Sabrina Jones

A native of Philadelphia, Sabrina came to New York to study painting at Pratt Institute, later getting an MFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts. She joined the feminist art group, Carnival Knowledge, in making activist art about reproductive freedom. She began to create comics on women's issues for the political comic book World War 3 Illustrated, and went on to edit many issues, most recently Female Complaints, Bitchcraft and Life During Wartime.

In the 90’s she co-founded and edited Girltalk, an anthology of women’s autobio comics, and contributed to five issues, published by Fantagraphics Books.

For Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, she wrote and illustrated a comic on the Paterson silk workers' strike of 1913.

With The Real Cost of Prisons Project, she created the comic, Prisoners of the War on Drugs.

Illustration clients include: The New York Times, Bust, Citylimits, Tikkun, InxArt and the Funny Papers of Philadelphia. Her illustrations are in the Graphic Artists Guild's Directory of Illustration #21 and 2003 Student Illustration Annual, sponsored by 3X3 Magazine.

Recent exhibitions in New York: PPOW Gallery, Here Art Center, Exit Art, Visual Arts Gallery, Theater for the New City, The Society of Illustrators, Judson Memorial Church, and ABC No Rio. Her work travelled in the exhibit She Draws Comics, from the Secession Gallery in Vienna, to a Spanish comics festival, and the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Also: Babel Comics convention in Athens; Ladyfest Bristol in England; James Dupree gallery in Philadelphia.

Sabrina paints scenery for film, theater and television, as a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.