Cathy Guisewite

"From the iconic creator of the "Cathy" comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays in the style of Nora Ephron and Erma Bombeck, centered around the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process. As the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers over 40 years ago, and has been there ever since. Her deeply funny and relatable look at the life of a frazzled career woman became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere, and now, in her debut essay collection, Guisewite returns with her signature self-deprecating wit and warmth, this time taking a look at her own life. The autobiographical essays that make up Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault offer a disarming, hilarious, and wise look at the lives of "the sandwich generation," which Guisewite calls "the panini generation." In this collection, Guisewite turns her uniquely wry and funny gaze to her own day-to-day life, with topics ranging from the mundane--teaching her parents to use TiVo, organizing four decades of photos, attempting to meditate--to the more profound--her struggle to find a purpose post-retirement, helping her parents downsize their lives, and her personal definitions of feminism. Humorous, warm, and poignant, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault is ideal reading for mothers, daughters, and everyone who is caught somewhere in between, and on the threshold of "What Happens Next.""--

Essays from the Grown-up Years

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

Ana Falcão Bastos

Acordem-me quando vestir o 34!

Jerry Scott

Rick Kirkman

Jorge Lima

Sandra Pereira

Baby Blues: isto vai ser pior do que pensávamos

Barbara Albright

“A volume of recipes to help Cathy’s female fans cope with real-life maddening males” from the Emmy Award-winning cartoonist (Booklist). Cathy’s fights with food are legendary. She battles the bag of chips, the last piece of cake, the chocolate that calls her name. Now, in this delightful cookbook, the creative cartoon figure finally puts her fondness for food to work for the benefit of all womankind. It’s all about Girl Food! Coauthored by cartoonist Cathy Guisewite and food writer Barbara Albright, Girl Food dishes up recipes in ways women really think about eating. Five categories—from Romance Food to Swimsuit Food to Consolation Food—contain taste-tempting recipes for all occasions. Whether the reader’s trying to woo or she’s ruing the day she ever met him, Girl Food serves up just the right kind of nourishment, with a dash of Cathy’s special humor. Consider these tasty morsels: “He Actually Believed Me When I Said I Could Cook” Seduction Steak with Portobello Mushroom Sauce “Why Did I Volunteer to Bring Something” Party Pasta Salad “The Proposal Is Due; I Lost the File; I’m Staying Home” Chicken Soup All of Girl Food’s eighty recipes were developed by Albright, a registered dietitian, former editor-in-chief of Chocolatier Magazine, and author of numerous bestselling books on baking. Cathy—who personally tested every recipe—appears throughout the book, giving bonafide fans a chance to cook and commiserate with one of their favorite food friends. “An amusing arrangement of recipes divided into categories such as Romance Food, Swimsuit Food, Sweat Suit Food, Grown-Up Food and Consolation Food.” —Chicago Tribune

Cathy's Cookbook for the Well-Balanced Woman

Girl Food

Presents selections from the popular comic strip, chronicling the humorous side of American trends and fads of the past fifteen years

A Cathy Collection

Reflections, A Fifteenth Anniversary Collection

Provides satirical advice on techniques for becoming assertive and refusing people's requests for loans, help with work, and dates

How to Get Rich, Fall in Love, Lose Weight, and Solve All Your Problems by Saying "No"

From the creator of the iconic Cathy comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation." As the creator of Cathy, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more than forty years ago, and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle. With her uniquely wry and funny admissions and insights, Guisewite unearths the humor and horror of everything from the mundane (trying to introduce her parents to TiVo and facing four decades' worth of unorganized photos) to the profound (finding a purpose post-retirement, helping parents downsize their lives, and declaring freedom from all those things that hold us back). No longer confined to the limits of four cosmic panels, Guisewite holds out her hand in prose form and becomes a reassuring companion for those on the threshold of "what happens next." Heartfelt and humane and always cathartic, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault is ideal reading for mothers, daughters, and anyone who is caught somewhere in between.

Cathy is like a longtime friend who shares the same fears and frustrations as most women: 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 subjects: Mom. This is a cartoon soul mate. Readers will find comfort, solace, and lots of laughs.

A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups

"I guess if anything I've ever written could cause them to one day remove the fluorescent lights from the swimwear department, then I've lived a full life." --Cathy Guisewite in Biography magazine Cathy is like a longtime friend who shares the same fears and frustrations as most women: 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 is based on one of Cathy's most popular subjects: Love. Cathy is a cartoon soul mate, who stresses over the four basic guilt groups. Readers will find comfort, solace, and lots of laughs.

Love

Joan Walsh Anglund

The perfect stocking stuffer, Joan Walsh Anglund's Christmas Candy Book offers delicious recipes and illustrations in the artist's signature style. A charm rounds out this engaging gift. The perfect stocking stuffer, Joan Walsh Anglund's Christmas Candy Book offers delicious recipes and illustrations in the artist's signature style. A charm rounds out this engaging gift.

The Christmas Candy Book

Isolation commiserations from the creator of the iconic “Cathy” comic strip, Cathy Guisewite! We’re all in this together…but it helps to see someone else with her face planted in the bowl of mashed potatoes. In the same way that Cathy was a relatable friend during the comic strip years, she’s returned to offer some happy relief, support, and a much-needed AACK from isolation. This little book is a compassionate companion for right now and, long after the pandemic is over, will be a treasured scrapbook of what we survived—the fear of droplets, the work-from-refrigerator wear, the revenge retail therapy of online shopping, the frustration of trying to teach Grandma to Zoom from 3,000 miles away, the little shreds of hope mixed in with the sourdough bread dough. From the introduction: I’ve worn the same pair of sweatpants for fourteen months. I’ve binge watched, binge eaten, binge shopped, binge prayed. I’ve Zoomed. Streamed. Screamed. Googled how to get hot fudge out of a duvet cover. Googled how to chop my insulting blue jeans into face masks. Googled how to permanently delete my Google search history. I’ve meditated, looked within and asked the big questions: “If no one’s allowed in my house for months, what’s the point of vacuuming?”

Scenes from Isolation

Features the continuing adventures of the plucky career woman as she struggles with the everyday trials of being young and single in the 1990s

I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous

Cathy tackles a new diet program, runs into erstwhile boyfriend Irving, sets out to organize her office, and copes with her mom's interruptions and her unrealistic boss, Mr. Pinkley

The Child Within Has Been Awakened But The Old Lady on the Outside Just Collapsed

Cartoons offer a humorous look at dog ownership, baby sitting, dating, bridal showers, weddings, shopping, and work

My Granddaughter Has Fleas!!

Collects 366 new cartoons featuring "Cathy," the heroine for the 1980's single working woman, and dealing with mothers, boyfriends, bosses, and chocolate

Wake Me Up When I'm a Size 5

Written and illustrated by famous comic strip artist Cathy Guisewite, this book is a funny, touching little tribute to the unswerving influence of that tough taskmaster and best friend, of that woman who can turn pearls of wisdom into a choker — Mom.

Cathy Guisewite

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