Jessica Abel Drew the Books on Storytelling

Jessica Abel is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop and Autonomous Creative Collective, and author of "Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life," the graphic novel "La Perdida," and two textbooks about maki...

Jessica Abel is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop and Autonomous Creative Collective, and author of "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.

Find out more about the different story formulas discussed in this episode at

jessicaabel.com/xy-story-formula

Check out her newly released Creative Focus Workshop at creativefocusworkshop.com

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