Jessica Abel

Jessica Abel is a Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and author, and business coach for accomplished creative professionals. Her books include the graphic novel La Perdida, Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio, the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars, and Growing Gills. With Matt Madden, she co-created the comics textbooks Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. A former professor and chair of illustration at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she is the founder of Autonomous Creative, where she helps her clients build expertise-based businesses that generate reliable income and protect time for the work that defines them.