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November 19, 2004


Get Fuzzy Talks a Lot of ****

I can certainly use curse words like "shit," but newspaper strip cartoonists generally can't, which is why some people made notice of Thursday's Get Fuzzy offering and anticipate a storm of broken hips as America's elderly leap to their mailboxes with scornful letters-to-the-editor in hand.

On the one hand, this kind of thing tends to paint comics in general as a big pain in the butt in the eyes of some already grumpy, cost-cutting newspaper editors. On the other hand, Conley is probably the breakout newspaper strip star of the last half-decade, so it's difficult to question his instincts as to what people will allow him to do in his feature.

 
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