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This is a (COMPLETE YEAR!) (312) (A FEW PHOTOCOPIES) CATHY DAILIES BY CATHY GUISEWITE. These were cut from the original newspaper Daily Comics pages of 1-12,1981 SIZE: 2.5 X 7 INCHES. PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, A FE ... Read More
This is a (COMPLETE YEAR!) (312) (A FEW PHOTOCOPIES) CATHY DAILIES BY CATHY GUISEWITE. These were cut from the original newspaper Daily Comics pages of 1-12,1981 SIZE: 2.5 X 7 INCHES. PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, A FEW HAVE SMALL ARCHIVAL REPAIRS ON THE BACKSIDE, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! PULLED FROM PAGES! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) FREE POSTAGE! (USA) $20.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
Cathy
Author(s) Cathy Guisewite
Current status/schedule Concluded daily strip
Launch date November 22, 1976
End date October 3, 2010
Syndicate(s) Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick
Genre(s) Humor, gag-a-day
Cathy is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic is about a woman, Cathy, who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of lifeâfood, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and appeared in over 1,400 newspapers at its peak. The strips have been compiled into more than 20 books. Three television specials were also created. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip.
History
Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. "The syndicate felt it would make the strip more relatable if the character's name and my name were the same," Guisewite said in an interview. "They felt it would make it a more personal strip, and it would help people to know it was a real woman who was going through these things. I hated the idea of calling it 'Cathy.'" However, Guisewite had Cathy's longtime boyfriend Irving propose marriage on Valentine's Day 2004. The two characters married in the February 5, 2005 strip. That same year, Cathy appeared in the 75th anniversary party of Blondie and Dagwood.
On August 11, 2010, Cathy Guisewite announced the decision to end the run of Cathy. On October 3, 2010, the final strip ran, with the revelation that Cathy is pregnant with a girl.
On June 1, 2020, Cathy Commiserations began on GoComics. The earliest strip was dated March 15, 2020.
Main Characters
Cathy Andrews Hillman (born Katharine Marianna Martucci): the protagonist of the strip and the only one not shown with a nose (although a small one was occasionally seen in side views). Cathy is also the only character that does not have beady eyes; instead, hers are drawn in an inverted heart-shape.
Andrea: initially Cathy's feminist foil and best friend and really her younger sister (Cathy was the eldest of four children, all girls), Andrea's role was reduced in the later years. Andrea is married to Luke, whom she met during an on-line chat, and has two children, Zenith and Gus, who grew from infants to uninhibited teens (not seen in the strips), illustratingâespecially Zenithâthat the characters do age, albeit very slowly. With Zenith, Andrea was obsessed with motherhood, to the point of eating special diets while pregnant and playing music on headphones into her pregnant womb to ensure her baby was born with a high IQ, and then bonding so tightly with Zenith that she understood her baby babble perfectly. Gus, however, entered a playgroup and she did not have as strong a connection with him (which initially left her distraught).
Electra: Cathy's dogârescued from the animal shelter as a puppy.
Vivian: Irving's dogâalso a rescue dog from the shelter. Both Cathy and Irving said that the dogs rescued them.
Anne (Annamaria) Andrews (née Martucci): Cathy's mother. Just as likely to provide frustration as inspiration. Refused to throw anything out, even online. Was highly marriage obsessed and was constantly either asking Cathy when she was getting married or trying to fix her up.
Bill Andrews (born Willy Baba): Cathy's father. More often than not, a helpless bystander to Cathy's mom. Cathy went to him when she needed advice about work, something Cathy's mom (even though she had created jobsâM.O.Ms, Mothers on the Move, or Granny Nannies, the daycare center in Flo's house) said she knows little about.
Charlene McGuire (née Markota): one of Cathy's best friends and really her cousin, receptionist at her office. Charlene's role expanded greatly once Andrea got married. Charlene announced her pregnancy on Sunday, May 20, 2007.
Simon: Charlene's husband. He and Cathy dated ten times before she decided that he wasn't for her. But (at first) Cathy was adamant that Charlene should have adhered to the "woman's rules" one of which is to never date a woman's old boyfriend. He and Charlene broke up briefly, which led to both her and Cathy signing up for video dating, but they eventually got back together.
Irving Hillman: former on-again-off-again love interest, golf and electronics addict and her husband as of February 5, 2005. The more complex the machinery, the better he liked itâeven if he did not understand how to set it up.
Mr. Earl Pinkley: Cathy's boss, who often managed to make what little control he actually had of his work environment go a very long way. At one point, he sexually harassed Cathy by coming on to her in her apartment. Cathy solved the problem by telling Charlene what really happened and the gossip about her boss "spending the night" (he forgot to mention it was due to the fact that he was knocked out when Cathy punched him in the nose).
Mrs Hillman (née Polanski): Irving's mother who treated him like a "king". Did everything in her power to aggravate Cathy, especially regarding the 2007 Hillman family reunion.
Mr. Hillman: Irving's father. He seemed content to let his wife do all the talking.
Mabel represented multiple people (she was usually seen as the salesperson at any given store). She seemed to work at every single store, bank, travel agency etc. that Cathy or other characters went to (including Andrea's nurse when she had Zenith) and always had a pencil in her hair. She was easily aggravated by Cathy and vice versa. She sometimes had a co-worker with her. In at least one strip, the co-worker was referred to as Edith.
Emerson was one of the first boyfriends introduced (Irving was first) when the strip debuted. He pursued Cathy who figured she could do better and irritated Irving. He was eventually dropped in favor of Irving, but is often mentioned in Cathy's list of those she dated.
Many, many men that Cathy dated briefly.
Animated Specials
Main Article: CATHY (TV SPECIAL)
Three animated specials were made from the strip: Cathy, Cathy's Last Resort and Cathy's Valentine. All aired on CBS, and the former won Guisewite an Emmy Award.
the Four Basic Guilt Groups
Defined by Cathy Guisewite, the four basic guilt groups are four types of temptation that the character Cathy faces in her daily life.
Food
Cathy had a love/hate affair with food (especially carbs). She loved it, but hated what it did to her thighs. She was visibly overweight, but not obese; she was often shown in a department store fitting room trying to stuff herself into a bathing suit. She was constantly on a diet, weighed herself obsessively and many mornings feared to get up, believing that she had ballooned overnight. Cathy was particularly fond of chocolate, pizza, and her mother's cooking (including her aunt's homemade nut rolls every Christmas, evidence of Cathy being of part Croatian descent, her mother's maiden name being Martucci).
Love
Cathy had dated extensively, but was unable to find "Mr. Right". Although a number of love interests had come and gone over the years, none had come back like Irving, who had left her initially due to her dislike of cats. Later in the series, they finally marry.
At the end of the comic series, Irving and Cathy find out that they are expecting a child.
Mom
Although well-meaning, Mom's advice often frustrated Cathy, whether or not Mom was right. Cathy and her mother were from two different generations: Cathy grew up in the era of feminism, women's rights, and the sexual revolution. Mom was from the earlier, more conservative World War IIâ1950s era. Although an equal in her marriage to Cathy's Dad, Mom held many old-fashioned ideas. Prior to Cathy's marriage, she seemed to have an obsession with seeing Cathy married, right down to keeping a current copy of Bride magazine in her purse and going as far as trying to send Christmas cards to some of Cathy's ex-boyfriends, one of whom was incarcerated for swindling investors, until Cathy stopped her.
Work
Cathy had to juggle many tasks at Product Testing, Inc. Her boss, Mr. Pinkley, often asked the impossible, and Cathy always seems to pull through in the end and give him and the client exactly what they wanted, albeit with quite a bit of drama. Cathy also worked at Jamba Juice. She was fired for bringing home smoothies for her cats. She also had numerous other jobs including as a nurse, social worker, pop musician.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2-5 days or more to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 10 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
Cathy
Author(s) Cathy Guisewite
Current status/schedule Concluded daily strip
Launch date November 22, 1976
End date October 3, 2010
Syndicate(s) Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick
Genre(s) Humor, gag-a-day
Cathy is an American gag-a-day comic strip, drawn by Cathy Guisewite from 1976 until 2010. The comic is about a woman, Cathy, who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of lifeâfood, love, family, and work. The strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. The strip debuted on November 22, 1976, and appeared in over 1,400 newspapers at its peak. The strips have been compiled into more than 20 books. Three television specials were also created. Guisewite received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award in 1992 for the strip.
History
Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman. "The syndicate felt it would make the strip more relatable if the character's name and my name were the same," Guisewite said in an interview. "They felt it would make it a more personal strip, and it would help people to know it was a real woman who was going through these things. I hated the idea of calling it 'Cathy.'" However, Guisewite had Cathy's longtime boyfriend Irving propose marriage on Valentine's Day 2004. The two characters married in the February 5, 2005 strip. That same year, Cathy appeared in the 75th anniversary party of Blondie and Dagwood.
On August 11, 2010, Cathy Guisewite announced the decision to end the run of Cathy. On October 3, 2010, the final strip ran, with the revelation that Cathy is pregnant with a girl.
On June 1, 2020, Cathy Commiserations began on GoComics. The earliest strip was dated March 15, 2020.
Main Characters
Cathy Andrews Hillman (born Katharine Marianna Martucci): the protagonist of the strip and the only one not shown with a nose (although a small one was occasionally seen in side views). Cathy is also the only character that does not have beady eyes; instead, hers are drawn in an inverted heart-shape.
Andrea: initially Cathy's feminist foil and best friend and really her younger sister (Cathy was the eldest of four children, all girls), Andrea's role was reduced in the later years. Andrea is married to Luke, whom she met during an on-line chat, and has two children, Zenith and Gus, who grew from infants to uninhibited teens (not seen in the strips), illustratingâespecially Zenithâthat the characters do age, albeit very slowly. With Zenith, Andrea was obsessed with motherhood, to the point of eating special diets while pregnant and playing music on headphones into her pregnant womb to ensure her baby was born with a high IQ, and then bonding so tightly with Zenith that she understood her baby babble perfectly. Gus, however, entered a playgroup and she did not have as strong a connection with him (which initially left her distraught).
Electra: Cathy's dogârescued from the animal shelter as a puppy.
Vivian: Irving's dogâalso a rescue dog from the shelter. Both Cathy and Irving said that the dogs rescued them.
Anne (Annamaria) Andrews (née Martucci): Cathy's mother. Just as likely to provide frustration as inspiration. Refused to throw anything out, even online. Was highly marriage obsessed and was constantly either asking Cathy when she was getting married or trying to fix her up.
Bill Andrews (born Willy Baba): Cathy's father. More often than not, a helpless bystander to Cathy's mom. Cathy went to him when she needed advice about work, something Cathy's mom (even though she had created jobsâM.O.Ms, Mothers on the Move, or Granny Nannies, the daycare center in Flo's house) said she knows little about.
Charlene McGuire (née Markota): one of Cathy's best friends and really her cousin, receptionist at her office. Charlene's role expanded greatly once Andrea got married. Charlene announced her pregnancy on Sunday, May 20, 2007.
Simon: Charlene's husband. He and Cathy dated ten times before she decided that he wasn't for her. But (at first) Cathy was adamant that Charlene should have adhered to the "woman's rules" one of which is to never date a woman's old boyfriend. He and Charlene broke up briefly, which led to both her and Cathy signing up for video dating, but they eventually got back together.
Irving Hillman: former on-again-off-again love interest, golf and electronics addict and her husband as of February 5, 2005. The more complex the machinery, the better he liked itâeven if he did not understand how to set it up.
Mr. Earl Pinkley: Cathy's boss, who often managed to make what little control he actually had of his work environment go a very long way. At one point, he sexually harassed Cathy by coming on to her in her apartment. Cathy solved the problem by telling Charlene what really happened and the gossip about her boss "spending the night" (he forgot to mention it was due to the fact that he was knocked out when Cathy punched him in the nose).
Mrs Hillman (née Polanski): Irving's mother who treated him like a "king". Did everything in her power to aggravate Cathy, especially regarding the 2007 Hillman family reunion.
Mr. Hillman: Irving's father. He seemed content to let his wife do all the talking.
Mabel represented multiple people (she was usually seen as the salesperson at any given store). She seemed to work at every single store, bank, travel agency etc. that Cathy or other characters went to (including Andrea's nurse when she had Zenith) and always had a pencil in her hair. She was easily aggravated by Cathy and vice versa. She sometimes had a co-worker with her. In at least one strip, the co-worker was referred to as Edith.
Emerson was one of the first boyfriends introduced (Irving was first) when the strip debuted. He pursued Cathy who figured she could do better and irritated Irving. He was eventually dropped in favor of Irving, but is often mentioned in Cathy's list of those she dated.
Many, many men that Cathy dated briefly.
Animated Specials
Main Article: CATHY (TV SPECIAL)
Three animated specials were made from the strip: Cathy, Cathy's Last Resort and Cathy's Valentine. All aired on CBS, and the former won Guisewite an Emmy Award.
the Four Basic Guilt Groups
Defined by Cathy Guisewite, the four basic guilt groups are four types of temptation that the character Cathy faces in her daily life.
Food
Cathy had a love/hate affair with food (especially carbs). She loved it, but hated what it did to her thighs. She was visibly overweight, but not obese; she was often shown in a department store fitting room trying to stuff herself into a bathing suit. She was constantly on a diet, weighed herself obsessively and many mornings feared to get up, believing that she had ballooned overnight. Cathy was particularly fond of chocolate, pizza, and her mother's cooking (including her aunt's homemade nut rolls every Christmas, evidence of Cathy being of part Croatian descent, her mother's maiden name being Martucci).
Love
Cathy had dated extensively, but was unable to find "Mr. Right". Although a number of love interests had come and gone over the years, none had come back like Irving, who had left her initially due to her dislike of cats. Later in the series, they finally marry.
At the end of the comic series, Irving and Cathy find out that they are expecting a child.
Mom
Although well-meaning, Mom's advice often frustrated Cathy, whether or not Mom was right. Cathy and her mother were from two different generations: Cathy grew up in the era of feminism, women's rights, and the sexual revolution. Mom was from the earlier, more conservative World War IIâ1950s era. Although an equal in her marriage to Cathy's Dad, Mom held many old-fashioned ideas. Prior to Cathy's marriage, she seemed to have an obsession with seeing Cathy married, right down to keeping a current copy of Bride magazine in her purse and going as far as trying to send Christmas cards to some of Cathy's ex-boyfriends, one of whom was incarcerated for swindling investors, until Cathy stopped her.
Work
Cathy had to juggle many tasks at Product Testing, Inc. Her boss, Mr. Pinkley, often asked the impossible, and Cathy always seems to pull through in the end and give him and the client exactly what they wanted, albeit with quite a bit of drama. Cathy also worked at Jamba Juice. She was fired for bringing home smoothies for her cats. She also had numerous other jobs including as a nurse, social worker, pop musician.
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out first class or priority mail which takes 2-5 days or more to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 5 - 10 days depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i will do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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