Jessica Abel





Jessica Abel

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born
January 01, 1869 in Chicago, The United States

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Jessica Abel (Chicago, 1969) started making comics in college, at the University of Chicago. Her early efforts appeared in the student anthology Breakdown. After college, in 1992, she won the infamous “Stinky Date” contest in Peter Bagge’s Hate comics, and, since she had arranged to meet the artist at the Chicago Comics Convention, she decided to put together a sampler of her comics to show him and his publisher, Fantagraphics. She printed 50 copies of Artbabe #1, but Fantagraphics editor Gary Groth, who claims not to remember this encounter, didn’t take the bait. Four issues (and four years) later, she won a Xeric grant, put out the first full-sized and professionally printed issue of Artbabe, and thus finally appeared on Groth’s radar. Sh...more


Average rating: 3.51 · 3,593 ratings · 694 reviews · 17 distinct works
La Perdida
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Life Sucks
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Soundtrack: Short Stories '...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2001
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Mirror, Window: Artbabe Coll
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1996
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Radio: An Illustrated Guide
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1999
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Mastering Comics: Drawing W...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012
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Artbabe
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999
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La Perdida #1, 3-5 Pack
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“My theory is that if you look confident, you can pull off anything-even if you have no clue what you're doing”
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