`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years

Associated Press ^ | 8-11-10 | MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER

[Justaham]

The comic strip "Cathy," which has chronicled the life, frustrations and swimsuit season meltdowns of its namesake for more than 30 years, is coming to an end.

Cathy Guisewite, the strip's creator, said Wednesday that deciding to end the comic strip was "excruciating." The comic has won several awards, including a 1992 National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 1987, and at its height appeared in 1,400 papers.

"It's just been really unbelievably agonizing to make the decision," Guisewite said in a telephone interview from her home in the Los Angeles area. "The strip has not only been the most astonishing form of therapy for 34 years, but doing a daily comic strip for the newspaper set a certain rhythm for my life."

The final "Cathy" strip, will run in newspapers on Sunday, Oct. 3.

[olepap]

Worst comic going.

[Moose4]

Considering that she’s been recycling the same eight or so comics for 20+ years now, yeah, it’s time to end it.

}:-)4

[DCBryan1]

Yeah, 34 years of blah. Of course, there has never been anything like Larson’s Far Side.

[Mr. Bird]

Not a moment too soon; the strip consisted of the same three or four gags restated in different settings. Sure, she represented women: as shallow, one dimensional freakshows.

[Scythian]

I don’t know how I’ll make it through life now honestly ...

[Cedar]

That’s a long run. Time just flies, seems like not long ago it began.

[andy58-in-nh]

Worst comic going.

I thought that was "Mary Worth"...

[a fool in paradise]

[Uncle Miltie]

Yay!

[JennysCool]

Our long national nightmare is over.

[livius]

It had occasional funny moments, but it’s gotten tired and I’m glad she’s leaving it before it’s totally dead.

The only one I really read anymore is Dilbert.

[Krankor]

I haven’t read the comics for years, but I remember Cathy as being fairly interesting and humorous, although I seem to remember some politically motivated cartoons in the last few years- but I could be mistaken it was Cathy.

[andy58-in-nh]

I like Dilbert, but I truly miss The Far Side.

[I Buried My Guns]

Was it even a comic? It appeared to me as an inner dialog of an unhappy, overweight, unmarriageable woman, or maybe even an unhappy, overweight, unmarriageable gay man.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good riddance.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

Cathy's opus:

[printhead]

Cathy, in a word is lame, my fave is a tossup between “The Quigmans” and “Red Meat”.