this week's "Curtis" reruns feature Diane's current hairstyle. Some pa=
>st strips (particularly the storyline of Barry recording Curtis snoring tha=

>t ran last week) had Diane's old hairstyle.

And for more mystery, yesterday's _Herb and Jamaal_ rerun for
no obvious reason one of the handful of comic strips that got specific
enough to date really badly. The strip itself seems to dip into and
out of reruns often enough to not attract even _Herb and Jamaal_ grades
of attention, but this one ... I mean, didn't anyone at the syndicate
read the strip before including it in the pile, or have we just given
up pretending there's editors anymore?

http://www.gocomics.com/herbandjamaal/2013/05/14

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[D.D.Degg]

> Jimmy Delach wrote:
> > (and on an unrelated note from reading the Tampa Bay Times "Curtis" is in repeats too).

And has been for over a month now.

I was worried that something had happened to Ray,
but he put up a recent post to the new
Cartoonist Studio blog:
http://www.thecartooniststudio.com/TCSBlog.aspx

But a month seems to be a rather long time
to go with no new strips (Conley excepted).
Has Billingsley turned to other pursuits?

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

Well it probably comes as no surprise to "Get Fuzzy" readers that they're back in rerun mode this week (I called it last week).

What is surprising is that "Curtis" is still in reruns for five straight weeks now. Yes folks, believe it or not "Curtis" now has a longer active rerun streak than "Get Fuzzy" (not counting strips that are in endless reruns i.e. "Peanuts", "For Better Or For Worse" and the like).

BTW Michelle referenced Miss Piggy as being on "Sesame Street" when (correct me if I'm wrong) she was never on that show (Kermit yes, Piggy no).

Of course I doubt Kermit even appears on "Sesame Street" these days since Disney owned the Muppets franchise (save for "Sesame Street" characters who are owned by the Children's Television Workshop).

[John W Kennedy]

On 2013-05-20 20:57:15 +0000, Jimmy Delach said:

> Well it probably comes as no surprise to "Get Fuzzy" readers that
> they're back in rerun mode this week (I called it last week).
>
> What is surprising is that "Curtis" is still in reruns for five
> straight weeks now. Yes folks, believe it or not "Curtis" now has a
> longer active rerun streak than "Get Fuzzy" (not counting strips that
> are in endless reruns i.e. "Peanuts", "For Better Or For Worse" and the
> like).
>
> BTW Michelle referenced Miss Piggy as being on "Sesame Street" when
> (correct me if I'm wrong) she was never on that show (Kermit yes, Piggy
> no).

You are correct, and the point has been made in Comments.

> Of course I doubt Kermit even appears on "Sesame Street" these days
> since Disney owned the Muppets franchise (save for "Sesame Street"
> characters who are owned by the Children's Television Workshop).

His most recent appearance appears to have been in 2009.

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[Jimmy Delach]

Happy Memorial Day everyone!!!

Both "Get Fuzzy" and "Curtis" are still in reruns this week. For "Curtis", it's in repeats for the sixth straight week.

Interestingly, "Doonesbury" has new strips this week even with this being a holiday.

A few weeks back, I referenced the NY Daily News refuses to run old "Get Fuzzy" strips and given its' rerun stretch, it does not appear in the Daily News often (I don't know if the same applies to Sunday rerun strips or not; anybody in the NY area confirm?). The Daily News isn't running "Curtis" either. But then again, the Daily News dropped "Curtis" early in 2011.

http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2011/03/01/reply-all-launches-ny-daily-news-drops-12-comics/

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
>
> Both "Get Fuzzy" and "Curtis" are still in reruns this week.
> For "Curtis", it's in repeats for the sixth straight week.

Could you tell me when the last new daily Curtis
and the last new Sunday Curtis appeared?

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

I wish I had evidence but I could swear that 4/20 and 4/21 were the last dates of new Daily and Sunday Curtis strips respectively.

[D.D.Degg]

I didn't notice the Curtis reruns 'til you mentioned it.

At that time I checked as far back as I could
and had the daily reruns starting at least by April 15.
That was on the assumption that, since I had
gotten a strip from later that week, the whole
week was reruns.

The Sundays I have reruns from at least May 5,
I think before that the Sundays were original runs.
Can someone verify?

Seven weeks of Curtis reruns is making me think
Billingsley has given up on the strip.

Speaking of reruns, Doonesbury is going that route for the summer:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/this-just-in-doonesbury-to-go-on-sabbatical-as-amazon-studios-officially-picks-up-trudeaus-capitol-hill-comedy-alpha-house/2013/05/29/3aba59ee-c866-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_blog.html
That's one heck of a url, maybe just try
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs
and scroll down to the Doonesbury headline.

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

re: Trudeau so it's likely safe to assume that Alex and Leo will welcome their twins next week before the sabbatical starts?

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Both "Get Fuzzy" and "Curtis" are still in reruns this week.

Now we know what Conley's
been doing instead of his strip.
He's been painting:
http://blogs.gocomics.com/2013/05/get-fuzzy-birth-of-canis.html

Surly he will now get back to the strip regularly.

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

Hopefully. Especially in the case of the NY Daily News. With "Doonesbury" going on sabbatical a week from Monday hopefully they won't have two less comic strips out due to frequent reruns.

And don't call me Shirley. :)

[Jimmy Delach]

New "Get Fuzzy" is back!

Yesterday's Sunday strip is new along with this week's strips.

"Curtis" update:

Another week of reruns. That's 7 weeks in a row for those of you keeping score. "Curtis" turns 25 in October. What are the chances Ray Billingsley will have new strips by then - if at all?

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
> New "Get Fuzzy" is back!
> Yesterday's Sunday strip is new along with this week's strips.
>
> "Curtis" update:
> Another week of reruns.

Looks like Watch Your Head is going reruns this week:
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/watchyourhead/art_images/cg51a8e5e981b7b.jpg

D.D.Degg

[Jimmy Delach]

Good catch. That runs in the Tampa Bay Times too (are they the only paper still running that strip?).

[Jimmy Delach]

Here's another strip we missed. Lio has been in reruns the last two weeks.

http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2013/06/06

[Jimmy Delach]

Here's this week's report on reruns other than Doonesbury.

After new strips last week "Get Fuzzy" has resumed rerun mode for the time being.

Also, "Lio" and "Watch Your Head" are back to new strips after both strips were in reruns last week (two weeks for "Lio").

And finally "Curtis" is still in repeats. The total is now eight weeks in a row since the last new Curtis strip ran.

[Jimmy Delach]

"Get Fuzzy" has new strips this week. Only the second time in the last three weeks we've had new strips.

As for "Curtis", he's still in reruns and it's now going on for nine straight weeks (heck, if this keeps up Ray Billingsley might have a longer break than Garry Trudeau this year).

Of course I saw this coming when I looked up the 2007 storyline of Miss Nelson announcing her departure the other day only to reveal in today's rerun that it was not the case.

[Jimmy Delach]

Here's your weekly rerun update.

"Get Fuzzy" is back in reruns this week and for the New York Daily News which refuses to carry rerun strips of anything, it's once again down two strips as "Doonesbury" is in Week 3 of Trudeau's 12-week sabbatical.

But even Trudeau may not have the longest such break in 2013 as "Curtis" is still in reruns and that's 10 straight weeks since a new "Curtis" strip last ran.

[Jimmy Delach]

Here's more on "Curtis" this week. I think I touched on this issue elsewhere. Far be it for me to tell Mr. Billingsley which old strips to run again but Today's rerun strip (part of this week's storyline rerun of Curtis at Gunther's Barber Shop from 2006) had Diane's old hairstyle rather than her current one (There was a storyline that rerun a few weeks ago that I need to look into again that had Diane's previous hairstyle).

http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Curtis/2013-06-28/

LOL Greg in panel four. :)


By contrast, here's this past Sunday's Curtis rerun (at least this one had her current hairstyle).

http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Curtis/2013-06-23/

[Jimmy Delach]

Quick update on our two favorite comic strip updates...

"Get Fuzzy" is in new strips this week (maybe Darby is alternating a week of new strips with a week of reruns now?)

As for "Curtis" it's in reruns for an 11th straight week and I knew it before I even bothered to look at the copyright date since it's another rerun with the old Diane hairstyle.


Sure enough it's part of a storyline in which Diane is entertaining some friends from church as I looked up. Then Gunk comes over with his flyspeck island chameleon who eventually causes hijinks especially with Diane and her church ladies. The original storyline lasted two weeks from 7/10/2006 through 7/22/2006 so rest assured "Curtis" will still be in reruns next week (and Billingsley will have tied Garry Trudeau's sabbatical this year with a chance to surpass him).

[Jimmy Delach]

Oh and Dan Piraro is on vacation from "Bizarro" but there are no reruns unlike some strips. Instead (like the "Rhymes With Orange" example) there will be a sub artist. This week's strips are being drawn by J.C. "The Fusco Brothers" Duffy.

[D.D.Degg]

Jimmy Delach wrote:
> Quick update on our two...
>
> As for "Curtis" it's in reruns for an 11th straight week...

Every week that Curtis continues in rerun status
reinforces the thought that Ray Billingsley has
given up on creating new strips. My thinking is
that King Features keeps Curtis syndicated because
it is the only comic strip on its roster dealing
with an Afro-American family by an Afro-American cartoonist.

But there is no news about Billingsley retiring
from the daily grind, instead we get this:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/jun/30/jack-mcelroy-sentinel-launches-new-comics-apps/

The Knoxville News Sentinel replaces
The Knight Life with the Curtis reruns!

Curtis IS sneaking up on its 25th anniversary,
it began running October 3, 1988:

Curtis
by Ray Billingsley
daily October 3, 1988 - April 13, 2013(?)
Sunday October 10, 1988 - April 28, 2013(?)
As far as I can determine the daily
reprints started with April 15, 2013:
http://blog.dailyink.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Curtis.jpg

D.D.Degg

[D.D.Degg]

D.D.Degg incorrectly wrote:
>
> Curtis
> by Ray Billingsley

>
> Sunday October 10, 1988 - April 28, 2013(?)

Should read
Sunday October 9, 1988

[Jimmy Delach]

By jove you're right.

And with further research I stand corrected. The last new Daily "Curtis" ran April 6th meaning we have 13 straight weeks of "Curtis" reruns meaning Billingsley has already surpassed Trudeau's break (Maybe Garry should've asked for more time off. :D). And with the storyline info I just gave the rerun streak will stretch to 14 straight weeks.

BTW The April 28th strip was a repeat. 4/21 was the last new Sunday strip.

Nice comic strip info BTW D.D. Degg.

[D.D.Degg]

I thought Theron Heir had returned to
Rudy Park with his signature back on the strip.
Turns out this week's strips are copyright 2011.
http://www.gocomics.com/rudypark

[Jimmy Delach]

Due to circumstances beyond my control I am offline at home indefinitely so my post comes from a library.

"Get Fuzzy" is back in reruns (still alternating new strips with reruns the last few weeks; can't remember when was the last time "Fuzzy" had more than one consecutive week of new strips). And with Doonesbury's sabbatical and the New York Daily News refusing to carry rerun strips, they're down two strips this week.


And as I mentioned last week "Curtis" is still in reruns. That's now 14 straight weeks of "Curtis" reruns (as for Sunday strips, the rerun streak is at 11 straight weeks).

[rugbyb...@yahoo.com]

On Monday, March 11, 2013 at 3:48:29 PM UTC-4, Joseph Nebus wrote:
> So, for the past month, we've had:
>
> Week of February 11: New strips.
> Week of February 18: Reruns from 2010.
> Week of February 25: Reruns from 2010.
> Week of March 4: New strips.
> Week of March 11: Reruns from 2010.
>
> Putting aside his apparent decision to rerun Bucky's rants
> about the Muppets until someone finds them amusing, that's a *lot*
> of rerun weeks.
>
> --
> http://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/ Joseph Nebus
> Current Entry: Reading the Comics, February 26, 2013 http://wp.me/p1RYhY-qx
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Random thought brought me here.
Where was Darby Conley on Saturday, Feb. 27, 1998.
That was the day I lost my # 5 Possum Jersey, when I had to leave the match because of injury. Later I saw Mr. Conley wearing my Jersey in one of his strips. That turned out to be my last Rugby match. I sometimes wonder if that jersey is still around somewhere.
Buck Rogers, Knoxville, Tn. Possum For Life

[D Heine]

>
>
> It's worth pointing out that every week "Get Fuzzy" is in reruns, it does not run in the New York Daily News which never runs any of their strips in reruns (They don't even run "Doonesbury" when Trudeau takes time off and they cancelled "Peanuts" and "For Better Or For Worse" a few years back).
>
I'll be happy if Get Fuzzy ends its fun for good by this Summer 2015 as a rerun daily/first run Sunday strip.

[099...@gmail.com]

On Monday, March 11, 2013 at 2:48:29 PM UTC-5, Joseph Nebus wrote:
> So, for the past month, we've had:
>
> Week of February 11: New strips.
> Week of February 18: Reruns from 2010.
> Week of February 25: Reruns from 2010.
> Week of March 4: New strips.
> Week of March 11: Reruns from 2010.
>
> Putting aside his apparent decision to rerun Bucky's rants
> about the Muppets until someone finds them amusing, that's a *lot*
> of rerun weeks.
>
> --
> http://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/ Joseph Nebus
> Current Entry: Reading the Comics, February 26, 2013 http://wp.me/p1RYhY-qx
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Re: Get Fuzzy-- Great artwork, AWFUL writing. Not. Funny. Ever.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <6dad39d6-91a5-4f4a...@googlegroups.com>,

Read the first book. It *was* great. Sad what it became.
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[Chrysi Cat]

Welcome to R.A.C.S., and judging by how old a post you dredged up to
reply to, to Usenet as a whole. I take it you're reading through Google
Groups?

Just FYI--you got really lucky with the newsgroup you decided to necro a
post in. There are a lot where you'd be receiving 10 flames in the clear
and another 40 by email, even today, for doing that! :-p

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[Joe Morris]

Not so long ago, Chrysi Cat wrote:
> Welcome to R.A.C.S., and judging by how old a post you dredged up to
> reply to, to Usenet as a whole. I take it you're reading through Google
> Groups?

> Just FYI--you got really lucky with the newsgroup you decided to necro a
> post in. There are a lot where you'd be receiving 10 flames in the clear
> and another 40 by email, even today, for doing that! :-p

There is something funny about re-vivifying a zombie post about a still-zombie
strip. Like Joe sez, the first book was good..... and, that's all folks!

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[Joe Morris]

Not so long ago, Joe Morris wrote:
> Not so long ago, Chrysi Cat wrote:
> > Welcome to R.A.C.S., and judging by how old a post you dredged up to
> > reply to, to Usenet as a whole. I take it you're reading through Google
> > Groups?

> > Just FYI--you got really lucky with the newsgroup you decided to necro a
> > post in. There are a lot where you'd be receiving 10 flames in the clear
> > and another 40 by email, even today, for doing that! :-p

> There is something funny about re-vivifying a zombie post about a still-zombie
> strip. Like Joe sez, the first book was good..... and, that's all folks!

I meant "Ted". Sorry, Ted

....and of course another time-honored Usenetism The Self-Followup, sorry, UUCP)

If only someone would correct some eccentric grammar or a spelling error
With a 227 line .sig file, of course, sorry, Kibo

[D Heine]

> http://atlhistory.com

At least, like Garry Truedau and Doonesbury since March 2014, Mr. Conley still tries to keep Get Fuzzy alive as since November 2013 has cut back to rerun mode daily/mostly first run Sunday with a here and there Sunday rerun in occassion thing.