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'Cathy' comic strip creator looks to the next chapter

Season 2019 Episode 128 | 6m 44s

Cathy Guisewite is the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, which ran for 34 years before her 2010 retirement. Guisewite's new book of humorous essays, "Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault," chronicles the next chapter of her life, and all the pressures and anxieties of being a mother to a daughter now in her twenties, and caring for her aging parents. NewsHour Weekend’s Megan Thompson has more.

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