But What About the Laughter and the Future?

Did you all hear the horrible news about life today? Cathy, the eponymous comic strip starring a Cathy and written by a Cathy will have its last comic strip ever on October 3rd. This is news most fowl! (That’s a play on a word. Fowl is a bird. Chicken is a bird. Cathy loooves food! Chicken is a food AND a bird! Cathy loves chicken probably.)

Whoever will the women of the world laugh with when their diets aren’t working? Whoever will tend to their hearts when love goes bad? Who will understand their unending devotion to chocolate? Who will understand how frustrating mother’s can be and how frustrating it can be when you realize you are becoming your frustrating mother? NO ONE! Women will only have friends and family to talk to and learn from now. They will not have a sexually androgynous, frizzy-haired dynamo of humor.

For those who don’t know, Cathy is (soon to be was) a HILARIOUS comic about a woman named Cathy doing all sorts of woman things like saying, “Ack!” when confronted with the urge to eat cake and saying, “Ack!” when exercising, and saying, “Ack” so much. Giggle giggle. Remember the time she said, “Ack!” when her mom visited?

Isn't this just like real life? Diet Sodas, straws, and Oreos. I feel you Cat. I feel you.

There is not a woman living on this planet, nay, in this galaxy that Cathy has not helped out in some capacity. It’s similar to how the Family Circus has helped you become such a good parent. Those kids always saying darndest things. Those kids not being in on the joke. Those poor kids with their strange, emotionless mother.

So alas, Cathy will be over, and with it so to will be the laughs. For everyone. Forever.