The Keluarga Cable Ship Company​

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More than 99 percent of intercontinental telecommunications, including internet traffic, is carried by fibre-optic cables running along the bed of the world’s seas. Indeed, this digital comic is likely coming to you through the oceans. This vast and delicate network, the bedrock of modern life and its burgeoning technologies, is maintained by a small fleet of repair ships that keeps the world online.

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Past and present collide when a software engineer arrives on one such ship, where his father works. Old wounds are torn open - can this connection be repaired?

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This continuous scroll comic unfolds across three separate but interlinked channels of action. The freeflow form invites readers to approach the story in different ways, separately, one by one, top down, or all at once.

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"The visual storytelling is extremely powerful with moments of mirroring imagery that connects each strand while emphasising the emotional impact... Absorbing, entertaining and heartfelt." - Comic Book News UK

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"Fajardo is thinking about comics as a medium not beholden to any existing rules to do its storytelling, and we as readers ought to try to do the same." - Arpad Okay, Doomrocket

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Digital continuous scroll comic made for the 2025 LDComics Online Fair, and available here.

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I wrote this article for Broken Frontier about the ideas behind the comic.