Cayetano 'Cat' Garza (born October 15, 1972) is a comic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and musician in the United States.
Garza was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley in the city of Harlingen, Texas on October 15, 1972.
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.
Creating strips throughout high school and college Garza was heavily influenced by the comic scene in Austin, Texas, including artists who had strips in The Daily Texan, such as Chris Ware, Walt Holcombe, Shannon Wheeler, Robert Rodriguez, Tom King, Lance Myers, and Korey Coleman.
[citation needed] Garza's current comic strip, Whimville, runs daily.