Cathy Guisewite to End Cathy Comic Strip

Posted on August 11, 2010

Cathy Guisewite, creator of the Cathy comic strip, announced that she is ending the strip on October 3rd after 34 years. Can we get an AAAAACK!!?

So why is she retiring? The ">Chicago Tribune reports:

Guisewite cited "personal deadlines" she wanted to meet in retiring "Cathy." She said she wanted time to care for her daughter, visit her parents more often and address "a creative biological clock, which is urging me to try something else while I can."

Guisewite wouldn't let on how the strip might end, quipping, "If I had the sort of brain capable of planning two weeks ahead I never would have been able to create this strip for the last 34 years."

Cathy was the first nationally syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was ahead of its time in 1976: there hadn't been anything like it before that was aimed directly at women and their day to day issues.

Guisewite hasn't said what she plans to do next, but we feel sure it will be funny. Andy Samberg will no doubt be crushed to see Cathy go.

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