Kat Fajardo is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator based in NYC. A graduate of The School of Visual Arts, she's editor of La Raza Anthology and creator of Bandida Comics series. She's created work for Penguin Random House on The First Rule of Punk (written by Celia C. Pérez), CollegeHumor, and several comic anthologies. You can find her working at her Brooklyn studio creating playful and colorful work about self-acceptance and Latinx culture. 

Direct inquiries to my agent at [email protected]  

(Literary Agent |  Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency)

Awards + Grants

CXC Emerging Talent Award 2017

MICExpo mini-grant 2016

Publications

• 2018 Disney-Hyperion 
• 2017 Penguin Random House
• 2016-2017 La Raza Anthology
• 2016 Cicada Magazine
• 2016 Dirty Diamonds Anthology
  
• 2016 Sweaty Palms Zine
  
• 2014-2017 CollegeHumor
  
• 2012­-2014 Symbolia Magazine
  
• 2013 BARTKIRA
  
• ​2013 Strange Paradise Zine
  
• 2013 The White Asylum 
  
• 2012 Monster Mash Anthology
  
• 2012 Hope Mountain Magazine #3
  
• 2012­-2015 SVA INK Magazine
  
• 2011 SVA Visual Opinion Mag 

Reviews/Interviews 

• 2016 Sweaty Palms Zine
  
• 2016 El Hispanic News
  
• 2016 School Library Journal 
  
• 2016 Women Write About Comics
  
• 2015 Huffington Post Latino Voices
  
• 2015 Latina Magazine
  
• 2015 Vivala
  
• 2013 Symbolia Magazine

Exhibitions/Group shows

• 2016 ​Artists Assemble! Empowerment and Inspiration in Contemporary Comics,​ Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA)
• 2016 ​Cartoon Art Annual Show​, Society of Illustrators (Long­form comics category)
  
• 2016 Peanuts Gallery (Charlie Brown Homage Show), Meltdown Comics LA
• 2015 ​She Blinded Me With Science​, Gowanus Print Lab show
  
• 2015 ​Life's a Beach​, Gowanus Print Lab show
  
• 2013 ​Comic Ink, ​Locust Moon Comics Gallery show
  
• 2013 ​NYC ​Artists for Sandy Hook, ​Healing Newtown exhibit
  
• 2012 ​Man­Made Monsters, ​The School of Visual Arts Gallery
  
• 2008 ​Arboretum, ​Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS