`Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years

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

[Boxsford]

Same goes for Obama and his cabinet and czars.

[ScottinVA]

I liked all of those; Gasoline Alley was one of my favs for years.

[andy58-in-nh]

I like Harry Bliss (”Bliss”) - he’s edgy, a little dark. definitely has some issues with women and his mother, and adores his dog. His web site is here: http://www.harrybliss.com

[Stand Watch Listen]

Dec 31, 1995 (My...my.. almost 15 years...where the time go???..

[wideminded]

I’ll go against the flow and say that despite being a male heterosexual I always kind of liked Cathy.

[rahbert]

Sally
Blondie
Katzenjammer Kids
Terry and the Pirates

[rahbert]

Thats a man!

[andy58-in-nh]

I do miss Gary Larson...

[discostu]

But where will all the women that hate themselves get their reminders that they’re fat and ugly and stupid?

I was always shocked by the success of Cathy, it’s really a very anti-women comic.

[Padams]

Cathy was funny once upon a time but the swimsuit and dieting jokes got old a long time ago. At least Cathy finally married. The creator was either lazy or not very creative. Cathy needed to grow up and move on with life. No real woman would spend 34 years complaining about trying on swimsuits. She would just quit going to the pool and beach.

[trisham]

I think I read it once or twice. It was less than mediocre.

[a fool in paradise]

But you’re right, he was different early on.

(1970s)

[discostu]

I went to nerd school, that Farside was taped to the door of every single class. I think it was the teachers way of reminding us our place in the world.

[mrs. a]

Cathy was funny for the first year or two, but after that, it was phoned in.

If you’ll miss the strip, print these out and hang them in your cubicle. Rotate as necessary:

FRAME 1: My inbox is full!
FRAME 2: My inbox is full!
Repeat for Frames 3 through 6
FRAME 7: ACK!

FRAME 1: I look terrible in this swimsuit!
FRAME 2: I look terrible in this swimsuit!
Repeat for Frames 3 through 6
FRAME 7: ACK!

FRAME 1: I’m eating enough chocolate to make me sick!
FRAME 2: I’m eating enough chocolate to make me sick!
Repeat for Frames 3 through 6
FRAME 7: ACK!

[a fool in paradise]

Can I pause here to post a photo of Anne Francis?

[dmz]

I was at his alma mater the same years as he was. He provided us with considerable amusement in the college paper.

Really unassuming kind of guy. We hung in completely different circles.

[jdub]

I remember one good set involving Cathy’s feminist friend who then got married and had a child. This was at the time of the whole feminist notion that gender identity was due to how you raised the kids. So they gave the girl a truck, and the boy a doll. The girl put a dress on the truck, and the boy used the doll as a gun. It was really funny.

[tanknetter]

Obviously an aberration for Gary Trudeau. Maybe he ran out of Koolaid the day he penned that one.

Not really, it fits completely with his personality.

Trudeau and Kerry were in rival secret societies at Yale (Scroll & Key, Skull & Bones, respectively). Apparently Scroll & Key was Trudeau's SECOND choice, but he failed to be tapped for S&B. For Trudeau, being a very petty little man, animosity from that situation completely trumped any sort of ideological alignment.

That animosity is also why a lot of people felt Trudeau went after the Presidents Bush more visciously than he did Reagan.

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Calvin & Hobbes influenced a nation of snowmen builders ;)

[La Lydia]

There is a Far Side-like comic called Argyle Sweater that I like very much:
http://www.theargylesweater.com/