The Cathy Chronicles

Cathy Guisewite's The Cathy Chronicles is a single-issue comic published by Andrews McMeel in 1979, marking the debut of her iconic character. While the series itself consists of just one issue, it launched a long-running newspaper strip that would become a beloved chronicle of modern womanhood. Guisewite's sharp, relatable humor about career, relationships, and food anxieties resonated so deeply that the strip ran for decades, making this slim volume a foundational piece of late-20th-century pop culture.