Jessica Abel - 90s Mini Comics Oral History Archives

09/12/24 • 67 min

Jessica Abel is cartoonist, author, and creative coach known for her extensive contributions to the comics world. From mini-comics such as Art Babe, to longer format comics such as La Perdida, as well as two textbooks about making comics, Abel has been a notable name in the comics community since the 90s when she began making minis.

The 90s Mini Comics Oral History aims to collect the stories of ANYONE who made self-published mini-comics in the roughly 10 years before the broad acceptance of the internet (the 90’s, give or take.)

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Leela Corman - 90s Mini Comics Oral History Archives

Leela Corman is a painter, educator, and graphic novel creator, working in the realm of diaspora Ashkenazi culture. third-generation restorative work, and New York City history.

Her books include the graphic novels Victory Parade, a story about WWII, women's wrestling, and the astral plane over Buchenwald (Schocken/Pantheon, 2024), Unterzakhn (Schocken/Pantheon, 2012), which was nominated for the Eisner, the L.A. Times Book Award, and Le Prix Artemisia, and won the ROMICS Prize for Best Anglo-American Comic and the MoCCA Award of Excellence, and the short comics collections You Are Not A Guest (Field Mouse Press, 2023) and We All Wish For Deadly Force (Retrofit/Big Planet, 2016). Her short comics have appeared in The Believer Magazine, Nautilus, The Nib, Bandcamp, and other publications. She is a founding instructor at Sequential Artists Workshop, a Yaddo Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and the recipient of the Xeric Grant, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, the Helix Fellowship, the Koyama Provides Grant, and the 2024 New Jewish Culture Fellowship. Raised in New York City, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is an assistant professor at Rhode Island School of Design. http://www.leelacorman.com

Bluesky: @leelacorman.bsky.social

Instagram: @leelacorman

Art:

http://www.leelacorman.com/

Support Her Work:

https://www.patreon.com/leela

Order her books:

https://www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/you-are-not-a-guest

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552601/victory-parade-by-leela-corman/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32003/unterzakhn-by-leela-corman/

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Vjeran Pavlakovic - 90s Mini Comics Oral History Archives

Vjeran Pavlaković is a historian and professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka. He received his doctorate in 2005 at the University of Washington. He lives in Zagreb, Croatia. In the 90s and early 2000s, Vjeran created mini-comics and zines under the name "Verno the Inferno". He is also a contributer to the alternative comics publisher Komikaze. Thanks so much for listening!