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Suffrage Song is now available!
Research and Non-Fiction Comics, Online zoom discussion with Ellen Forney and Jean Munson for Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. Open to public. October 2, 12 Pacific
Southern Festival of the Book, October 26-27, Nashville TN
Short Run Seattle, Exhibitor, November 2
Non-Fiction Comics Festival, Burlington, Vermont, Special Guest, November 16
Awarded a Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship in Literary Arts. March 2024
Omaha Magazine Profile, October 2023
Peer-Reviewed Comic Article published in a recent issue of INKS: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society. I also did the cover illustration for this issue.
Ten page graphic poem published in This Place an anthology produced by the Amplify Arts Alternate Currents Working Group.
Interview with the National Endowment for the Arts about Women’s Work
Drawing Power was named a 2019 top graphic novel by the New York Times. I have a four page comic in this anthology published by Abrams Books.
About
Caitlin Cass makes comics, cartoons and art installations about failing systems and irrational hope. Story by story she is building her own canon in a doomed effort to understand the dismal state of the world.
For the past 13 years Caitlin has published a bimonthly comic periodical under the moniker The “Great” Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent. Her cartoons and comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The Lily and The Nib. Caitlin was a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction and a 2024 NAC Fellow in Non-Fiction. Her 2020 solo exhibition Women’s Work was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Caitlin’s first full length graphic history Suffrage Song came out with Fantagraphics Books in June 2024.
Originally from River Forest, IL, Caitlin spent 11 years in Buffalo, NY and recently moved west to teach as Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Illustration and Time-Based Media at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Contact
Caitlin.cass@gmail.com