"Cathy" is ending in October.

[Archae]

Finally. :eyes:

Yes, I didn't like the strip.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11380309

[Iggo]

1. Again?

Or was it all a dream?

[Kali]

2. same

I thought that happened a LONG time ago???

[Common Sense Party]

3. It has never made me laugh. Ever.

[Mudoria]

4. Never liked it at all..

[Deep13]

5. "Irving I'm dead! ACK!" nt

[Moondog]

18. heh

:rofl:

[LeftinOH]

6. -yet Mary Worth keeps going, and nobody reads that one..NOBODY.

[Deep13]

10. As long as no one reads it, they ought to add some spice to the strip.

Like maybe Mary has a Pulp Fiction type gimp in her basement.

[realisticphish]

23. Comics Curmudgeon does

http://joshreads.com/

But only to mock it :D

[Roon]

7. Cathy was too long winded..

for a comic strip.

[Deep13]

8. Right. It's antithetical to the medium.

As much as I agree with him, I have the same observation about Tom Tomorrow's This Modern world. Toles, OTOH, usually nails it with an economy of words.

[joeybee12]

9. Never a fan...never really had a joke...a couple insights here and there

repeated ad nauseum.

[uncommon]

11. Thank god what rubbish.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. "Ack! I'm sad because (man issue/bought swimsuit/job). Must eat ice cream!! Ack! Now I'm fat!"

There - 34 years of that miserable crap summed up in fewer words than that bloviating artless idiot used in any one strip.

[TZ]

16. Yeah who wants to listen to the frustrations of a modern working single woman!

All those stupid bleeps should just keep their mouths shut! :sarcasm:

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Oh, please.

if that's what you took from my post, you should try harder.

Criticism of a hack cartoonist does not equal criticism of a demographic of humanity.

:eyes:

[uncommon]

22. The thing is, Cathy comics are puke-inducing - they don't really speak to my frustrations

as a working single woman, I can tell you that. I always felt like Cathy comics trivialized the frustrations of working women.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. When I read that, my hair stood up and little beads of sweat flew off my head!

Maybe now my paper can carry "Pearls Before Swine." Which they should have done a long time ago. Do we really need to still carry Peanuts 10+ years after Charles Schultz's death? Really?

[realisticphish]

24. better "Classic" Peanuts

then things like Family Circus or Marmaduke... at least Peanuts was GOOD

[MrScorpio]

14. And Mallard Fillmore is still around?

For shame.

[TZ]

15. geezus. Lots of haters here.

For ALOT of working women like me, Cathy was always a good strip because it was so identifiable- the perpetually single women trying to succeed in both life and work. But I guess insight about societies stereotypes of how women should look and act is now considered "tripe trash". :eyes:

[Archae]

17. Try "Freefall"

A working woman in there, Florence Ambrose is the engineer on a spaceship owned by an alien who is a con man, thief, pickpocket, and cheat.
But he's not THAT bad... :-)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. I always like reading all the comics, even the ones others scoff as being "lame"

And yes, that even includes Family Circus, and yes I do agree that Family Circus is lame. But I still read it, out of habit.

I don't know what it is, but reading the comics is one way that I am able to still hold on to a bit of my childhood. Most of them I don't laugh out loud at, but a few of them I do. (I love how Doonesbury skewers Sarah Palin as a talking doll!)

But as I mentioned above, now that Cathy is on its way out, I would love for my paper to start carrying Pearls Before Swine. That's one of the strips that I do laugh out loud for.

[Schema Thing]

29. Me too, but only because my first recognized word was "meanwhile"

written vertically.

[realisticphish]

25. The problem isn't the topics

it's the lack of humor, or creativity. Cathy was the same joke, over and over, for decades. It had its moments, but for the most part was just repetitive. Saying something sucks doesn't necessarily mean that the TOPIC sucks

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. It was fairly clever early on but Guisewite's been phoning it in for 25 years.

Now it's about as relevant as Beetle Bailey.

[MilesColtrane]

26. Please let it end in an orgy of blood and gore.

[Fire Walk With Me]

27. To whom shall we turn to validate our insecurities?

[KamaAina]

28. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

:sarcasm:

[MiddleFingerMom]

30. DAMMIT!!!!!

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Cathy's HOT!!!!!
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Now I'll have to rely on archived Cathy strips for my daily dose of comicporn.
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M-m-m-m-m-m... I said "Cathy strips".
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I'll be in my bunk.
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