Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that ar…

- Jessica Abel

When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way t…

- Jessica Abel

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize…

- Jessica Abel

When you draw in a tight, controlled style, you open yourself up to - in my case, my own - criticism that things aren't quite right. If room is drawn…

- Jessica Abel

It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the medium - arising out of cheaply-re…

- Jessica Abel

I don't think comics use iconic forms - or they don't have to. But that makes them even more "cool," if I understand the idea. One has to be quite in…

- Jessica Abel

Why does the need to explain comics still exist? Because that prejudice still exists. It's fading, but it's still very strong. It's important to keep…

- Jessica Abel

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a s…

- Jessica Abel

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information. My str…

- Jessica Abel