Comics Artist, Librarian, Theatre Artist

(She/Her)

Kate Atherton is a comics artist and illustrator living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Rhode Island School of Design and has a BFA in Illustration. After undergrad, Kate returned to Cleveland and worked as a scenic painter (Cleveland Playhouse), an Illustrator (Kringle’s Inventionasium, Heights Arts, Edible Cleveland), a comics/art workshop instructor (Lake Erie Ink), a Props designer (Near West Theatre), and a performer, actor, and stage manager. Kate’s comics have been published in the Scene Magazine Comics issue and she self-published her first graphic novel “Survival” in the summer of 2022 and second graphic novel, “Come in, North” in the Fall of 2024.

Kate creates lavish, detailed ink paintings and pen and ink drawings based on literature, pop culture, and her day-to-day life working at the library, a beloved local bakery, and being out and about in Cleveland. She works full-time at the Noble Neighborhood Library and graduated with her MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Science) from Kent State University in December of 2023.