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Cathy Guisewite decides to end her 'Cathy' comic strip

Los Angeles : CA : USA | Aug 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM PDT
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The iconic Cathy strip, which gained immense popularity among the readers, is about to say goodbye.

It has been announced by Comic strip queen, Cathy Guisewite yesterday that her amazing Cathy strip will end this October after 34 years.

The Ad writer, Cathy Guisewite moved up the ladder of fame due to the interesting ‘Cathy' strip, which started in 1976. The strip writer Cathy Guisewite will turn 60 next month and is one of the very few women who chose comic writing as her career.

The title character of career-woman created by Cathy Guisewite spoke regarding her anxiety at workplace and personal relationships, at the mall and on the bathroom scale.

The comic strip played a huge part in the success of Cathy Guisewite and the decision to hang it up was really agonizing for her. The ‘Cathy' comic strip, which is distributed to 1200 newspapers worldwide, will finally end on October 3rd.

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    Wednesday the final strip will run in newspapers on Sunday, Oct. 3. Guisewite says it took her about a year to reach the decision to end the strip she's been creating since 1976. She said the decision process was "excruciating" but that...
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