I have always loved reading typical newspaper comic strips. Unfortunately though, a lot of it them are pretty bad and unentertaining and, more relevant to this website, usually seriously lacking in any interesting female characters or creators.

Cathy, with her trademark explosive perspiration

Cathy, with her trademark explosive perspiration

One of the few cartoons created by a woman I saw in newspapers published around where I grew up was Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy. And that is a really bad strip. I have rarely found much humor in it, and most of the time it is concentrated on nothing but perpetuating stereotypes about how women care only about shopping, their own weight, food and weddings. Men, on the other hand, care about nothing other than technical gadgets. Women are of course not interested in those.
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