Only Love Can Break a Heart, But a Shoe Sale Can Come Close: A Cathy Collection

Cathy #14

by Cathy Guisewite

Only Love Can Break a Heart, But a Shoe Sale Can Come Close --is a batch of giggles and "ouches" for millions of adoring Cathy fans. Why do they love her so? "Because," said a noted sociologist, "one thing never changes--it"s still very important that you look good in a bathing suit!"

Cathy has become the symbol for single career women. Her painfully funny glimpses of women's angst.

Genres: Comics, Humor

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Cathy Lee Guisewite 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.

Reviews

[Flora · Rating 3 out of 5]

A witty and honest account of a middle-aged single woman as she navigates through the rough seas of romance, work, and shoe sales.

Actually, it's quite fascinating to see how social norms regarding single women in each of these arenas (love, career, finances) have changed, evolved, or perhaps become more complicated since this book was written. (I, for one, had never heard of "video dating" before, but it's not unlike online matchmaking... without the internet.)

Reading this book thus not only provides a glimpse into Cathy's life, but also the social pressures surrounding women less than a few decades ago, and provides an interesting reflection into how things have changed - or perhaps stayed the same - over time.

[Lorene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Almost 40 years later, Cathy totally holds up. Aack!! Never goes out of style.

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always a fun time and a blast from my past.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best Cathy collections in the series!

[Krystie Herndon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anything that gives me consistent laughs, in this decidedly not-funny world, gets 5 stars.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Either "Cathy" hasn't aged well, or I've grown up a lot since I last read a Cathy book. The second star only appears because of a few strips featuring Andrea and dealing with child care at the end that did make me kind of laugh a little. Otherwise, too many unfunny strips about weight, relationship games and female jealousy.

I bought this from a sale bin years ago and just found it again when cleaning up my bookshelves. Glad to now have that space available for another book.

[Chamie]

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