Jessica Abel Quotes

#1. How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

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#2. I work daily, but not always on comics. I'm doing quite a bit of writing now, and I teach as well.

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#3. I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it's just too late for me. And that this book isn't working, nothing's working, everything feels like it's made of spiders.

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#4. When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

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#5. It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.

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#6. What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

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#7. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

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#8. It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

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