No, not really. Not in the least. She belongs in the chest up in the attic with the flare-bottom jumpsuit and the mood ring.

But while we are on the subject of comic strips, may I make a personal request? Please stop clipping out the Larsens, the Dilberts, the Rubes, the Cathys, etc. and taping them up for everyone else at work to enjoy. No one does. Not as much as you, at any rate. Otherwise, they'd be taping it up too, right?

I've seen comics strips brown as dried tobacco still taped up for everyone to enjoy day in and day out, every day. Question: How long do you think that shit's supposed to be funny? Stop it!

I will miss her nose.

No:

1.workworkwork! :(
2.nowitstimeforshopping! :P
3.letmejusttryonthisbikin...aww!imtoofat! :(
4.mmm!chompchompchomp!

x-infinity

Cathy had some relevance (and I swear, was less screechy) in the 70s when women were first taking the "career woman" role and negotiating that role in a male-dominated culture - think Mary Tyler Moore, but 2-D and for the family newspaper. Her strips were about office politics and dating and dealing with mom's more traditional expectations for her daughter. I don't think, as TVDinner states, that 90% of women over 50 working in office loves Cathy now, but I bet most of them loved Cathy then.

Now, Cathy is all "I love chocolate" and "my thighs are fat" and well past her prime (in a comic strip sense, not that Cathy, the character, is past her prime. She remains delightfully 30 years old, forever). This does make me sad that Andy Sandberg will have to give up his Cathy impression.

I will only miss making fun of it.

Aack! I think she lost all integrity by getting married.

Nice job beating slog to this one by 4 hours!

*snicker* No.

and

Only in my immature past when I needed to feel like hating on humanity... and art.

Serious and non-snarky answer: I had no idea it was still running.

I guess I won't.

I never read Cathy much, but I never detested it. Maybe it's because I read it in short spurts that I didn't mind it. Most newspaper comics suck, anyway.

I hate that strip-- I've always thought it seems archaic (yes, I'm practically a child) and fairly demeaning to women. Of course, I haven't read a regular newspaper since I moved to Seattle 5 years ago, so I guess its disappearance from the comics will have no effect upon me.