Cathy Guisewite

Infobox Comics creator
name = Cathy Guisewite


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caption = Cathy Guisewite in 1987, holding her Emmy Award
birthname = Cathy Lee Guisewite
birthdate = birth date|1950|9|5|mf=y
location = Dayton, Ohio, USA
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nationality = American
area = Cartoonist
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notable works = "Cathy"
awards = 1987 Emmy Award
1993 Reuben Award

Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) is the cartoonist who created the comic strip "Cathy" in 1976. Her main cartoon character (Cathy) is a career woman faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as Guisewite herself put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups."

Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Midland, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Guisewite received her bachelor's degree in English in 1972. She also holds seven honorary degrees.

In 1993, Guisewite received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society. In 1987, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special "Cathy", which aired on CBS. Guisewite was a frequent guest in the latter years of the "Tonight Show with Johnny Carson".

Guisewite and her husband Chris Wilkinson reside in Los Angeles. She has a daughter and a stepson.

One of Guisewite's classmates at University of Michigan was Lawrence Kasdan. When Kasdan's movie "The Big Chill" opened, Guisewite devoted an entire week of "Cathy" strips to this movie, with her character Cathy and Cathy's co-workers all enthusing over the film and seeing it repeatedly.

External links

*" [http://cartoon.org/guisewit.htm Cathy Guisewite] " at the International Museum of Cartoon Art
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* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp NCS Awards]
* [http://www.gocomics.com/cathy/bio.phtml Meet Cathy Guisewite at goComics]
* [http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/news/cathy_qa.htm Cathy Guisewite interview at Universal Press Syndicate]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/292/000022226/ Profile at NNDB]