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Jessica Abel is an indie cartoonist turned founder of Autonomous Creative, a creative business coaching company. Jessica is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has published a dozen books and graphic novels including Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life and Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio. She specializes in helping other mid-career creatives build financially sustainable businesses without burning themselves out or sacrificing their creative integrity.

Super-short version:

Jessica Abel is an indie cartoonist turned entrepreneur who has published more than a dozen books and graphic novels, taught in art colleges for 20+ years, and built a business from scratch: Autonomous Creative. She specializes in helping other mid-career creatives build financially sustainable businesses without burning themselves out or sacrificing their creative integrity.

Longer version:

Jessica Abel is an indie cartoonist turned founder of Autonomous Creative, a creative business coaching company.

She is author of the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics. Her book and podcast Out on the Wire is about how the best radio producers in the world use story to keep us listening.

Jessica has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level for 20+ years, and is chair of the Illustration Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

In her flagship program, the Autonomous Creative Incubator, she specializes in helping other mid-career creatives build financially sustainable businesses without burning themselves out or sacrificing their creative integrity.