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Meridian Fronds

— Michael Hawkins

Graphic storytelling

from Check Points
Published by Glom Press

Michael Hawkins is a visual artist and storyteller specialising in comics and Risography. His work has appeared in such publications as The Lifted Brow, Archer and Fireflies as well as a bunch of local and international anthologies. He has been self-publishing comics and zines for several decades, before co-founding and publishing with Glom Press.

About the publisher

Glom Press is an award-winning comics publisher and risograph press based in Thornbury, Victoria. It was started in 2016 out of a share-house with an aim to fill a gap in the Australian book industry between self-published zines and graphic novels, offering opportunities for emerging and established creators to hone and diversify their craft. Glom is co-run by four cartoonists: Bailey Sharp, Michael Hawkins, Marc Pearson and Ben Juers. Their first collection of six books, published in 2018, won silver and bronze Comic Arts Awards of Australia (CAAA). In 2021 Glom produced a second six-book collection with support from Creative Victoria, and won a Platinum CAAA award for contributions to the Australian comics community.

In 2024, Glom is excited to be launching a new project titled Partworks, also supported by Creative Victoria, focused on serialised titles and long-form storytelling. Glom Press is also publishing individual works by each member of the Glom Press team, of which this is one.

This is an excerpt from Meridian Fronds, which will be published later in 2024 by Glom Press.