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I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous: A Cathy Collection Kindle & comiXology

by Cathy Guisewite (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 45 ratings

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America’s favorite comic strip heroine navigates the perils of being a modern woman in this hilarious collection.

By now, we’re all familiar with Cathy’s battles among the four basic guilt groups: food, Mom, love, and career. Women can identify with Cathy Guisewite’s hilarious portrayal of the universal struggles of modern femininity. A confirmed chocoholic, Cathy often consoles herself with one more trip to the fridge, then pays for it with frightening excursions in department store dressing rooms. Mom pushes Cathy to find the man who will give her grandchildren. As for her career, Cathy struggles to be a superstar, even though her desk looks like a disaster area.

In fact, Cathy’s all-too-recognizable life is what endears her to devoted readers. Her countless fans look on their cartoon heroine as a best friend, someone who really knows the trials and tribulations of the working single woman. From Internet dating to Christmas catalog fiascoes, from winter-flu one-upmanship at the office to kitchen technique discussions with Mom, Cathy puts her finger on the kinds of situations that women face in their real lives on a daily basis. In this Cathy collection, I’d Scream Except I Look So Fabulous, our favorite cartoon character once again shows why her popularity soars. Who can’t relate to the discomfort fashion sometimes dictates in order to be trendy.

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Cathy Guisewite launched Cathy in newspapers in 1976, becoming one of the few female cartoonists to hit the daily strip Big Time. Cathy Guisewite's many awards include a 1993 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for her CBS Cathy special.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B8UKCC2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (November 6, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 80570 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 110 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,043,495 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #546 in Comic Strips (Kindle Store)
- #585 in Cartoons
- #981 in Celebrity & Popular Culture Humor (Books)

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Cathy Guisewite launched Cathy in newspapers in 1976, becoming one of the few female cartoonists to hit the daily strip Big Time. Cathy Guisewite's many awards include a 1993 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for her CBS Cathy special.

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Guisewite at her best

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2005

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I'm an avid Cathy fan and this is Guisewite at her best. She keeps to her trademark humor and perceptiveness while using very "everyday" situations. To those who complain that the cartoon plays upon stereotypical female concerns such as shopping and food, I counter that these themes make the humor relatable to many women, while providing a backdrop to the cartoonist's witty and incisive social commentary.

This particular collection plays upon an unexpected twist in the Cathy-Irving saga. After a lapse of three years, Irving turns up in a very unexpected way in Cathy's life - her professional life! - as a downsizing consultant. Guisewite very cleverly develops various angles of this theme, such as the often seen discrepancy between a person's competent "together" professional demeanor versus the more lackadaisical, sometimes inept, personal one. The irony is heightened for instance when Cathy's boss introduces Irving as being hired to do some housecleaning (as he euphemistically calls it) for the company and Cathy remembers that he does not even pick up his towels off the floor!

Of course Guisewite weaves in her usual themes into the plot. The title itself stems from a realization that her cartoon protagonist looks fabulous with the aid of the usual flesh constricting sartorial arsenal of corsets, tight hose and stillettos, etc. It speaks to the inventiveness and imagination of Guisewite that she can bring up many fresh and astute takes on these seemingly mundane aspects of the female experience.

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Sofia~

Cathy! Too funny to ignore.

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016

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Growing up I devoured the Cathy books that were available. This past Christmas I decided to introduce her to my daughters. The sarcastic, feminist, self-loathing, truth telling Cathy is still a hit after all these years. I was sad to see that a lot of the collections were not readily available for purchase. I sincerely hope that there will be re-prints available in the very near future, so that a new generation will come to love sarcastic Cathy as she navigates life.

Highly recommend for girls or women that may not be into conventional comic strips but want to be entertained where the lead is an insecure female trying to get through the day. Cathy is a classic but yet still has us smiling because even though things change they are still eerily the same.

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