As a young, single woman in the late 1980s, my mother enjoyed reading the comic strip “Cathy.” She found Cathy’s boy troubles and diet failures comforting, if not always funny, because whatever flaws my mother had, at least she was never as pitiful as the comic’s eponymous heroine.

Over the years, “Cathy” creator Cathy Guisewite has fielded plenty of similar feedback, as well as more glowing or more frustrated responses, from fans who felt understood to detractors who thought the whole of womankind had been misrepresented.

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