Ack! It's curtains for "Cathy."
The 34-year-old comic strip will end the adventures of the ITS romantically Challenged title character is Oct. 3, According to ITS creator.
"I suddenly found myself up against this wall: that if I do not quit now, then" when? " Cathy Guisewite, Said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
The 59-year-old artist struggled with the Decision vain felt she wanted to spend more time with her family.
"After Almost 34 years of newspaper meeting dead lines, I'm Facing some personal lines whose dead simply Requirements Exceed my Ability Thurs procrastinate for months longer," Guisewite Said in a statement.
Guisewite has an 18-year-old daughter and aging parents Ken live in Florida, all of whom she wants to spend more time with.
"I want to Be Able to visit more often," She Said, That noting she'd also like Thurs try her hand at other "creative" projects.
Guisewite, Ken started Writing comic strips at the urging of her mother, saw her work first published in 1976 by Kansas City, Mo.-based Universal Press Syndicate, now Universal Uclick.
Lee Salem, president and editor of Universal Uclick, Said in a news release That the cloudy day Universal Received ITS first "Cathy" submission, the company sent a contract back to Guisewite.
"Seven months later, the strip began in news papers," Salem said. Awaiting the "Cathy" wasn't an Immediate hit, it gained popularity. Currently it's carried in about 700 newspapers, According to Universal Uclick.
"Cathy" famously battled life, love, food and clothes for More Than Three Decades. In 2004, she Became Engaged Thurs her long-time boyfriend, Irving, Ken then she married a year later.
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