Editing Cathy Guisewite (section)

==Career==
After college, Guisewite followed her father's vocation and began working in advertising<ref name=INT>{{cite web|last=Heintjes|first=Tom|title=The Cathy Guisewite Interview|work=Hogan's Alley|date=April 24, 2012|url=https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/cathy-guisewite-the-goodbye-girl/|access-date=5 August 2013}}</ref> at [[Campbell-Ewald]], then Norman Prady, and settled at [[Doner Company|W.B. Doner & Co.]] near Detroit. She became a vice president of the firm in 1976.<ref name=ANSWER>{{cite web |title=Cathy Lee Guisewite|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/cathy-guisewite|website= Answers.com |publisher= Gale Encyclopedia of Biography|access-date=6 August 2013}}</ref>

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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.<ref name=INT /> 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."<ref>{{cite interview| first= Cathy| last= Guisewite| url= https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/cathy-guisewite-the-goodbye-girl/| work= Hogan's Alley| title= The Cathy Guisewite Interview| date= April 24, 2012| interviewer= Tom Heintjes| access-date= September 9, 2016}}</ref>

Guisewite was flabbergasted when the company sent her a contract to produce a comic strip. ''[[Cathy]]'' was syndicated to 66 newspapers in 1976<ref name=CSM>{{cite news|last=Sweeney|first=Louise|title=When life becomes a comic strip|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0313/031358.html|access-date=6 August 2013|newspaper=Christian Science Monitor|date=March 13, 1980}}</ref> by [[Universal Press Syndicate]], now [[Universal Uclick]],<ref name= quits /> and Guisewite did both—her advertising job during the day, and comics at night. By 1980, the strip was carried by 150 dailies, she was earning $50,000 per year for ''Cathy'',<ref name=CSM /> she quit the advertising business to work on ''Cathy'' full-time, and she moved to Santa Barbara, California.<ref name=INT />

The comic strip was a "running social commentary"<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|title=Swimsuit Season's Over. For Good.| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/business/media/16cathy.html?_r=0|access-date=5 August 2013|newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date=August 15, 2010}}</ref> 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.”<ref name=NYT />

Guisewite appeared several times as a guest on the late night TV series ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''.<ref name=IMDB>{{IMDb name|0347535}}</ref>

At the peak of the strip's popularity in the mid-1990s, it appeared in almost 1,400 papers.<ref name=INT /> However, on August 11, 2010, Guisewite announced the strip's retirement after 34 years. Its run ended on October 3, 2010 (a [[Sunday comics|Sunday strip]]).<ref name=quits>{{cite news| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100811/us-cathy-calls-it-quits/| work= [[HuffPost|Huffington Post]] | title= 'Cathy' comic strip ending after 34 years| first= Maria | last= Sudekum Fisher| date= August 11, 2010| agency= [[Associated Press|AP]]| access-date= September 9, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092801689.html?wprss=rss_health&sid=ST2010092801746|title=Cathy Guisewite, creator of 'Cathy' comic, on weight| first=Jennifer |last= LaRue Huget|date=September 30, 2010|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2010-10-10}}</ref>