She's Leaving Home. Bye Bye, Cathy.
Hello, hello, hello!
Well, today marks a very sad milestone in the world of comic strips, especially for fans of Cathy. You know her. She's the character with the long, brown hair and no nose, and kinda, well, "pleasingly plump." Yeah. You know her. Remember that classic Beatles' song, "She's Leaving Home"? Well, today, Cathy's leaving her comic strip home. After thirty four years in the comic strip section of this nation's newspapers (including my hometown paper, The Los Angeles Times), Cathy's comic strip will run today for the very last time. Her creator, who's also named Cathy (Cathy Guisewite) has decided to call it quits. Wanted to spend more time with her family, from what I've heard. I can imagine how much hard work it is to dedicate all of your life to drawing and writing one comic strip, seven days a week. Still, we all are going to miss her. Cathy was one of my favorite strips. She made us laugh as she made her way through a world which really doesn't understand ordinary people, but she also made us think as well. I guess those are the most important comic strips of all. Those that make us think as well as laugh. Take Peanuts, for example. That comic strip showed us all, for the very first time, how children really are, as opposed to what grownups would want them to be. And Calvin And Hobbs, which showed us all how a child's fantasy world and the adult real world were intricately interwoven. And the one and only Opus, who, although he was a penguin, also represented the Everyperson as poignant, as as wittingly funny, as Cathy did.
I would also like to say goodbye to three very important people in the entertainment industry whom we also lost this past week: Stephen J. Cannell, the co creator of The Rockford Files and the creator of The A Team, The Greatest American Hero, and 21 Jump Street; Tony Curtis, who proved that you can have good looks and great acting capabilities at the same time ( and ho was the dad of Halloween star, Jamie Lee Curtis); and the notorious Eddie Fisher, who was more known (to younger fans anyway) for his failed marriages to Debbie Renoylds and Elizabeth Tayor than for his great sing voice. To all of these legends, as well as to the immortal Cathy, we would like to say, hail and farewell.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next week, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, today marks a very sad milestone in the world of comic strips, especially for fans of Cathy. You know her. She's the character with the long, brown hair and no nose, and kinda, well, "pleasingly plump." Yeah. You know her. Remember that classic Beatles' song, "She's Leaving Home"? Well, today, Cathy's leaving her comic strip home. After thirty four years in the comic strip section of this nation's newspapers (including my hometown paper, The Los Angeles Times), Cathy's comic strip will run today for the very last time. Her creator, who's also named Cathy (Cathy Guisewite) has decided to call it quits. Wanted to spend more time with her family, from what I've heard. I can imagine how much hard work it is to dedicate all of your life to drawing and writing one comic strip, seven days a week. Still, we all are going to miss her. Cathy was one of my favorite strips. She made us laugh as she made her way through a world which really doesn't understand ordinary people, but she also made us think as well. I guess those are the most important comic strips of all. Those that make us think as well as laugh. Take Peanuts, for example. That comic strip showed us all, for the very first time, how children really are, as opposed to what grownups would want them to be. And Calvin And Hobbs, which showed us all how a child's fantasy world and the adult real world were intricately interwoven. And the one and only Opus, who, although he was a penguin, also represented the Everyperson as poignant, as as wittingly funny, as Cathy did.
I would also like to say goodbye to three very important people in the entertainment industry whom we also lost this past week: Stephen J. Cannell, the co creator of The Rockford Files and the creator of The A Team, The Greatest American Hero, and 21 Jump Street; Tony Curtis, who proved that you can have good looks and great acting capabilities at the same time ( and ho was the dad of Halloween star, Jamie Lee Curtis); and the notorious Eddie Fisher, who was more known (to younger fans anyway) for his failed marriages to Debbie Renoylds and Elizabeth Tayor than for his great sing voice. To all of these legends, as well as to the immortal Cathy, we would like to say, hail and farewell.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next week, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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