Forty-five years ago—on November 22, 1976—we were first introduced to Cathy on the funny pages… The original Cathy strip ran until 2010 when we saw the eponymous character announce her pregnancy to her own mother. Guisewite had officially retired. [W]hen the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020 she started drawing again. Cathy Commiserations was the […]
In the fall of 2021, an image started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed a panel from a comic strip published in 1957, in which a hooded hero encouraged mask use to protect against the “China virus”: The words “China virus,” a xenophobic and inaccurate reference to COVID-19, did not appear in the […]
It doesn’t take much to make me laugh over a poke at Facebook, but the level of gallows humor in this Joy of Tech gibe makes it more thought-provoking than funny. Will future generations one day look back with the same sense of “What the hell were they thinking?” Of course, the Greeks and Romans […]