Cathy Twentieth Anniversary Collection: Volume 17

I loved the books, both the anniversary one and Cathy & Irving's wedding. Great wit and sense of humor from Cathy Guisewite.

I grew up listening to my mother & aunts complaints about the joys & frustrations of been a full time working women/mom/wife/girlfriend ect.Cathy was part of our life back them & today. My mom is not a wife anymore she is a girlfriend now & my aunts are single & Married moms trying to figure out what is best for their kids, having a working mom or PTA mom. Cathy make us laugh when we though that crying was the only thing we could do,I dated like she did,I did stupid diets like she did but I survived like she did. With class & "dignity"

For a useful look into Cathy's past, and her gradual growth (riiiight) this book is a must. It charts from the early, basic strips upon which many of the present ones have grown from, to the current form of Cathy who is more polished and more refined in appearance, but she's still the same neurotic wreck we know and love. We see Cathy Guisewite's "energetically primitive" style change into a more ordinary, refined drawing style (all cartoonists do this) and enjoy her hilarious comments interspersed amid them. Though all of the strips are from previous books, there are probably some you missed, and they're arranged so pleasingly that you don't care if they've been done. This book is a gem!

I loved this book. Cathy is gone forward, backward, and sometimes sideways in an attempt to find the man of her dreams. I found myself in the comics at times and wondered, what was I thinking? Now the only thing I'm wondering, did she marry Irvin or her dog?

If you've been following Cathy for the past twenty years or even if you haven't (and I haven't... I've only done so for the last 4 and a half), you'll enjoy this look back at some of the highlights in this long-running strip. Punctuating this plethora of cartoon memories, starting from 1976, are short commentaries by Guisewite herself on Cathy and her place in the social order of that period of time. So if you like Cathy, and you're interested in seeing what Cathy has looked like during the years, from Guisewite's crude earlier strips, to today's more refined Cathy, you'll want to get a copy of this collection.