One morning, when Higu Rose woke from troubled dreams, they found themself transformed in their bed into a horrible catboy...
higu rose is an illustrator, cartoonist, quilter, ethnographer, and local terror living in pittsburgh, PA. based in fiction and autobiography, higu’s work focuses on experiences of being black, queer/trans, and a little bonkers. higu's narratives are a constant endeavor to understand the self and society, with a snarling desire to love and live. one time higu made Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel wait five minutes for a 8oz cup of coffee.
higu works in ink, graphite, acryla gouache, Clip Studio, and spit.
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higu works in ink, graphite, acryla gouache, Clip Studio, and spit.
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/AWARDS!!!
︎ “These Hollow Hills” group residency with folkLAB (2024-2025)
︎ 8/18 SKULL DAZE Residency(.org) house artist (2023)
︎ Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant (2022)
︎ BOOM Universe Residency @ BOOM Concepts (2021)
︎ Liscenced Ethnographer Association Degree Award (2020)
PRESS???
︎ Drawing a Dialogue Presents, Episode 7: higu rose (Trans Cartoonists in the DIY Scene #4); interview, (2024)
︎ “Queer in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood - An Interview With Higu Rose of YINZ CITY”, Caroline Keane for Petrichor (2024)
︎ "Yinz City comic creator higu rose on being a Black transmasculine artist in Pittsburgh", Amanda Waltz for the Pittsburgh City Paper (2020)
︎ Interview with the STL Small Press Expo
︎ Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 25: Transmasculinity + Child Development, Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson (2019)
︎ Tittychop Boobslash Review, Carta Monir for The Comics Journal (2017)
SHOWS!?!
︎ SPIRIT WALLS 2023
︎ Square Show @ Studio 4, Pittsburgh (May 2023)
︎ Small Press Expo (2019, 2022)
︎ Saint Louis Small press Expo (2019)
︎ Toronto Comic Arts Festival (2018, 2023)
︎ Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (2017)
︎ Parallel Mutation (2017); Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA
︎ Pittsburgh Zine Fair (2014-2023)