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Suffrage Song won the Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work!
Suffrage Song on CSPAN Book TV
Suffrage Song named a Top 30 Art Book by Hyperallergic
Awarded a Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship in Literary Arts. March 2024
Omaha Magazine Profile, October 2023
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.
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 14 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 Literary Arts. 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 (Fantagraphics, 2024) won the 2025 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.
Caitlin lives and works in Omaha, NE where she is Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Illustration and Time-Based Media at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Eisner Winners at Comic Con International in San Diego 2025