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Cathy Guisewite (Cathy Lee Guisewite) was born on 5 September, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio, is an American cartoonist (born 1950). Discover Cathy Guisewite's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 5 September, 1950
Birthday 5 September
Birthplace Dayton, Ohio
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Christopher Wilkinson (m. 1997–2011)

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1950

Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run.

The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups."

Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio to William L.. and Anne Guisewite.

She was raised in Midland, Michigan with older sister Mary Anne Nagy and younger sister Mickey.

1968

Guisewite graduated from Midland High School in 1968.

She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.

1972

In 1972, she earned a bachelor's degree in English.

After college, Guisewite followed her father's vocation and began working in advertising at Campbell-Ewald, then Norman Prady, and settled at W.B. Doner & Co. near Detroit.

1976

She became a vice president of the firm in 1976.

She continued to draw funny pictures as an "emotional coping mechanism" to events in her life and work, and she would forward them to her parents.

Her mother kept urging her to send them to a publisher, so she did.

"My entire goal with my submission package was to get my mother off my back. My goal was not to do a comic strip. It was to make Mom quit telling me I could do a comic strip."

Guisewite was flabbergasted when the company sent her a contract to produce a comic strip.

Cathy was syndicated to 66 newspapers in 1976 by Universal Press Syndicate, now Universal Uclick, and Guisewite did both—her advertising job during the day, and comics at night.

1980

By 1980, the strip was carried by 150 dailies, she was earning $50,000 per year for Cathy, she quit the advertising business to work on Cathy full-time, and she moved to Santa Barbara, California.

The comic strip was a "running social commentary" for her confusion.

Guisewite explained, "You were a liberated woman or you were a traditionalist. To even voice vulnerability if you were a feminist was wrong and to voice interest in liberation if you were a more traditional woman was wrong. So I believe the women I was speaking to in the early years of my strip were women like me, who were at that age in our 20s where we were kind of launched into adulthood with a foot in both worlds and no way to really express it.”

Guisewite appeared several times as a guest on the late night TV series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

1983

When Kasdan's movie The Big Chill (1983) opened, Guisewite devoted an entire week of Cathy strips to it, with Cathy and her co-workers enthusing over the film and seeing it repeatedly.

1987

In 1987, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special Cathy.

1990

At the peak of the strip's popularity in the mid-1990s, it appeared in almost 1,400 papers.

1992

Guisewite adopted daughter Ivy in 1992, then married screenwriter Christopher Wilkinson in 1997.

Wilkinson has a son, Cooper, but the couple had no children together.

1993

Guisewite is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and received in 1993 its highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, for her work in 1992.

Guisewite has been granted honorary degrees from Russell Sage College, Rhode Island College, and Eastern Michigan University.

2010

However, on August 11, 2010, Guisewite announced the strip's retirement after 34 years.

Its run ended on October 3, 2010 (a Sunday strip).

Guisewite and Wilkinson divorced in 2010.

One of Guisewite's classmates at the University of Michigan was screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan.