Kat Fajardo

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National bestselling & award-winning cartoonist. Creator of MISS QUINCES (out now!) (Scholastic Graphix) and illustrator of THE KIDS IN MRS Z'S CLASS. Rep. Linda Camacho (She/they) 🌈 www.katfajardo.com 🌈 linktr.ee/katfcomix (âŹ…ïž Preorder link)

Artist Kat Fajardo holding up a 8x8 inches painting of two cartoon lechuzas, a shapeshifting witch into owls.
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."
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.
Artist holding a copy of The Texas Observer magazine
A medium size dog stretching on a bed while wearing a donut collar
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.
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.
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.
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.
A hand holding a book called “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries” a novel by Heather Fawlett. Cover illustration has flowers, mushrooms, and snowflakes.
A hand holding a book called “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller. Cover depicts an illustration of an Ancient Greek helmet.
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.
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.
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
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.
Hand holding an art book titled “Good Faeries” by Brian Froud. Cover contains illustrations of whimsical faeries.
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.
Author holding her book “Miss Camper” published by scholastic Graphix
Balloons spelling out the words SAZF
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An illustration of “La Sirena” (the mermaid) card next to the original Lotería card (Mexican playing card game). In the background is a case of watercolor paint.
Holding a book cover for “The Island of Dr. Moreau” by H.G Wells. Illustration features a woman in silhouette with her eyes glowing while playing a pan flute and has a snake wrapped around her neck. She is surrounded by jungle plants and behind her is a lake with a dark forest beyond that. Next to her stands ax exotic bird.
Holding a comic book cover of Mike Allred’s “Madman Adventures”. Cover illustration features characters from the series floating in space, hovering over the planet earth.
Graphic novel page from”Speak Up” by a Rebecca Burgess showing the main character Mia at a concert with her mother and feeling overstimulated by the heat, the smells and the loud noise of people talking around her. She starts to stim with her hands but her mom stops her. Mia starts to feel sick & shouts that she wants to go home in the big concert crowd.
Holding a book entitled “Kitaro” by Shigeru Mizuki. It features an illustration of a young boy with one eye covered by his hair and wearing a striped vest, T-shirt, shorts and sandals. Sitting on his head is an eyeball.
A cover of the graphic novel “The Hidden” by Richard Sala. The illustration features a tall ghoulish main in a top hat and fancy dark jacket and scarf walking while looking back. Below him sits a small crevice inside a big rock with a scared man hidden from the ghoul’s view.
Illustration of a girl placing a dutch oven of caldo de res (Mexican beef stew) on a table covered with bowls of food, and a vase of marigolds. Over to the left standing on the counter tops, a black dog grabs bowls from a cabinet while a small chihuahua grabs a ladle & an empty bowl.
Holding a chapter book titled “Magic Treehouse: #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark” by Mary Pope Osborne. Illustration depicts a young boy riding a pterodactyl up in the air while looking behind at his little sister, who is running after him. The background shows a volcanoes erupting and surrounded by jungle.
Book cover for “Story and Art by Kazuo Umezu: Cat Eyed Boy, Volume One”. Illustration of a character in silhouette with cat eyes staring at the viewer. Under the title is the titular cat eyed boy with an extended hand out as a scary figure is in the middle of grabbing him from behind.
Young girl standing in the middle, holding a sketch pad and a pencil with a fluffy ball. Behind the girl is a cityscape of the Bronx. The title “Doodles from the Boogie Down” and the author’s name Stephanie Rodriguez written on the skyline.
A panel table with mics as cartoonist Kat Fajardo looks down at her paper as she speaks into the mic. Panel guest Erin Cotter looking over.
Headed font of the image says “Love through the ages: historical romance” over “YA HQ tent” on Sunday, November 17 at 4:00pm-4:45pm. Two images of the book covers for “By Any Other Name” by Erin Cotter and “A Queen’s Game” by Katherine McGee, are accompanied by the authors’ portraits. On the very bottom is rhetorical logo for the Texas Book Festival.