Jessica Abel - from the Archive

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S.W. Conser, Bill Dodge

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Program::

Words and Pictures

Air date:

Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:15am to 12:45pm

Comics artist and teacher Jessica Abel visits Portland in 2006 with her graphic novel La Perdida and talks with S.W. Conser and Bill Dodge on Words and Pictures on KBOO Radio

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We're traveling back to 2006 to talk with award-winning comics storyteller Jessica Abel

Artist, author, professor and creative coach Jessica Abel visited Portland in 2006 for the second annual Wordstock Literary Festival, where she unveiled her epic graphic novel La Perdida. Jessica took the time to sit down with Bill Dodge and S.W. Conser to muse about youthful adventurism, cross-cultural exchanges, graphic storytelling, and teaching the art of comics.