Background
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts on June 15, 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts on June 15, 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Amherst College.
Darby Conley"s first cartoons appeared in the Doyle High Trailblazer, his school paper in Knoxville, Tennessee. He went on to earn a Fine Arts/Art History degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts, continuing to improve his Far Side clones for the Amherst Student, graduating in 1994. While a student in college, he played rugby, explaining the rugby sport references in his comic strip.
As of 2000, he was listed as married to a woman named "Laura" (née Frain).
Comics syndicate United Media agreed in 1999 to publish Conley"s new strip about an anthropomorphic cat, Bucky, and dog, Satchel, living with their single young-male owner, Rob Wilco, which premiered on September 6, 1999 in 75 papers. The idea for Bucky"s character came from a friend"s Siamese.
2002, National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Comic Strip. On October 30, 2003, the city of Pittsburgh served as the punch line of a strip about tourism destinations based on smells.
Offended residents of the area deluged the author with negative feedback that included death threats.
A May 13, 2005 strip portrayed Boston-area sports reporter Bob Lobel as a drunk, prompting Lobel to file libel lawsuits against Conley and his syndicate.
Conley was also a member of an all-male, jazz-influenced a cappella group, the Zumbyes.