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“Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize a story are very different, and include not only drawing and writing dialogue and narration, but graphic design and the ability to depict time passing visually. It's a whole suite of skills that has to go into making a comics page, skills that are quite distinct from those that go into writing a page of prose, or making a film.”

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Jessica Abel

Jessica Abel, born in 1969, is a renowned comic book writer. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound social insights, which have won her a dedicated following. more

“I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but I have hit points where I want to quit because cartooning is just too hard, too demanding an art form. Basically, there's nothing to be done about that but to keep going (if you're in the middle of something), or stop for a while and do other things while you wait for your motivation to return.”

Art Done Motivation Waiting Quitting Keep Going Lost Faith

Author:Jessica Abel

“I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so much interested in forcing the issue of reader identification through various graphic tricks. I'm more interested in creating specific characters that resonate with my own particular inner struggles.”

Trying Mind Different Character Struggle Strategy Various Graphic

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.”

Effort Complicated Spontaneous

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.”

Imagine

Author:Daniel Clowes