Feb. 17, 2010
Graphic Novelist Jessica Abel to Appear at Marshall University Feb. 25
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Writer and artist Jessica Abel will read from her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. The reading kicks off Abel’s weekend appearance in the Walter Gropius Masters Workshop Series at the Huntington Museum of Art Feb. 26 through Feb. 28.
Abel is the author of five books. La Perdida (Pantheon, 2006), a graphic novel thriller set in Mexico City, was recognized with a “Best New Series” Harvey Award and has since been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.
Abel’s breakout work, Artbabe, won the “Best New Talent” Harvey and Lulu Awards in the late 1990s. She subsequently published Soundtrack and Mirror, Window (Fantagraphics Books), two collections derived from Artbabe. In collaboration with host Ira Glass, she has also created “Radio: An Illustrated Guide,” a non-fiction comic about how the public radio show This American Life is produced.
Abel’s most recent books are a vampire romantic comedy called Life Sucks and, in collaboration with her husband, Matt Madden, a comics textbook called Drawing Words, Writing Pictures. Abel’s upcoming projects include a prose novel for teenagers and a script for a graphic novel about roller derby on Mars.
She is co-series editor (with Madden) of The Best American Comics, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. The Chicago-area native lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn.
Her appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Art Stringer in Marshall’s English Department at 304-696-2403.
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Graphic Novelist Jessica Abel to Appear at Marshall University Feb. 25
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Writer and artist Jessica Abel will read from her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 in Room 2W16 of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall University’s Huntington campus. The reading kicks off Abel’s weekend appearance in the Walter Gropius Masters Workshop Series at the Huntington Museum of Art Feb. 26 through Feb. 28.
Abel is the author of five books. La Perdida (Pantheon, 2006), a graphic novel thriller set in Mexico City, was recognized with a “Best New Series” Harvey Award and has since been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.
Abel’s breakout work, Artbabe, won the “Best New Talent” Harvey and Lulu Awards in the late 1990s. She subsequently published Soundtrack and Mirror, Window (Fantagraphics Books), two collections derived from Artbabe. In collaboration with host Ira Glass, she has also created “Radio: An Illustrated Guide,” a non-fiction comic about how the public radio show This American Life is produced.
Abel’s most recent books are a vampire romantic comedy called Life Sucks and, in collaboration with her husband, Matt Madden, a comics textbook called Drawing Words, Writing Pictures. Abel’s upcoming projects include a prose novel for teenagers and a script for a graphic novel about roller derby on Mars.
She is co-series editor (with Madden) of The Best American Comics, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. The Chicago-area native lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn.
Her appearance is sponsored by the Marshall English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the West Virginia Humanities Council. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Art Stringer in Marshall’s English Department at 304-696-2403.
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