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Bio

Cartoonist and creative mentor Jessica Abel is the founder of the Autonomous Creative Collective. She works with ambitious mid-career creative pros and businesses stop grinding and carve out the deep focus needed to finish—and launch—the game-changing work they want to be known for.

Jessica is the author of a dozen books, including 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. Her book Out on the Wire is about how the best radio and podcast producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Jessica’s latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. She is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.