RELEASE

After 34 Years, Cartoon Cathy Gets Liberated

By Staff

SHE WAS AN ANACRONISM in an age when little girls wean while watching the Powerpuff Girls and and big girls model Sex & The City's Samantha. The comic strip's Cathy was a dweeb. And in today's media, there is no forgiving weak or powerless women.

So come October, after 34 years, Cathy creator Cathy Guisewite will put down her pencils and retire her alter ego. It was a remarkable run, considering that Cathy was the less glamorous, cartoon version of Bridget Jones.

Guisewite said in a statement: "After almost 34 years of meeting newspaper deadlines. I’m facing some personal deadlines whose requirements simply exceed my ability to procrastinate any longer: an 18‐year‐old daughter who needs a full‐time mom to help her through her last year of high school and beyond ... beloved parents I want to be able to visit more often … and a creative biological clock, which is urging me to try something else while I can.”

In a commencement speech she gave in 1994, Guisewite told University of Michigan grads that "if you want something to change, do something different," and to re-evaluate their careers every four years by "regraduating...celebrate what you have done and admit what you are not doing."

Guisewite now's taking her own advice.

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