Sign up for her Creative Focus Workshop, check out her website and connect with her on Twitter and Facebook. She is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Jessica’s latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. Her book Out on the Wire is about how the best radio and podcast producers in the world use story to keep us listening. About Jessica AbelĬartoonist and coach Jessica Abel is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop, and author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. The power of planning and creating your own rules.Dealing with external and internal nay-sayers.The myth of the muse and “right brain versus left brain”.

Hey there word nerds! Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jessica Abel.Ĭartoonist and coach Jessica is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop, and author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics.

Trish Trash #1 by Jessica Abel