Cathy Guisewite

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.