`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years

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

[a fool in paradise]

She's come along ways since she ran a pushcart.

[Krankor]

I only read Rick O’Shay

[fish hawk]

If only this was Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”.

[Ev Reeman]

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.

[olepap]

The only worse comic is Doonesbury.

[TexasCajun]

The only thing I miss not having Houston's only daily delivered, the comics.

...don't even miss the sports section the way pro sports have evolved.

[Huskrrrr]

“Worst comic going.”

For my money that would be Doonesbury.

[OB1kNOb]

Now if Calvin and Hobbs would just come back.

[Salamander]

LOL!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

This really stinks. Now where I am I going to get my fix of female shopping/dieting/obsessing about her looks neurosis?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Finally. Thank God.

Never once - ever - funny.

[Huskrrrr]

Anne Francis

Hubba Hubba!

[supremedoctrine]

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.

[Non-Sequitur]

Ten years from now the whole comic strip industry will probably be gone because most of the newspapers they depend on will have folded.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Oprah.

[gimme1ibertee]

Those are all on my list...I also like Mallard Fillmore and Kudzu.

[JoeProBono]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

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).

[DBrow]

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.

[stormer]

Oh, I don't know. Here's one from 1971...