Food: A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups

Cathy Special Collections

by Cathy Guisewite

Cathy like a longtime friend who shares the same fears and frustrations as most the frightening sight of too-tight swimsuits in a dressing room mirror, the relentless call of the refrigerator, and men who are never quite right. This gift book features one of Cathy's most popular Food. This is a cartoon soul mate. Readers will find comfort, solace, and lots of laughs.

Genres: Comics

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2001

About the author

Cathy Lee Guisewite is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy in 1976. Her main cartoon character (Cathy) is a career woman faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as Guisewite herself put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups."

Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Midland, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Guisewite received her bachelor's degree in English in 1972. She also holds seven honorary degrees.

In 1993, Guisewite received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society. In 1987, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special Cathy, which aired on CBS. Guisewite was a frequent guest in the latter years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Guisewite and her husband Chris Wilkinson reside in Los Angeles. She has a daughter and a stepson.

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, as some of my friends know, I have dedicated this month to comic strips. While I have plenty of Garfield Fat Cat Three Packs and a few Dilbert compilations in my own collection, I was thinking that I should go beyond my usual fare. I've always been all about family-friendly and clean-cut entertainment, and, usually, that's what the funny pages provide. While I don't care for political strips--on either side of the spectrum, mind you--or ones that aren't funny, such as the long-running Rex Morgan, M.D., many times, comic strips can give me a good laugh.

Instead of being a mere compilation of old strips, though, this book combines classic funnies with the cartoonist's commentary about food and drink back in the day versus now. Her strips and various thoughts provided humor and some things to think about, although most of it was actually meant for members of the opposite gender; hence, why I won't read another of these collections. I'll have to seek out some more Peanuts books instead.

[Sadie-Jane Huff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book 50 of 200 ~ 2023

Like a diet, Cathy needs to be taken in small portions...

Thinking that I used to love reading the daily strips in the paper that this would equate in the same excitement.. no.. not so much...

She gets grating and she reminds me of an ex friend of mine who always plays victim..

Hope the next read is better, a quarter way in to 200:)

[Tasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very funny and true comic book of how we have relationships with food. Plus the diet humor is also true.