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Cathy (Comic Strip)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Cathy is a Newspaper Comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, which ran from 1976 to 2010. It revolves around the eponymous character's life as a single woman, her dealing with a stressful workplace, diets, junk food, being able to fit in swimwear, the dating scene, and an overbearing mother.In the 1970s (the age of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the E.R.A.), a comic about a single young woman trying to make a career was new and innovative. The strip was extremely popular in its heyday, with many women readers readily identifying with the title character as she dealt with common problems of modern single life. A rumor in the 1980s that she was finally going to marry her on-again, off-again boyfriend Irving sparked a lot of fan backlash from single women who didn't want to lose this character they could relate to. (Cathy finally did marry Irving in 2005, and the final strip in 2010 featured the announcement that Cathy was pregnant with a girl.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })During the COVID-19 Pandemic Guisewite would bring the character back for an on-off series of one-panel comics called Scenes from Isolation which she would share on her Instagram profile, as a way of dealing with being stuck in quarantine. | |
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Author Avatar: Downplayed. While Cathy shares the first name of writer and artist Cathy Guisewite, she is not meant to be a one-to-one reflection of her creator. The shared name was also something essentially done out of necessity; according to Guisewite, the Universal Press Syndicate would only pick up the strip on the condiction that she named the titular character after herself (Guisewite even admitted upfront in an 2021 interview that she originally outright disliked the idea because she was self-concious about it appearing "egoistical" and feared getting conflated with the character). That being said, Cathy the character did start out with some traits in common with Guisewite, being a single, working woman, struggling with everyday problems like stress, insecurities about her body and self-image, and relationships. | |
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Animated Adaptation: The 1987 Cathy TV special, for which Guisewite received an Emmy. It even got two more in 1988 and 1989. | |
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Art Evolution: And how! The strip's artwork was insanely crude in its first couple of years; it wasn't until the early '80s that Guisewite's drawing skills became passable. | |
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