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
Cathy Guisewite quotes about
mother hug stories
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
love funny mother
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
eye giving funny-clever
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
aware begin comic create quite strip
I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.
connect cut feeling felt liked millions strip women
Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.
best strips truth
The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.
american-cartoonist cathy
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
imagine life love
I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.