"By the time
Cathy began, the sexual revolution had ended, so the strip stands as a perfect artifact of a moment when the cultural understanding of coercion changed completely—a moment when, one could argue, second-wave feminism basically died. With its baby-boomer characters,
Cathy dramatizes the aftermath: the ’60s ended when it became clear that a revolutionary movement toward a just society wasn’t happening; the ’70s ended up being about trying to navigate the wreckage of the ’60s. The ’80s were largely about looking for strategies to accept injustice and inequality, and to construe that acceptance itself as a positive value.
"Cathy takes its place in this cultural progression by drilling in the notion that it doesn’t matter what the law says:
you are being coerced not by the state but by your desire to be valued."
posted by Rory Marinich
on May 5, 2013 -
78 comments
From Ryan Armand, author of the beautiful watercolor comic
Minus, comes the story of a man who decides one day to be
GREAT. Involves ramen, romance, gang warfare. Highly recommended.
posted by Rory Marinich
on Aug 19, 2012 -
6 comments
