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Summary: Cathy lovers will enjoy this collection
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If you've been following Cathy for the past twenty years or even if you haven't (and I haven't... I've only done so for the last 4 and a half), you'll enjoy this look back at some of the highlights in this long-running strip.
Punctuating this plethora of cartoon memories, starting from 1976, are short commentaries by Guisewite herself on Cathy and her place in the social order of that period of time.
So if you like Cathy, and you're interested in seeing what Cathy has looked like during the years, from Guisewite's crude earlier strips, to today's more refined Cathy, you'll want to get a copy of this collection.
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Summary: A Military Blunder.
Review: Cathy has decided to join the military. After a few short years as a combat engineer, Cathy is sent to the Persian Gulf for her tour in Desert Storm. Disgruntled at what goes on in the tents during the war she decides to get out of the Military alltogether. She felt betrayed that none of her fellow soldiers never crept into her tent at night, both male and female. "Why is everyone having such a great time in this war and not me?", proclaims Cathy. One of the other soldiers has a response to that question by saying, "You are such a slug that no one wants to be with you".
After Desert Storm Cathy gets out of the Army. She is bitter about her experience in the war and blames the US government for the world's problems. She decides to plot revenge on the Feds by moving to Ruby Ridge, Idaho. It is here that she learns her new views on the corruption of the US government. While here she gets into a fierce gunbattle with the FBI, she was accused or having a stockpile of illegal weapons. She was also put on the FBI's most wanted criminal list, a list no one wants to be associated with. She manages to escape the Feds, but at a huge cost. She loses her left pinky and this causes Cathy to grieve and hit the sauce.
After soul searching Cathy decides to change her religion from Christian Science to Islam. She gets caught up in fundamental radicalism.She changes her name to Abdula Al Mohamed. She still harbors memories of the Persian Gulf War and wants to get revenge on the US. So she claims to go Jihad on all those who get in her way. Any US Fed worker is her target. She tries to take out a few with dire results. Eventually, Cathy is caught and sent to jail and is given the death sentence. From here on we see the usual display of Cathy's love life. She has found a new lover in Celest, another female inmate. This is a disturbing book.
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Summary: Wonderful Cathy -- Past! Present! Future?
Review: For a useful look into Cathy's past, and her gradual growth (riiiight) this book is a must. It charts from the early, basic strips upon which many of the present ones have grown from, to the current form of Cathy who is more polished and more refined in appearance, but she's still the same neurotic wreck we know and love. We see Cathy Guisewite's "energetically primitive" style change into a more ordinary, refined drawing style (all cartoonists do this) and enjoy her hilarious comments interspersed amid them. Though all of the strips are from previous books, there are probably some you missed, and they're arranged so pleasingly that you don't care if they've been done. This book is a gem!
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Summary: The women in my family
Review: I grew up listening to my mother & aunts complaints about the joys & frustrations of been a full time working women/mom/wife/girlfriend ect.Cathy was part of our life back them & today. My mom is not a wife anymore she is a girlfriend now & my aunts are single & Married moms trying to figure out what is best for their kids, having a working mom or PTA mom. Cathy make us laugh when we though that crying was the only thing we could do,I dated like she did,I did stupid diets like she did but I survived like she did. With class & "dignity"
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Summary: The women in my family
Review: I grew up listening to my mother & aunts complaints about the joys & frustrations of been a full time working women/mom/wife/girlfriend ect.Cathy was part of our life back them & today. My mom is not a wife anymore she is a girlfriend now & my aunts are single & Married moms trying to figure out what is best for their kids, having a working mom or PTA mom. Cathy make us laugh when we though that crying was the only thing we could do,I dated like she did,I did stupid diets like she did but I survived like she did. With class & "dignity"
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Summary: This book is every aspect of every woman in America today.
Review: I loved this book. Cathy is gone forward, backward, and sometimes sideways in an attempt to find the man of her dreams. I found myself in the comics at times and wondered, what was I thinking? Now the only thing I'm wondering, did she marry Irvin or her dog?
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