Cath Jackson

Cath Jackson started her career in the early 1980s as a cub journalist on International Construction Magazine and later transitioned to be a freelance cartoonist.[1] Her artistic focus, as a lesbian cartoonist, was largely centered around political activism and questioning feminist positions.[1][2][3] Jackson began producing comic strips in 1981 for magazines such as Nursing Times and City Limits.[1][4] The New Statesman, a British newspaper, also displayed her work on their July cover in 1985.[5] The New Statesman magazine is well known for its upfront and confrontational outlook on global politics.[6] In addition, she drew cartoons for an aids instructional pamphlet targeted at women and produced by the Terrance Higgins Trust Foundation.[7]

Her contribution to Trouble and Strife began in the Spring of 1984 and she regularly helped produce the magazine until the Summer of 1993.[8][9] Trouble and Strife generated articles that advocated for "radical feminism" from 1983–2002.[10] Jackson returned in 2014 to illustrate for the magazine on the topic of anti-gay legislation at the Sochi Olympics.[11] Some of her cartoons from these publications were later reproduced on post cards for Cath Tate Cards.[1] Jackson met Cath Tate through a mutual acquaintance that worked for the novelty book store Silvermoon.[12] During the 1990s she was featured in several anthologies produced by Roz Warren all of which, were themed on contemporary lesbian and women's humor.[13][14][15]

• She was featured in the book The inking woman: 250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain (2018), which compiled the works from the 2017 art exhibit held at the Cartoon Museum in London.[1]

• https://www.troubleandstrife.org/articles/
• https://www.cathtatecards.com/