3 Quotes & Sayings By Jessica Abel

Jessica Abel is the author of the graphic novels "B. D. Gallofreya" and "Phoebe and Her Unicorn", published by Fantagraphics Books. Her work has appeared in magazines including The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine Read more

She was a co-founder of the Meekatharra Writers' Festival in Australia, which she helped produce for six years before moving to Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist James Kochalka.

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I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it’s just too late for me. And that this book isn’t working, nothing’s working, everything feels like it’s made of spiders. Jessica Abel
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My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture. Jessica Abel