Cartoonist and writer JESSICA ABEL is the author of two textbooks about making comics,Drawing Words & Writing PicturesandMastering Comics, written in collaboration with her husband, the cartoonist Matt Madden. She is also the author of the graphic novelLa Perdidaand a new science fiction comics series calledTrish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars.
Praise for Jessica Abel's Out on the Wire
A Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015
A Tech Times Best Comic of 2015
“A boundary-pushing comic, a love letter from one blossoming new
media to another...Out on the Wire is a terrific book for radio
superfans and would-be producers, a niche audience that isn't so
niche anymore.”—Los Angeles Times
“With comics and podcasts both on the rise, it’s a perfect time for
a media collision: Abel investigates modern narrative radio and its
stars.” –Entertainment Weekly
“One of fall's coolest graphic reads...Consider the 240 pages a
documentary comic and Abel your host.”—Marie Claire
“What makes [Out on the Wire] especially fascinating is
its use of visuals to represent an aural form; not only are we
reading behind-the-scenes stories of what we eventually hear, but
we get a rare glimpse of what the people and places in them look
like thanks to the not-often-enough-used comics journalism.”
—Chicagoreader.com
“This instructive, impassioned, and educational volume uses a
deliberate and friendly approach in the vein of Scott McCloud… A
must-read not just for listeners of today’s great flowering of
audio storytelling but for those who want to learn how to do it
themselves.”—Publishers Weekly
“A richly engaging graphic narrative about radio storytelling and
storytelling in general… A spirited work whose readership should
not be limited to those who make radio narrative or love to listen
to it.” —Kirkus Reviews [starred]
“Abel (La Perdida) has performed a metamasterpiece by reporting
with visual finesse and detail the complicated and sometimes
precarious process behind public radio shows such as Radiolab and
This American Life… Indispensible for communications collections
and a valuable asset for anyone considering a career in media.”
—Library Journal [starred]
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