Jessica Abel

Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel is the author of the new
graphic novel La Perdida (Pantheon Books).
Previously, she published Soundtrack and
Mirror, Window (Fantagraphic Books) , two
collections that gather stories and drawings from her comic
book Artbabe, which she published between 1992
and 1999. She also collaborated with Ira Glass on
Radio: An Illustrated Guide, a non-fiction
comic about how the radio show This American
Life is made. Abel won both the Harvey and Lulu
awards for "Best New Talent" in 1997; La
Perdida won the 2002 "Best New Series" Harvey Award.
Abel’s Young Adult novel Carmina is forthcoming
from HarperCollins in 2007; she is collaborating on another
graphic novel, Life Sucks, due out from First
Second in 2007; and she is working with her husband, the
cartoonist Matt Madden, on a textbook about making comics.
She lives in Brooklyn.