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Abel, Jessica
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Artist's official site. Online comics and art samples, artist biography, bookshop, and a guide to creating comics.
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*~A R T B A B E O N L I N E ENTER THE ARTBABE WEB SITE...Publisher's page, with book catalog and image gallery.
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Jessica Abel She uses comics like a tool, observing, documenting, examining the social dynamics of a free floating crowd of young, urban, pleasure seeking bar hoppers. Her writing, in combination with her crisp, precise, stylishly assured drawings, chronicle the shifting relationships between...Emily Hall reviews La Perdida.
http://www.thestranger.com/current/books.html
Excerpt from interview by Robert Boyd.
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The Comics Journal: Interviews For those of us who follow the minicomics scene, the sudden success of artists like Adrian Tomine and Jason Lutes came as no surprise. I predict that the next young cartoonist (only 26) to make this leap into the public...Six-page comics interview/profile of Sports Illustrated president Michael J. Klingensmith, written and illustrated by Abel.
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The University of Chicago Magazine: April 2000, Features Michael treats her to a weekend itinerary of a lot of fun and games. Page One Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six APRIL 2000 Volume 92, Number 4 CAMPUS NEWS Chicago Journal College Report CLASS NOTES...Collection of short stories and early work reviewed by Ronald Montgomery.
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SAVANT Essential Nothing used to be better than going out to the clubs with my friends and seeing a show, or dancing until two in the morning. Then we would go to Denny’s or whatever place was open all night, stake out...Audio interview with Abel and Trina Robbins. [Requires RealAudio]
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Studio 360 This Week Andersen and writer and cartoonist Art Spiegelman talk about the narrative and artistic spell of comics. The Escapist: Michael Chabon The author of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, tells us how comics reveal unintended...Interview by Alana Kumbier on La Perdida.
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Bitch Lost and Delirious, by Alana Kumbier After publishing nine issues of her Harvey Award-winning comic Artbabe, Abel and her work became synonymous with the narratives and contexts in which she placed her characters in the eyes of some fans and critics. These are the reasons why,...Reviews of several works.
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Optical Sloth Small Press Comic Emporium This looked like it had mostly fat panels, that it would take me about an hour at the most to finish Instead I just spent at least the last 2 and a half hours poring over every panel in this...