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Graffeg to Publish New Line of Welsh Language Children's Books Dealing with Mental Health Issues - Range Includes 'Mum's Jumper' by BF 'Six to Watch' Artist Jayde Perkin

Graffeg to Publish New Line of Welsh Language Children’s Books Dealing with Mental Health Issues – Range Includes ‘Mum’s Jumper’ by BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Jayde Perkin

Publisher Graffeg have announced a number of new children’s books published in Welsh dealing with issues surrounding mental health awareness. The line-up includes Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch’ artist Jayde Perkin’s Mum’s Jumper, originally published in English and reviewed here at BF. Eight new Welsh children’s picture books take on a range of mental health issues Publication dates February –…

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'Time May Change Me', But Bowie's Lyrics Will Always Resonate

‘Time May Change Me’, But Bowie’s Lyrics Will Always Resonate

David Bowie would’ve turned 72 today. Three years ago tomorrow, Jayde Perkin’s Time May Change Me begins. An autobiographical comic about grief and loss, it’s the day before Bowie’s death – January 9, 2016 – and Perkin has just flown back to Berlin after seeing her parents. A few weeks later she would fly back, after learning her mother’s cancer had returned.

Five years. Is that all we got?

It…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back Tomorrow Tuesday July 18th with Guest Artists Sam Baldwin, Grace Helmer and Jayde Perkin

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back Tomorrow Tuesday July 18th with Guest Artists Sam Baldwin, Grace Helmer and Jayde Perkin

Another month, another guest-artist filled D&D! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back tomorrow Tuesday July 18th with another top trio of artistic talent in Sam Baldwin, Grace Helmer and Jayde Perkin. We’re once again at our current home, upstairs in the Coach and Horses pub on Great Marlborough Street. Your convivial co-hosts for the night are myself (Broken Frontier…

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Time May Change Me - Jayde Perkin Explores Grief and the Bonds of Music in a Poignant Autobio Offering

Time May Change Me – Jayde Perkin Explores Grief and the Bonds of Music in a Poignant Autobio Offering

ELCAF WEEK! “When I said goodbye to my mum and dad at the airport, I had no idea it would be the last time I’d see her with no wires, no tubes.” Those early words in Jayde Perkin’s Time May Change Me set the scene for a minicomic that incorporates elements of both graphic medicine and memoir in an intimate and raw exploration of grief. Perkin’s ELCAF-debuting book is a poignant piece of the most…

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I did an illustration for August’s issue of Bulletin; a monthly magazine for The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. 

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You can read an interview about me on illustrators.illustrated

Huge thanks to Judith for the kind words, and the amazingly accurate portrait!!

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And those 2017 diaries I posted about yesterday for FERA, have also been adapted into these cute little pocket-sized versions, yay! 

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