The Fatt Family

    (Side Show, 1991)
©1991 Jim Ridings

Jim Ridings’ Fatt Family is a one-shot comic starring the neighbors everyone dreads having next door. The Fatt Family is headed by Fred Fatt, an “obnoxious, nosy, bossy, rude, pushy, selfish, insensitive, inconsiderate, and ignorant” lout. His wife Frieda is a fitting partner, although she never quite manages the outright crassness of her spouse. Their five children (Harry, Larry, Gary, Carrie, and Terry) are the neighborhood terrors, raising trouble whenever they go. Oh yes—and the rascally Cheese Weasel is the Fatt Family’s lawyer.

The foils for this motley clan are the Argaps: Oliver and Martha. The Fatts are constantly barging into their house to borrow their phone, raid their refrigerator, or hog their TV. Despite this, the Fatts don’t even remember the Argaps’ first names. At the end of this novel, however, the Fatts at least partially meet their match when the Nosey family, an equally obnoxious couple, move in next door.
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