Cayetano Garza

Cayetano Garza
Cat Garza selling work at La Pla Art Market in Harlingen, Texas
Born	(1972-10-15) October 15, 1972 (age 44) Harlingen, Texas
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist
Notable works	Cuentos de la Frontera The Year of The Rat
Awards	Ignatz Award, 2009
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Cayetano 'Cat' Garza (born October 15, 1972) is a comic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and musician in the United States. He is best known for his experiments with webcomics.

Garza has been published in various anthologies and publications. He is considered by Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, as a pioneer in the area of web design and interface for online comics. Garza is featured in McCloud's sequel to Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and on his website. He has also been featured in Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning by Steven Withrow.

Garza was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley in the city of Harlingen, Texas on October 15, 1972. His interest in comics stems from a day in his early youth when, as a six-year-old child, his mother bought him his first comic, an issue of The Flash. In second grade he sold homemade comics with a cast characters that included the likes of "Glue Man" to his classmates for a quarter or their lunch ticket. As a child he typically read superhero comics, but what really caught his attention was the humor comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!. He also read a number of comic strips, including Peanuts and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

Garza's formal artistic training started with a few high school art courses. He went on to get his Bachelor of Fine Arts at UTPA, concentrating on studio art. He started grad school, dropped out after only one year.