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`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years
Associated Press ^
| 8-11-10
| MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER
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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ack; cathy; cathyguisewite; comicstrip
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:02:49 PM PDT
by
Justaham
To: Justaham
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:05:07 PM PDT
by
olepap
(God help us)
To: Justaham
Considering that she’s been recycling the same eight or so comics for 20+ years now, yeah, it’s time to end it.
}:-)4
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:05:46 PM PDT
by
Moose4
(November 2, 2010--the day that "YES WE CAN" becomes "OH NO YOU DIN'T")
To: olepap
Yeah, 34 years of blah. Of course, there has never been anything like Larson’s Far Side.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:05:54 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
To: Justaham
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.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:11 PM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: Justaham
I don’t know how I’ll make it through life now honestly ...
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:13 PM PDT
by
Scythian
To: Justaham
That’s a long run. Time just flies, seems like not long ago it began.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:22 PM PDT
by
Cedar
To: olepap
Worst comic going. I thought that was "Mary Worth"...
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:31 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:39 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: Justaham
Yay!
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:39 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(How many plagues must Phara0bama bring before he Let's The People Go?)
To: Justaham
Our long national nightmare is over.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:06:46 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: Justaham
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.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:07:09 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Justaham
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.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
Krankor
(What a field day for the heat. A thousand people in the street)
To: DCBryan1
I like Dilbert, but I truly miss The Far Side.
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:07:41 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: olepap
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.
To: Justaham
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:08:13 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: olepap; JoeProBono
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:08:13 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: I Buried My Guns
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:09:00 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Cathy's opus:
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posted on
08/12/2010 12:10:52 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: Justaham
Cathy, in a word is lame, my fave is a tossup between “The Quigmans” and “Red Meat”.
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