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
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.
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.
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.
thinking careers female
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
shopping people stories
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
trying claims
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
men proud
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
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?
mother intuition great-ones
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
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.
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.
best strips truth
The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.
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.