Jessica Abel is the author of Soundtrack and * Mirror, Window,two collections that gather stories and drawings from her comic book Artbabe,which she published between 1992 and 1999. She also collaborated with Ira Glass on Radio: An Illustrated Guide,a nonfiction comic about how the public radio pro...

Jessica Abel is the author of Soundtrack and * Mirror, Window,two collections that gather stories and drawings from her comic book Artbabe,which she published between 1992 and 1999. She also collaborated with Ira Glass on Radio: An Illustrated Guide,a nonfiction comic about how the public radio program This American Life is made. Abel won both the Harvey and Lulu awards for Best New Talent in 1997; La Perdida won the 2002 Harvey Award for Best New Series. Abel's young adult novel, Carmina,is forthcoming in 2007, and she is currently collaborating on another graphic novel, Life Sucks,* and a textbook about making comics.