Cathy Guisewite was raised in Midland, Michigan with older sister Mary Anne Nagy and younger sister Mickey.
11 Facts About Cathy Guisewite
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Cathy Guisewite attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.
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Cathy Guisewite became a vice president of the firm in 1976.
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Cathy Guisewite continued to draw funny pictures as an "emotional coping mechanism" to events in her life and work, and she would forward them to her parents.
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Cathy Guisewite's mother kept urging her to send them to a publisher, so she did.
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Cathy Guisewite was flabbergasted when the company sent her a contract to produce a comic strip.
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Cathy Guisewite appeared several times as a guest on the late night TV series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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However, on August 11,2010, Cathy Guisewite announced the strip's retirement after 34 years.
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Cathy Guisewite is a member of the National Cartoonists Society and received in 1993 its highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, for her work in 1992.
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Cathy Guisewite has been granted honorary degrees from Russell Sage College, Rhode Island College, and Eastern Michigan University.
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Cathy Guisewite adopted daughter Ivy in 1992, then married screenwriter Christopher Wilkinson in 1997.