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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 12:16 AM
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Well, the comic strip "Cathy" has ended.
The last strip was yesterday, and it went out with a bang.

Cathy announces to her parents she's pregnant. :boring:
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 12:20 AM
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1. Good riddance.
A more thorough waste of newsprint I've never seen.
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 09:32 PM
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21. +1.
I can finally get a break from my mother asking my better half if she's seen the latest Cathy.

Holy FUCK, I hated that strip.
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 12:41 AM
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2. So it didn't end with Hagar the Horrible mangling her to death?
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 12:45 AM
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3. I surprised myself
I actually choked up reading that last strip. While I was never a huge Cathy fan, when it first came out, it was refreshing to see a female protagonist that wasn't a housewife, a star reporter or some little girl.

I pretty much stopped caring about the comics page around the time that Bloom County went away.

Just the same, if I controlled the world, Marian Henley's Maxine would still be in print.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 01:16 AM
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4. Bloom County was a treasure
I didn't discover it until years after it was over. Loved it, reread the compilations many many times.

I miss Bloom County :-(
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 01:42 AM
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5. I could just imagine Bloom County and Smirky...
I don't think Bush would have survived the savage satire. :-)

Bloom County is available on-line, BTW.

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/classic-bloom-county
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 08:52 PM
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19. Bloom County, Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes
Miss them all... The only print comic I read anymore is FoxTrot on Sundays.
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HoneychildMooseMoss Donating Member (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 06:37 AM
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22. I loved Bloom County, too
I even liked the songs by Billy and the Boingers-- We're the Boingers, and U Stink but I Luv U
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 07:49 AM
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23. +1,000. Bloom County was one in a million.
I already have two volumes of the complete library and will be pre-ordering Volume 3 (out October 26) -

http://www.amazon.com/Bloom-County-Complete-Library/dp/1600107559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286282954&sr=8-1
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 09:39 AM
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6. AACK!
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 10:28 AM
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7. They should have finished with her spinning head spitting up pea soup.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 10:33 AM
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8. And thank that fucking awful thing is finally put in the coffin. "I'm fat - ACK! Ice cream time!"
and then the next day's is "ACK! I'm fat because I ate ice cream! Ack! My job sucks! I'll eat ice cream!"

ad nauseum.

Stupid, stupid, stupid fucking comic that was rarely "comic", and most of the time just fucking ignorant.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 10:50 AM
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9. Hope Garfield joins her
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 07:51 AM
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24. A comics page free of Garfield will be MORE than welcome.
THAT's a useless waste of space, right there. Garfield minus Garfield blows it away.
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 02:15 PM
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26. I'd rather see Garfield over The Family Circus.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 10:59 AM
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10. well, it did chronicle some pretty accurate aspects of being female
Edited on Mon Oct-04-10 11:00 AM by tigereye
career woman, changes over time, hilarious neuroses and family relationships, and highly accurate shopping jokes and commentaries. I never laughed as hard as I did over some of her comments about women's fashions.


As annoying as she could be at times, I will miss the comic. And she made a great living out of it. That has to count for something.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:04 AM
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12. I'm with you, my dear tigereye...
I did enjoy it too. Even though she could be annoying, there was a lot there that was accurate for many women.

And the last strip was really moving.

:hi:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:08 AM
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13. I thought so too, Peggy, after all her starts and stops with Irving!
Edited on Mon Oct-04-10 11:09 AM by tigereye

But I still have one strip somewhere that made fun of the size of women's purses, and I have never laughed so hard at a comic strip as I did at that one.


There really weren't that many well-known "feminist" comic strips- I can't remember the name of the other one. Wait! It was Sylvia. I don't know if that one is still out there or not.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:02 AM
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11. Well, we'll always have
http://www.gocomics.com/loveis/
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:31 AM
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14. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Edited on Mon Oct-04-10 11:31 AM by KamaAina
:cry: :cry: :cry:

:sarcasm:

Pregnant? :wtf: I didn't realize she ever, y'know, fooled around.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 02:57 PM
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16. She didn't
But you don't want to know how it happened. And it will get this thread locked. And would probably get me tombstoned for gross insensitivity. And cause not a few DUers to laugh. And then feel guilty for laughing.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:32 AM
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15. Last one:
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Tanuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 01:00 PM
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25. Hmmm...the ending leaves it open for a "sequel" comic strip
featuring the next generation, if the cartoonist changes her mind and decides to come out of retirement someday...
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 03:58 PM
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17. She's kind of like a more complicated Ziggy
:shrug:
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 07:04 PM
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18. Thank god. That stereotypical shopaholic at the mall every day
drove me crazy. She made women look like idiots.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 08:57 PM
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20. Guisewite's wit was matched only by her draftsmanship
good riddance
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 03:15 PM
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27. ACK!
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