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The First Graphic Novel Award winner announced tonight

The winner of The First Graphic Novel Award will be announced tonight at a special sold out event at Waterstones Piccadilly, London

The winner of The First Graphic Novel Award will be announced tonight at a special sold out event at Waterstones Piccadilly, London, and you can find out who online. Selected from a shortlist of seven – Alex Taylor, Cathy Brett, Anna Trench, Corban Wilkin, Gareth Cowlin, Myfanwy Tristram and Mereida Fajardo – the winner will be getting their debut graphic novel published by SelfMadeHero. The…

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Comic News Insider Episode 1560 - Thought Bubble Fest: Mereida Fajardo!

Comic News Insider: Episode 1560 is now available for free download! Click on the link or follow on Spotify/subscribe on iTunes!

Jimmy attended Thought Bubble Festival over the weekend and is exhausted! But what a great time! He got 14 interviews total which you'll hear over the next few weeks. In this episode, you'll hear Mereida Fajardo! Jimmy was delighted to find a fellow Filipino attending the show. They chat about her most recent work THERE'S A PARTY IN MY BODY (AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED), other comics including one that is a beautiful tribute to her late grandmother, playing with the physical form of a comic, fave Filipino foods, loving kimchi and more!

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 - The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines and their interactive format. Each one is an example of the Turkish Map Fold – a process that takes an A4 sheet, folds it into an A6 cover that then opens up as an interactive…

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 - The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

by Andy Oliver

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/colossive-cartographies-22-32-gareth-brookes-mereida-fajardo/

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Celebrating 2021 - Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

Celebrating 2021 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

It seems hardly possible that this is the tenth annual ‘Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!’ yearly round-up at Broken Frontier. Way back in 2012 I was alerting you to work from artists who would go on to be published by the likes of Avery Hill Publishing, Soaring Penguin Press, Myriad Editions, Blank Slate Books, David Fickling Books, Bloomsbury and Square Peg, among others. Truly the…

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Naglalamay - Mereida's "Exploration of Filipino Funeral Rites and Superstitions" is our Thought Bubble 'Comic of the Festival' for 2021

Naglalamay – Mereida’s “Exploration of Filipino Funeral Rites and Superstitions” is our Thought Bubble ‘Comic of the Festival’ for 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Mereida Fajardo’s Naglalamay was originally very briefly covered here at Broken Frontier as part of our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Month event when, in minicomic format, it was included as part of the Lucky WIP anthology. That collection was presented as a lucky dip grab bag of five random print comics alongside a digital download of all the 40-ish publications that made…

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Throwing Pennies - Mereida's Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph

Throwing Pennies – Mereida’s Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph

HCZF MONTH! A couple of months back when I interviewed Mereida Fajardo about her practice I asked whether her constant experimentation with the form was a conscious decision to learn her storytelling craft through an interrogation of the medium’s possibilities, rather than focusing on developing just one consistent style. Her reply was: “100%. I’m not the most skilled draughtsman so I’m more…

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Throwing Pennies - Mereida's Multi-Part Experimental Comics Narrative is a Tactile Triumph

by Andy Oliver

HCZF MONTH! A couple of months back when I interviewed Mereida Fajardo about her practice I asked whether her constant experimentation with the form was a conscious decision to learn…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/throwing-pennies/

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Lucky WIP - 30-Plus Creators from the WIP Comics Group Breathe New Life Into the Comics Anthology with this Unique Take on the Format

Lucky WIP – 30-Plus Creators from the WIP Comics Group Breathe New Life Into the Comics Anthology with this Unique Take on the Format

HCZF MONTH! We’ve featured WIP Comics a number of times over the last few years at BF in terms of both their publishing output and their work in providing a supportive community network of grassroots comics creators. The group’s organiser Joe Stone is also, of course, the hard-working force behind the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair so it will come as no great shock that Lucky WIP, this year’s WIP…

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Lucky WIP - 30-Plus Creators from the WIP Comics Group Breathe New Life Into the Comics Anthology with this Unique Take on the Format

by Andy Oliver

HCZF MONTH! We’ve featured WIP Comics a number of times over the last few years at BF in terms of both their publishing output and their work in providing a…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/lucky-wip-comics-hackney-comic-zine-fair-hczf/

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Quivertree - The Symbolic and the Actual Mirror Each Other in Distorted Reflection in More Boundary-Pushing Work from Mereida

Quivertree – The Symbolic and the Actual Mirror Each Other in Distorted Reflection in More Boundary-Pushing Work from Mereida

In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Mereida Fajardo (aka the more singular Mereida). That’s simply because she spoke about what she was attempting to evoke with its entrancingly uncertain style in an interview with us last month at BF. She said then that…

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Quivertree - The Symbolic and the Actual Mirror Each Other in Distorted Reflection in More Boundary-Pushing Work from Mereida

by Andy Oliver

In some ways I feel like a bit of a cheat when approaching a review of the deliberately enigmatic short comic Quivertree by our 2021 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/quivertree-mereida-abstract-comics/

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"I Want to Use the Medium to Tell Stories that Could Only Exist as Comics" - Mereida Fajardo Talks Abstract Comics, Experimental Practice and the Importance of Comics Community

by Andy Oliver

Back when we announced this year’s Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch’ I spoke about today’s interviewee Mereida Fajardo in the following terms: “I always gravitate towards creators…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/mereida-fajardo-quark-soup-quivertree-wip-comics/

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Quark Soup - Introducing the Experimental Comics Practice of Mereida Fajardo

by Andy Oliver

When it comes to small press coverage for Broken Frontier I am always on the lookout for work that experiments with the form – practice that interrogates its perceived boundaries…

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/quark-soup-mereida-fajardo/

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Feb 11th with Guest Artists Mereida Fajardo, Rebecca Burgess and Robert Wells

The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Feb 11th with Guest Artists Mereida Fajardo, Rebecca Burgess and Robert Wells

We’re back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 11th with guest artists Mereida Fajardo, Rebecca Burgess and Robert Wells – three creators who are all new to the D&D! Not only do our online D&Ds keep all those who would meet at The King’s Arms in Soho, London every month (in those fondly remembered pre-March 2020 days) in regular…

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The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Feb 11th with Guest Artists Mereida Fajardo, Rebecca Burgess and Robert Wells

by Andy Oliver

We’re back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 11th with guest artists Mereida Fajardo, Rebecca Burgess and Robert Wells – three…

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/drik-and-draw-mereida-fajardo-robert-wells-rebecca-burgess-gosh-comics/