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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…

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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/