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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If the papers really wanted to improve sales, they’d rerun Far Side and Calvin & Hobbs like they do Peanuts.
She should just sell the franchise to R. Crumb.
Obviously an aberration for Gary Trudeau. Maybe he ran out of Koolaid the day he penned that one.
Now that is a cartoonist.
Bingo, Calvin and Hobbes was the best, I was truly sad to see that one go.
The character actually got married several years ago. The strip hasn't gotten any funnier, though.
The Golden Age of Comic Strips (1985-1989):
Bloom County (1980-1989)
Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995)
Peanuts (1950-2000)
Far Side (1980-1995)
It should, ideally, end in a double suicide of both the character and the creater.
I’d forgotten that. I actually used to read Doonesbury once upon a time and then Trudeau started getting more and more leftwing and I never read the strip now. But you’re right, he was different early on.
Yeah, that’s a good one.
Now there’s a comic that was absolutely horrible.
No loss.
I don’t know how it lasted. It was never funny, I could care less about Cathy’s mental issues and it was worse drawn that South Park.
Let’s give her a big round of indifference, shall we?
34 years of nothing to say...
Sweet baby Cthulhu, I would pay to see that!
I used to read Doonesbury before the hiatus. After he came back I read the first week of Doonesbury and stopped, never to have read another. Pedantic is one definition of his current work.
Don’t laugh - I have a feeling that Depression Comics are about to make a big comeback...
There haven't been any great strips for some time now. Once The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbs disappeared, what was left? There are still some fairly amusing strips around today (Monty, Get Fuzzy, Zits), but nothing like the strips of old.
Of course, there are some webcomics that are pretty good. Girl Genius, PvPonline, and Something Positive come to mind.
The Far Side. Now that was sad ending.
Dilbert’s only funny because it’s a documentary... ;-)
I liked Downstown, now gone, and Jump Start by Robb Anderson, I think he’s still working.
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