Posted on 08/12/2010 12:02:48 PM PDT by 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.
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I only read Rick O’Shay
If only this was Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”.
I once met Cathy Guisewite at a large multiple book signing event where I also happened to meet actress Anne Francis and puppeteer Shari Lewis.
They all were/are terrific ladies.
I liked especially the early Cathy comic strips.
In the past my favorite comic strips included PEANUTS, BC, THE WIZARD OF ID, TUMBLEWEEDS, MUTT AND JEFF, SAD SACK, BEETLE BAILEY, DICK TRACY, PEARLS BEFORE SWINE, MOMMA, HAGAR THE HORRIBLE, BROOMHILDA, LIL ABNER, DENNIS THE MENACE and ERNIE.
The only worse comic is Doonesbury.
...don't even miss the sports section the way pro sports have evolved.
“Worst comic going.”
For my money that would be Doonesbury.
Now if Calvin and Hobbs would just come back.
LOL!
This really stinks. Now where I am I going to get my fix of female shopping/dieting/obsessing about her looks neurosis?
Never once - ever - funny.
Anne Francis
Hubba Hubba!
A very talented cartoonist friend of mine (Justin Green, who did PULSE magazine’s Musical Legends full-pagers for ten years until it folded-—PULSE was the FREE magazine
TOWER RECORDS published until IT folded)-—said of Kathy Guisewhite, “In a just world, she’d be working as a temp”.
MUSICAL LEGENDS was published in book form some time ago, with great blurbs.
Ten years from now the whole comic strip industry will probably be gone because most of the newspapers they depend on will have folded.
Oprah.
Those are all on my list...I also like Mallard Fillmore and Kudzu.
Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Bill Amend and Berke Breathed (Bloom County esp.) were my favorite comic writers. Only Foxtrot is still active (only on Sundays now).
It started out OK, but went into a loop after a while and never recovered. Used to be relationships and coming-of-age, now it seems to be shopping!
I’m hoping another Calvin and Hobbes quality strip comes along.
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