Madeleine Jubilee Saito is a cartoonist living on Duwamish land in Seattle, Washington.
press:
The Comics Journal (Interview)
Best American Comics 2019 (Notable work list)
The Comics Journal (Best of 2018)
Comics Workbook (Review)
Sequential State (Best of 2017)
Huffington Post
about me
My name is Madeleine. I grew up in the woods of the rural Illinois, and then in a mid-sized post-industrial city in Illinois, and now I live in Seattle. I'm a white Lithuanian American cis woman. I'm a Christian and an anti-capitalist.
Some words you might use to describe my work are comics poetry, poetry comics, or experimental comics. I'm interested in a lot of things, including friendship, formal experimentation, medieval sacred comics, the built environment, solidarity, climate justice, the psalms, the material world, and the sacred.
get in touch
You can reach me at madeleinecomics @ gmail . com. I’m always open to teaching & lecturing. I’d love to talk about speaking or leading a workshop with your organization, and I sometimes work with individual students. : - )
If you’d like to keep up with my work, I send out short newsletter with a beautiful little comic + updates on my work every single month. You can sign up above.
I’m represented by Clare Mao. You can reach her at cmao@sjga.com.
Photo credit: Holly Stevens
“A final observation. Comics is a river; many voices travel in it; comic after comic moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in a new historical context; almost everything in the end, passes. But the desire to make a comic and the world’s willingness to receive it—indeed the world’s need of it—these never pass.
If it is all comics, not just one’s own accomplishment, that carries one from this green and mortal world—that lifts the latch and gives a glimpse into greater paradise—then perhaps one has the sensibility: gratitude apart from authorship, fervor and desire beyond the margins of the self.”
– Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook. Revised by Juan José Fernandez to replace “poetry” and “poem” with “comics” and “comic.”