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 90s she co-founded and edited Girltalk, an anthology
of womens 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.