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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 04 of "Becoming" Inktober Comic

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 03 of "Becoming" Inktober Comic

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 02 of ”Becoming” Inktober Comic

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For October, I'm posting a choose your own adventure daily comic called "Becoming". It's meant to be read on IG, but I'll post 'em here too! I used tarot decks, animal oracle deck, and story dice to give me story directions. (If ya wanna read in its original format: www.instagram.com/katfcomix/)

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So excited to officially announce my next two books!! MISS IMPERFECT & A SONG FOR HOME are currently in the works, and I can’t wait for y’all to read them! 🩷

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Super excited to share that my newest painting, “Lechuzas”, will be featured at the next ArtUsCo group show,”Birding Man”, from 3/28-5/20. Read more about it on my blog: katfajardo.blog/2026/03/27/l...

Artist Kat Fajardo holding up a 8x8 inches painting of two cartoon lechuzas, a shapeshifting witch into owls.

A flyer for "Birding Man" a bird themed gallery show at ArtUs Co in Austin, Texas. Exhibit dates are 3/28/26-5/30/26. On March 28th is a day full of bird themed events. Tickets price is $20.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Did I need to go to a Writer's Retreat this past weekend. No. Did I regret it? Absolutely not! Thanks to Austin Film Festival for hosting their annual Writer's Day Retreat at the beautiful Shield Ranch. Read more how I got the most of my time there below (and met a snake pal): lnkd.in/gs2imHcQ

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A throwback to some portraits I've made in the past, featuring inspiring book people!! Just a reminder that throughout June-Sept I'm offering portrait commissions, with all proceeds dedicated toward helping Raja and her family find food, shelter, and safety. Link in bio~

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Oops, who dropped this here?? So weird...👀

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I won't claim that this was inspired by Chappell Roan...pero like, what if tho?? 👀 #Illustration #Sapphic #Snake #ChappellRoan #gay

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'll be at Flamecon this weekend in NYC with my buddy @deltahead.bsky.social at table N143. It's been ages since I've done a hometown show :P #queer #art

Hand holding up a small colorful zine called "The Unwonderful World of Comphet".

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Wrapping up the week with great news! Miss Camper made it onto the Indie Bestsellers List AND was also featured on the School Library Journal's list of "37 Exceptional Graphic Novel & Manga Titles for All Ages | SLJ 2025 Stars So Far"! So thankful for all your support during its first week!!

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Today. Is. The. Day! Two years in the making, and Miss Camper has finally hit the shelves! I can't wait for y'all to read it, a story deeply personal to me as a goofy yet scared lil' camper. I hope you enjoy Miss Camper as your newest summer read and please send me your lovely camper photos!#kidlit

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

ONE more day until Miss Camper is officially out! Here are some more concept sketches of Sue's friends (except for their pal Alvin, whose sketch is missing😓), her sister Carmen, and new characters introduced in this book! #misscamper #kidlit #missquincesgn #booksforkids

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Book day is coming up, and it's been so lovely to see Miss Camper already appearing in bookstores! I even had the pleasure of autographing my first copies at Birdhouse Books today! #misscamper #kidlit #missquincesgn #booksforkids

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Just six more days until Miss Camper is released!! Here’s a preview of Sue’s summer fashion creations. After my debut book, I learned the importance of having character model sheets ready, as they’re incredibly useful for maintaining continuity! #kidlit #graphicnovels

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The countdown has officially started! With only a week left until Miss Camper hits bookstore shelves, I'm sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes content across social media. Don’t forget to preorder your copy or ask your local bookstore to set one aside for you.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Throughout June-September I’m offering commissions to support Raja and her family in Gaza. If you're interested in getting a portrait or a larger commission piece, please check out the link in my bio for more details & to access Raja's GoFundMe page. ko-fi.com/katfajardo/c...

The words "Portraits for Palestine" on the left while the right side of image has a collection of illustrated portraits of people. Below the portrait are the words "June-September 2025" and "6x6 illustrated portraits and full illustration commissions to support a family in Gaza. All proceeds will go toward helping Raja and her family find food, shelter, and safety."

Three children posing together with sunglasses on.

The three children posing with their father.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Three of my artworks will be featured in the virtual exhibition "Blossoms & Beyond: A virtual flower & garden show" at The City Arts Center in Round Rock, TX, from May 17-July 8, 2025. The exhibition includes 143 pieces, so check it out if you're in town! (Yes, I know I misspelled Desert Willow lol)

A laptop featuring an illustration of a dog character blowing a dandelion in a field of prickly pear cactus.

A laptop showing an illustration of a Desert Willow Tree

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Throughout my life, I've struggled with self-image & understanding femininity. However, recently I've found comfort in connecting with divine feminine energy, like the Aztec goddess Xochiquétzal & Mayan goddess Ixchel. Working with them feels empowering & has reshaped my perception of femininity.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Since moving to Austin, I’ve been drawn to Nopales, a symbol of resilience and bittersweet transformation. Even in tough times, we’re allowed to dream. Don’t lose hope ❤️‍🩹

An illustration featuring a small brown dog blowing dandelions in the wind while surrounded by nopales and marigolds. There’s a smiling sun in the sky.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I've been enrolled in a public art training program at the Dougherty Arts Center, which has been helping me in come up with ideas for murals I want to create. I could imagine this one by a wall covered with plants, with its eyes glowing in the dark 🌿👀🌿

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Brainstorming concepts for my next tapestry piece. Loving this new medium and eager to experiment new ideas! 😊 #TapestryArt #ArtisticJourney #DesignIdeas #FiberArts #TextileArt #Handcrafted #CreativeExploration #illustration

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I just want to give a huge shoutout to my all-time favorite heroes: librarians! Happy National Library Week! You all brighten my day so much. I love meeting you in person, especially at events like TLA, which was an absolute joy! Thank you for your dedication, support, & for providing a safe space!

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Crossed something off my bucket list this month!! My 6-page comic, “On Latinidad and Solidarity”, for The Texas Observer’s March/April 2025 issue is officially out 💕

Artist holding a copy of The Texas Observer magazine

Artist with the opened magazine page displaying a comic featuring protestors and counter protestors at a trump rally.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Weekly photo dump of muse (featuring donut collar bc little boy had fleas 😖)

A medium size dog stretching on a bed while wearing a donut collar

Dog sitting majestically on bed while in deep thought

Sad dog with a donut collar laying on couch

Crazed eyed dog being attacked by tickles as he swipes the viewer with a mighty paw

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Catch me at TLA next week! I’ll be on some fun panels & signing copies of my newest book Miss Camper!! 🏹

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today’s the last day @barnesandnoble.com is doing a huge preorder sale! If you want to preorder a copy of MISS CAMPER and get 25% off, join their free rewards program and use code PREORDER25 at checkout 🏹 #BNPreorder

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I’m OBSESSED with the updated front & back covers for my newest graphic novel Miss Camper!! Look at that pretty sunset 👀 📚 Preorder link in bio! 📚

An illustration of the front cover for the middle grade graphic novel for Miss Camper by Kat Fajardo, featuring a girl looking confused while holding a bow in the middle of a camp field. Around her is the chaos ants, traffic cones, a broken toy sword, arrows and she’s standing by poison ivy.

Back cover of the graphic novel Miss Quinces featuring a group of kids hanging out while wearing matching camp T-shirts.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

~*MY 2024 RECAP*~ Schools visited: 19 Panels moderated: 2 Second quinces celebrated: 1 Works published: 4 Festivals exhibited: 4 Keynote presented: 1 Graphic novels finished: 1 Thanks to all educators, librarians & booksellers for your support this year! See y’all in 2025! 🥂✨

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

✨🎄 Sending y’all my warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season! 🎄✨ (And buena suerte to those handling tough family moments—you're not alone!)

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding a book called “The Cruel Prince” by Holly Black. Cover illustration features a set of tree branches with a golden royal crown.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕 (Just wanted to add that this TikTok rec did NOT disappoint 🥵)

A hand holding a book called “The Dragon’s Bride” by Katee Robert part of their “A Deal with a Demon novel”. Cover illustration is inspired by classic romance novel art which features a beefy dragon humanoid holding a chain that’s attached to a woman’s wrist. The woman is curvy and wearing a white scandalous puffy dress. the dragon’s other arm is holding the women’s belly while her back is leaning towards him.there are bushes of roses surrounding them.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding a book called “Legends & Lattes” by Travis Baldree. Cover illustration depicts two women, a succubus with two horns and a devil tail, and a tall orc with their backs against each other. They’re each holding items, the succubus holds a cinnamon bun on a plate, while the Orc is holding a hot pot of coffee and a mug. In the background is a cafe with wooden walls and the table in front of the ladies has pastries.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding a book called “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries” a novel by Heather Fawlett. Cover illustration has flowers, mushrooms, and snowflakes.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding a book called “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller. Cover depicts an illustration of an Ancient Greek helmet.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding an art book called “Hiroshige: Japan’s Great Landscape Artist” by Isaburo Oka. On the cover, it is one of Hiroshige’s paintings of people riding a boat away from a shore where there are farmers holding bags of produce and a horse stands by with barrels attached to its back. There are traditional Japanese houses in the back ground.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Hand holding a book titled “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” by Julia Alvarez author of “In the Time of The Butterflies”. Cover art depicts a clear glass bottle with water and a flower. Surrounding the flower are four small hummingbirds.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I wanted to take the time to highlight some events that shaped both my personal and creative journey this year! It’s been a doozy, but an experience I needed after all! open.substack.com/pub/katfajar...

The sentence "Drawing the Year to a Close: My 2024 Highlight: Looking back at milestones, memories and magic that shaped my creative journey this year" overlaps an image of the author holding her book "Miss Quinces" at a bookstore. Followed by a link to her substack post katfajardoart.substack.com

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

A hand holding a book titled “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Cover art depicts a young Hispanic woman wearing a blood colored dress and holding a bouquet of flowers with the top half of her face (above her nose) cut off from the edge of the book.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Hand holding an art book titled “Good Faeries” by Brian Froud. Cover contains illustrations of whimsical faeries.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Holding a book cover of “Cuando Era Puertorriqueña” (“When I was Puerto Rican”) by Esmeralda Santiago. Cover art features closeup of a young girl looking at the viewer with background of a Puerto Rican landscape.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I also have a preview of my next book MISS CAMPER in person if ya wanna take a sneak peek! (An unboxing video & ARC giveaway coming soon!) #kidlit

Author holding her book “Miss Camper” published by scholastic Graphix

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hey y’all! Catch me at San Antonio Zine Fest today~ I made some cute handmade ornaments that need a good home 🥲💖

A festive exhibitor table at San Antonio Zine Fest featuring zines, latine culture stickers, books. Books such as La Raza Anthology, Miss Quinces, Srta Quinces and the Isle of the Lost graphic novel. And zines such as “Gringa” and “Dating on the Spectrum: Finding my Autism through polyamory in my 30s”

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Holding a comic book cover of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: Brief Lives Volume 7” illustrated by Jill Thompson & Vince Locke. Afterword by Peter Straub. Published by Vertigo. Cover art depicts a distorted face put together by a collage of photographed faces.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Self intro: Hey! I'm Kat and I love making art based on themes of self-acceptance and Latine culture. In addition to making book covers, chapter art, and graphic novels, I also make goofy diary comics. Lately, I've been into art journaling, roller-skating, and collecting bugs! 🤓 #kidlit

An illustration featuring the artist Kat posing with two dogs names Mac and Roni. Under her name is written her pronouns, she/they, her birthday January 16th, her horoscope Capricorn and four flags: American, Honduran, Colombian, LGBTQAI+, and the autism symbol. Coming out of her mouth are two word balloons with illustrations inside them: one for things she likes like Minions, comic books, DJing, Anime, and her dogs. While the second balloon is of things she dislikes like wet socks, the deep ocean, car sickness, and racists & sexists. Below the word balloons are a list of her top 5 movies: The fifth element, Amelie, Legally Blonde, Spirited Away, and Trolls. And below her caricature are her work tools: her ipad, a sketchbook, a pencil, an eraser and a minions pencil case.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Holding a book cover with the title “Made in China” by Reed Darmon. Cover art features a painting of an Asian woman holding a metal tin with an elaborate label.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Working on pet ornament commissions during this time of the year is always so fun. It’s been a nice little break from working on books (not that I’m complaining!). I still have slots open if anyone is looking to get one for the holidays: www.etsy.com/listing/1125...

A workspace with wooden ornaments painted with base colors. A pack of acrylic paints of various colors, a paint brush bowl, and a paint palette sit in the background.

A closeup of the wooden ornament with an outline of a cat and light colors.

More detailed cat portrait on a wooden ornament.

A hand holding a finalized painted portrait of a white cat. In the background are paint tubes, a water cup and papers on a desk.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Holding a Graphic novel cover of “Perla La Loca: A Love and Rockets Book” by Jaime Hernandez. Cover design depicts three scenes from the series: top image is a crowd of punks cheering; bottom left image is of a Perla sitting down, holding a purse; the bottom right image is of a wall covered in missing person flyers of two people, one is of Hopey Glass with the words “Have you seen me” written above their pictures.

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Kat Fajardo @katfcomix.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 #booksky #books #bookchallenge 📚💕

Cover of “Teen Titans: Year One” comic book published by DC. Credits: Amy Wolfram, Karl Kerschl, Serge Lapointe. Illustration features the characters Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl and Aqualad running. Behind them is a silhouette of Wonder Woman, Batman, Aquaman and The Flash.

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