My Granddaughter Has Fleas!!

 

By Cathy Guisewite

Life of a single working woman, Cathy, in the 1980s who decides she is finally ready to become, not a mom, but the owner of a dog.

Electra is the new puppy and Cathy soon finds out that having a dog is almost as life-altering as having a baby. 

Meanwhile, her relationship with long-time boyfriend (eight years!) is going nowhere. Cathy wants to be married and Irving just isn't ready. 

I like the Cathy comic strip. I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in over twenty years so I don't even know if the strip is still being published.  But I always enjoyed reading Cathy back when we were getting a daily newspaper. Cathy always seemed kind of miserable and I totally related to that. And I still do.

Cathy Twentieth Anniversary Collection

By Cathy Guisewite

This fun collection, celebrating twenty years of Cathy comic strips, starts out with some of the earliest Cathy strips from 1976 and continues on through 1996, with commentary from the real Cathy.

I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous

By Cathy Guisewite

Daily Cathy comic strips copyrighted 1999.
Cathy loses her regular job when Irving comes back into her life. He arrives at her job hired to "restructure, reoganize ... you know ... redirect the personnel..."
Despite her long past relationship with Irving, he doesn't save her job. Instead she is told will be working from home on a part-time basis and she will be able to freelance. Good bye steady income and benefits!

I really felt for Cathy as she struggled to deal with her new, scary reality. This collection is funny but it also is truth.

$14 In The Bank And A $200 Face In My Purse

By Cathy Guisewite

This collection of Cathy comic strips was published in 1990. In this collection Cathy has her little dog Electra and hasn't been dating her long time boyfriend, Irving for quite awhile. She briefly dates another fellow, Simon, but soon finds him boring. But still gets upset when a friend from work starts seeing Simon after Cathy is no longer interested.
Electra, Cathy's dog, seems sad and Cathy thinks the dog may be missing Irving. So Cathy invites him over and is surprised to find that he has quit his job and gained thirty pounds. Which he proceeds to lose in one day by merely skipping lunch.

Typical Cathy comic, with all the usual struggles with diet, exercise, overeating, overspending and over-dramatizing everything. Familiar territory but still a lot of fun to read.