Button Sunday

Love her or hate her, after thirty-four years, today we say goodbye to “Cathy” from Cathy Guisewite’s comic strip.

It’s become fashionable to mock “Cathy,” but hers was the first female-centered comic strip as women began their shift to the workplace during the women’s movement. She wasn’t a super hero, or an orphaned child, or a kindly old busybody who solved problems, just an Every Girl facing the same problems and challenges that her many readers grappled with.

Goodbye, Cathy–and congratulations–I hear you and Irving are expecting a girl!