ACK! Cathy is no longer after 34 years as a daily comic strip.
From a piece in the Los Angeles Times...
On Wednesday, "Cathy" creator Cathy Guisewite announced she'll be retiring in October. She cited several reasons for calling it quits, including a "creative biological clock."
It's the kind of joke the comic Cathy might make as well. During the '80s and '90s, the comic gave the tribulations of single women lighthearted treatment, from Cathy's annual bathing suit shopping trip to her many, many failed dates.
But if Cathy was a chipper, comic-bound Mary-Tyler-Moore type, that kind of single gal eventually started to look a bit, well, dated. Cathy's heavy thighs didn't have the sass of popular books like "The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing" by Melissa Bank or "Good in Bed" by Jennifer Weiner, didn't have the glamor of the "Sex and the City" girls in their Manolo Blahniks. Despite not needing to age, Cathy was starting to feel a bit old.
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