"Cathy": 1976-2010
"Cathy" creator Cathy Guisewite is hanging up the acks after 34 years of trying to bring The Real Life Of A (Neurotic) Single Lady (Who Is Surrounded By Horrible People) to the funny pages. Guisewite, whose last "Cathy" strip will appear in newspapers on Oct. 3, cites the ticking of her "creative biological clock" (yes, she really said this) as part of the reason for her decision to move on, and Guisewite did show a bit of growth in recent years with jokes about digital bloat, and not just the kind you have after eating too many bon bons. But the strip's already-slim roster of "reasons I will be alone forever and am therefore worthless" gags shrunk (a bit) after the titular heroine decided to marry her longtime on-again off-again sweetheart Irving. (Just like Moonlighting!) And that was in 2005! Surely Guisewite is cursing all the online-dating innovations her namesake missed out on by getting hitched back then.
The question remains: Which American humorist will step forward to capture the intense experience of buying a bikini while simultaneously eating an entire chocolate cake?
I want to see Leno in a bikini. Ack.
"hanging up the acks"
Well done, Maura. Well done.
Digital bloat? Lady fingers, not bon bons.
Is she donating Cathy's thighs to the Smithsonian? I hear they have a spot next to Seinfeld's puffy shirt.
I have a gallon of Cathy sweat in my fridge right now.
Cathy got married? I feel like such a loser now.
Where've you been? You do know Funky Winkerbean is a senator now, right? He took Mallard Fillmore's seat in 2006.
But she married Irving! Dying alone and being eaten by housecats is better than being with that bastard.
There were rumors of a pregnancy coming to us in the future, but alas the "Cathy tearfully consumes her young" month of strips will have to stay in my dreams.
I went to Mallard Fillmore High School.
I've held the notion that if you cross "Cathy" with "Dilbert" you get 65% of scripted television comedy.
Cathy's high-water mark, 2003:
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05232003
Is she going to quit her job? Francis from 'Momma' could sure use it.
I thought the strip started to go downhill when Cathy went through menopause back in the 90s.
And take that speech impediment dog strip with you.
Oh my god, YETH!!!