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Cathy #21
Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet
America's favorite comic strip heroine shares her passion for footwear in this hilarious collection.
Like best friends who've been together year after year, through thick and thin, Cathy and her adoring public have created a solid and stable relationship. Faithful readers count on their cartoon heroine to tell it like it is, whether the subject is relationships, shopping, or parental responsibilities.
In Chocolate for the Feet, women immediately comprehend this connection between two of Cathy's downfalls-food and shopping. Cathy continues to battle the bulge, constantly losing the tug-of-war between her thin clothes and a well-stocked refrigerator. Millions of women have hilariously identified with Cathy's struggles with the four basic guilt food, love, mother, and career.
Like best friends who've been together year after year, through thick and thin, Cathy and her adoring public have created a solid and stable relationship. Faithful readers count on their cartoon heroine to tell it like it is, whether the subject is relationships, shopping, or parental responsibilities.
In Chocolate for the Feet, women immediately comprehend this connection between two of Cathy's downfalls-food and shopping. Cathy continues to battle the bulge, constantly losing the tug-of-war between her thin clothes and a well-stocked refrigerator. Millions of women have hilariously identified with Cathy's struggles with the four basic guilt food, love, mother, and career.
110 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2000
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About the author
Cathy Guisewite
108 books153 followersCathy 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.
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.
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December 29, 2019
I can’t remember where I first heard of long-running comic strip Cathy, featuring a single woman with an obsession with clothes, her weight and romance, but I am pretty sure it was referenced pretty savagely on some American sitcom or other. (I know. Pot, kettle, right?)
So, of course, I wanted to check it out for myself.
If this collection is any indication, then that forgotten quip was right on the money. Cathy is indeed obsessed with clothes, her weight and romance, and while she is occasionally relatable, and even occasionally raises a slight smile, the fact that this strip was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers from 1976 right up until 2010, and that Cathy was still lovelorn and bewildered as late as the 1990s (which is when these strips were published, which means there is a lot of discussion of this newfangled Internet thing) is absolutely astonishing.
So, now I know. And next time this comic strip comes up as a punchline in some sitcom rerun, I will totally get it.
Not sure it was worth it, though.
So, of course, I wanted to check it out for myself.
If this collection is any indication, then that forgotten quip was right on the money. Cathy is indeed obsessed with clothes, her weight and romance, and while she is occasionally relatable, and even occasionally raises a slight smile, the fact that this strip was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers from 1976 right up until 2010, and that Cathy was still lovelorn and bewildered as late as the 1990s (which is when these strips were published, which means there is a lot of discussion of this newfangled Internet thing) is absolutely astonishing.
So, now I know. And next time this comic strip comes up as a punchline in some sitcom rerun, I will totally get it.
Not sure it was worth it, though.
February 18, 2022
Something light to read in the midst of all the world's horrible events.
June 6, 2022
Sometimes it's nice to read a comic about women written by a woman that deal with the experiences of women. While I'm sure there are others, Cathy comics are the only ones I know like this.
April 12, 2023
I had forgotten how much I love "Cathy"...written nearly 25 years ago, the only thing dated in the content ...prices! Enjoyed!
February 10, 2010
I loved it! Very funny! :)
December 16, 2011
Better than I thought it would be. As much as I love the early Cathy stuff, the later stuff gets boring and repetitive. At least these had more plot than just shopping & dieting
October 1, 2014
A funny comic book. I don't actually relate to the character only that she is funny.
January 1, 2026
Banda Desenhada bem disposta, com comentários certeiros sobre o mundo e a vida, que lembram muito bem o que é ser mulher (no caso da Cathy, mulher solteira) nos dias que correm!
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