Cathy's Cake

Revisit Cathy Guisewite’s iconic comic about modern womanhood, relationships, food, and work. Cathy Classics brings back timeless humor from the beloved strip.

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Cathy is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic follows Cathy, a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life: food, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women.

Created by Cathy Guisewite, Cathy is about a woman with career and lifestyle ambitions difficult to fulfill.

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Cathy Guisewite's Cathy comic strip spent more than 30 years finding the humor in the most anxiety-inducing aspects of everyday life.

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“Cathy” was an American comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic is about a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, family, and work.

Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip Cathy (1976–2010). It detailed the life of a single career woman whose struggles with weight and romantic relationships were often resolved with a cry of ‘Aack!’ and a binge shopping spree.

After all, she has her mom to thank for a lot of things — including encouraging her to create the wildly popular comic strip Cathy. The comic about a relatable woman struggling to balance work,...

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'Cathy' Creator Cathy Guisewite Reflects on 50 Years of Comic Strip ...

It’s easy to distill Cathy to her desperate flailing for male affection, but there’s an argument to be made that the comic’s real love story was the one between Cathy and her mother.

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