About
Jackie Roche is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator specializing in nonfiction comics about history and current events. She works both independently and in collaboration with writers and journalists.
Clients include:
Blunderbuss Magazine, Crain’s Chicago Business, Columbia Magazine, Firefly Books, Harvard University Library, LA News Group, Symbolia, The Cartoon Picayune, The Nib, and The Nib in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, VICE News, Wishing Step Pictures.
Comics in anthologies: Colonial Comics: New England, 1750 – 1775 (vol. II), Irene #4, Irene #6, Unknown Origins and Untimely Ends, Then it was Dark, Sweaty Palms, Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, vol. 1.
Jackie has previously written online course material for Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and she designed and taught Art, Comics, and Transformative Journalism, a multidisciplinary workshop-style course at Cornell College.
Jackie graduated from the University of Hartford honors program summa cum laude in 2009 with majors in illustration and American history, and earned her MFA at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). Despite half-tuition scholarships at both institutions, she carries an amount of student loan debt that precludes her from recommending either program.
Jackie lives in New Haven, CT with her partner and works a day job in financial tech.
See her CV page.
Interview: Q+A with Josh Kramer of The Cartoon Picayune
Contact
For freelance inquiries:
jackie.a.roche [at] gmail dot com
Rates
I use the current Graphic Artists' Guild Pricing and Ethical Guidelines Handbook to determine my rates.
Please get in touch to work out a project rate for illustrations or longform work, or a day rate for teaching, event, or on-location work.
I do not do spec. work.