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
absolutely
Do we absolutely, absolutely know this is true?
american-cartoonist cathy disgusted point saw side suddenly thoroughly
When Irving got Vivian it was at a point when CATHY was thoroughly disgusted with him and then suddenly saw this other side of him.
eye giving funny-clever
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
love funny mother
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
mother hug stories
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
reality battle wages
Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
funny-life world materials
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
children believe thinking
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
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.
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.
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.
morning makeup starting-over
A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
happiness reality expectations
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
hair perfect one-day
One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.