Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash was born on January 9, 1996, in Charleston, South Carolina, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first book, Girl in the World (Silver Sprocket, 2019), collected her early autobio comics. Then the pandemic hit. Burned out and depressed, Cash stopped making work for a year and a half — and when she came back, she poured everything into a silly little comic with a deliberately juvenile title that captured the absurdist spirit of the moment.

PeePee PooPoo started as a self-published zine. Cash deliberately numbered the first issue #69, the second #420, and the third #80085 — a middle-finger to corporate comics numbering. Silver Sprocket picked it up, and the series quickly became a critical phenomenon. The 2022 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic was followed by the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, and the book has been nominated for the Cartoonist Studio Prize and the Broken Frontier Award (which it won for Best Periodical). Cash’s comics are funny, raw, and unflinchingly honest — one page might be a philosophical meditation on tattoos, the next a step-by-step guide to puking in the bar icebox.

In 2024, Cash contributed guest strips to the legendary comic strip Nancy, and on January 1, 2026, she became its full-time cartoonist, succeeding Olivia Jaimes. “It was a real dream come true,” she said. “Nancy had been my favorite comic strip for a long time.” Her run draws on the offbeat, absurdist qualities of Ernie Bushmiller’s original while bringing the same sharp, contemporary voice that made PeePee PooPoo essential reading.

Cash currently lives in Philadelphia, where she is also at work on an untitled graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly and a video game “about dating hot girls.”

Perfect for fans of John Stanley’s Nancy, Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek, and Gabrielle Bell’s Cecil and Jordan in New York — autobio comics with heart, edge, and no filter.

Explore Caroline Cash’s comic: PeePee PooPoo.