![]() ![]() "They felt it would make it a more personal strip, and it would help people to know it was a real woman who was going through these things. "The syndicate felt it would make the strip more relatable if the character's name and my name were the same," Guisewite said in an interview. Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip. ![]() Three television specials were also created. The strips have been collected into more than 20 books. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and at its peak appeared in over 1,400 newspapers. Cathy's characteristics and issues both made fun of and sometimes fed into negative stereotypes about women. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. It features a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life - food, love, family, and work. Electra and Vivian, their dogs, are also in the picture.Ĭathy is a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. ![]()
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