Get Darby, or Lobel Libel for lowball
I see an article here from the Boston Globe that Darby Conley, The writer-illustrator of the Get Fuzzy comic strip is being sued
by a local sportscaster named Bob Lobel. This for intimating in his 13
May strip that Lobel sometimes did his sportscast with a little help
from branches of the distilling industry. That's last
Friday's paper. I don't think I bought last Fridays paper, and
its already been peeled off the web. I can't imagine that any thing of
Conley's could be construed as willfully malicious, it just isn't his
style - which tends more towards a benign exasperation.
This will be sad news for my niece Nicole who was the first
to introduce me to Get Fuzzy and was a fan of the strip for the better
part of a year before the Washington Post started carrying it. I'm not
sure how that came about, but possibly it involved her aunt - my other
sister Ellen. Get Fuzzy has slowly grown on me, I like it now,
This serves as an exemplar counterpoint to how I feel about
Prickly City.
If this Bob Lobel has been on the air as long as the article
suggests I should remember him from growing up in (the) Boston
(broadcast area), but I can't. The only sportscaster I seem to be able
to picture in my mind is an unnerving strange and uncanny blend of
George Michael and Frank Herzog. But hey it's not as though there
haven't been times when it didn't seem one of those two hadn't gotten
too close to the Teac's.
11:55:14 PM  ;;
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