References in Other Media
- Marvel Comics superhero Kitty Pryde described Cats Laughing as her favorite band. The band members themselves appeared in Excalibur No. 5 as Murderworld simulations, in the 1990 one-shot Excalibur : Mojo Mayhem, and in the 1991 magazine Marvel Illustrated - The Swimsuit Issue. The Band was also reference in DC comic Sovereign Seven.
- The song "Signal to Noise", written by Emma Bull for the first Cats Laughing album, supplied the title for a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman. The song was later recorded by The Flash Girls.
- Cats Laughing appears as a band in Borderland, a series of urban fantasy novels and stories created by Terri Windling.
- Cats Laughing also appear in Spider Robinson's novel The Callahan Touch, and "among other weird and wonderful things Lady Day's classic 'Gloomy Sunday' in Hungarian."
- Born to Run, an urban fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon, makes a passing reference to "a few humans in Cats Laughing... concert-tour sweatshirts.
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