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Aack Cast by Jamie Loftus

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  • Aack! Cathy, the iconic and much-maligned comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, chronicled the day-to-day tribulations of its titular working woman for 35 years, met with equal praise and derision. In this podcast, Jamie Loftus (Lolita Podcast, My Year in Mensa) weaves between reporting and fiction, putting a cruelly treated cartoon everywoman in context.
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  • Introducing Aack Cast by Jamie Loftus

    Introducing Aack Cast by Jamie Loftus
    Jun 21 2021

    Aack! Cathy, the iconic and much-maligned comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, chronicled the day-to-day tribulations of its titular working woman for 35 years, met with equal praise and derision. In this podcast, Jamie Loftus (Lolita Podcast, My Year in Mensa) weaves between reporting and fiction, putting a cruelly treated cartoon everywoman in context.


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    3 mins
  • Aackt 1: Cathy Comics, Revisited

    Aackt 1: Cathy Comics, Revisited
    Jun 28 2021

    Allow me to be the first to advise you: Cathy comics are good as hell — but it’s complicated. Today, Jamie takes a look at what exactly happens in the 34 years of Cathy lore, and it’s way more than you think.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Aackt 2: Who is Cathy Guisewite?

    Aackt 2: Who is Cathy Guisewite?
    Jul 5 2021

    For an author constantly conflated with her most famous creation, would the real Cathy Guisewite please stand up? In this two-part interview, Jamie and Cathy talk about what the journey from unknown diarist to world-famous aack connoisseur was like, and all the misjudgments and road blocks that came up along the way. 

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    47 mins
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