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.