1. Jessica Abel held administrative positions including Assistant to the Associate Dean and graduate and undergraduate chairs at SAIC.
10 Facts About Jessica Abel
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Jessica Abel has stated that her major work Artbabe is not autobiographical.
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Each issue of Artbabe contained one or more complete stories; Jessica Abel did not begin any longer sequential work until La Perdida in 2000.
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In 1998, Jessica Abel moved to Mexico City with her boyfriend, now husband, comics artist Matt Madden.
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Jessica Abel revised the text for its compilation and publication in 2006 as a hardcover volume by Pantheon Books.
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Jessica Abel taught undergraduate cartooning courses at the School of Visual Arts for a number of years, and gave workshops at other locations, such as Ox-Bow Summer School of Art.
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The book was a product of the years Jessica Abel and Madden spent as teachers, and is a comprehensive manual on creating comics.
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That same year, Jessica Abel collaborated on Life Sucks, written with Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece.
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In 2015, Jessica Abel published a sequel to her 1999 comic Radio: An Illustrated Guide called "Out On The Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio".
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On June 7,2016 Jessica Abel announced that she was returning to the United States to accept a position as chair of the brand-new illustration department at PAFA, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.