Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Lee Guisewiteis an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth5 September 1950
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
apology apologizing life-is
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
mother writing waiting
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
dog people house
A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.
letting-go careers firsts
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
inspiring mothers-day mom
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
mom teaching drawing
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
funny witty humorous
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
mammograms messages majority
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
mom real humor
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
mean men brain
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
glowing female pages
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
humor feelings firsts
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
funny-life mean successful
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
winning trying sitting
What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?