CIMARRON - THE WILD ONE

Cimarron is a 192-page hardcover graphic novel that turns the extraordinary life of polar explorer Dwayne?Fields, the first Black Briton to reach the North?Pole into a mythic odyssey of escape and self-belief. Borrowed from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning “wild” or “untamed,” the title honours all who break free from oppression. At six, Dwayne is torn from his grandmother’s rainforest home in Jamaica and dropped into hard-edged 1990s North?London, where survival demands invisibility. Years later, a knife attack reignites the feral courage he buried; determined to reclaim himself, he treks across deserts, mountains and, finally, the polar ice, discovering that the hardest journey is back to who you really are. Scripted by Canneseries winner Sophie?McVeigh and painted by Broken Frontier “Six to Watch” artist Shuning?Ji, Cimarron fuses gritty memoir with flashes of fantastical vision, offering a visually striking testament to resilience for readers of Persepolis and March.