Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite in 1987, holding her Emmy Award
Birth name	Cathy Lee Guisewite
Born	September 5, 1950(1950-09-05) Dayton, Ohio, USA
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist
Notable works	Cathy
Awards	1987 Emmy Award 1993 Reuben Award

Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) 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.

One of Guisewite's classmates at University of Michigan was Lawrence Kasdan. When Kasdan's movie The Big Chill opened, Guisewite devoted an entire week of Cathy strips to this movie, with her character Cathy and Cathy's co-workers all enthusing over the film and seeing it repeatedly. (One of these strips included Guisewite's drawing of a cinema poster for The Big Chill which rather implausibly included screenwriter Kasdan's name in large letters but didn't list the names of any actors in the movie!)