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Jessica Abel & Matt Madden - Drawing Words & Writing Pictures
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Time: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:00 p.m.
Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Jessica Abel & Matt Madden's Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels is a how-to guide for comic construction. Based on the classes taught by Abel and Madden at the School of Visual Arts, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures offers a comprehensive course covering every aspect of comic creation, from story creation to panel layout and everything in between. Winner of both the Harvey and Lulu Awards for Best New Talent in 1997, Jessica Abel is the author of Soundtrack and Mirror, Window, two comic collections culled from her comic book series, Artbabe. Her La Perdida won the Harvey Award for Best New Series and was excerpted in 2006’s Best American Comics. She resides in Brooklyn, NY. Matt Madden is a comics creator and teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts. He is the creator of the graphic novels Black Candy, Odds Off, and A Fine Mess, and of the comics theory book 99 Ways to Tell a Story. He is the co-editor (with Jessica Abel) of the Best American Comics series. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond(Trade Paperback)
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Abel, Jessica,
Madden, Matt
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$29.95
Published: First Second, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
"A gold mine of essential information for every aspiring comics artist. Highly recommended." --Scott McCloud "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures" is a course on comic creation ? for college classes or for independent study ? that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered ? each complete with homework, extra credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions ? provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics. Additional resources, lessons, and after-class help are available on the accompanying website, www.dw-wp.com.
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La Perdida(Trade Paperback)
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Abel, Jessica
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.95
Published: Pantheon Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
From the Harvey and Lulu award-winning creator of "Artbabe" comes this riveting story of a young woman's misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to "find herself." She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is good--humored about Carla's reappearance on his doorstep--until he realizes that Carla, who spends her days soaking in the city, exploring Frida Kahlo's house, and learning Spanish, has no intention of leaving.
When Harry and Carla's relationship of mutual tolerance reaches its inevitable end, she rejects his world of Anglo expats for her own set of friends: pretty-boy Oscar, who sells pot and dreams of being a DJ, and charismatic Memo, a left-wing, pseudo-intellectual ladies' man. Determined to experience the real Mexico, Carla turns a blind eye to her new friends' inconsistencies. But then she catches the eye of a drug don, el Gordo, and from that moment on her life gets a lot more complicated, and she is forced to confront the irreparable consequences of her willful innocence.
Jessica Abel's evocative black-and-white drawings and creative mix of English and Spanish bring Mexico City's past and present to life, unfurling Carla's dark history against the legacies of Burroughs and Kahlo. A story about the youthful desire to live an authentic life and the consequences of trusting easy answers, "La Perdida"-at once grounded in the particulars of life in Mexico and resonantly universal-is a story about finding oneself by getting lost. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Life Sucks(Trade Paperback)
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Abel, Jessica,
Soria, Gabriel,
Pleece, Warren
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$19.99
Published: First Second, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Life sucks for Dave Marshall. The girl he's in love with doesn't know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can't go out in daylight without starting to charbroil. Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural drama told with gallons of humor and hemoglobin. In striking, colorful, B-movie sty;e artwork and light-hearted, intelligent writing by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, and Warren Pleece, Dave Marshall's story comes alive - in a vampiric kind of way.
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Soundtrack: Short Stories '90-'96(Trade Paperback)
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Abel, Jessica
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$12.95
Published: Fantagraphics Books, 2002
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Soundtrack collects the best of Jessica Abel's self-published Artbabe series, one of the most exciting comic books to emerge in the late-1990s. Abel's stories intuitive ear for dialogue and characterization have made Artbabe a hit among people of all ages, especially women, and her painterly brushstrokes have drawn comparisons to European masters like lose Munoz and Blutch.
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Mirror, Window: Artbabe Coll.(Trade Paperback)
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Abel, Jessica
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$12.95
Published: Fantagraphics Books, 1996
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
The stories in her are peppered with hipsters, piercings, trendy haircuts, and cutting-edge fashion.
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