Molly Crabapple
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Molly Crabapple is an American
artist, author and entrepreneur.
The AP Wire once compared her work to "limerick shared amongst good company in a Victorian parlor."
after majoring in Illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology
(A.A.S. Illustration)
. She was at one time a regular contributor to Coagula Art Journal
.
She has also worked on a number of comics
(often with writer John Leavitt), creating the graphic novel
Scarlett Takes Manhattan, drawing stories for two Marvel
anthologies Strange Tales
vol. 2 and Girl Comics
vol. 2, as well as providing art for the webcomic
s Backstage at Act-i-vate
and Puppet Makers at Zuda.
in Brooklyn in 2005. Dr. Sketchy's is a burlesque
life-drawing class. It has since been covered on National Public Radio, The Washington Post
the Onion AV Club, the BBC
, Time Out London and Time Out New York.
Beginning in July 2006, Dr. Sketchy's began opening branches in other cities, which now number 50.
She is also the author (with John Leavitt
) of The Official Dr. Sketchy's Rainy Day Colouring Book.
The funding amount originally requested was $4,500; the actual final amount is $25,805 meaning that she received almost six times the amount originally requested. The project will use live web-cam feeds, a hired photographer and hired videographer and two hundred (200) fine tip permanent markers. The markers will also be awarded to backers as a return on the investment pledge.
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artist, author and entrepreneur.
The AP Wire once compared her work to "limerick shared amongst good company in a Victorian parlor."
Early life
Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban in Far Rockaway, New York. She received an Associate's degreeAssociate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years...
after majoring in Illustration at Fashion Institute of Technology
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
(A.A.S. Illustration)
Career
Crabapple began her art career doing covers for the pornographic newspaper Screw. She has since illustrated for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and PlaygirlPlaygirl
Playgirl is a print quarterly adult magazine published in the United States that is marketed mainly to heterosexual women, but has also gained a considerable gay following...
. She was at one time a regular contributor to Coagula Art Journal
Coagula Art Journal
Coagula Art Journal was founded in 1992 by Mat Gleason as a freely distributed contemporary art magazine. Since its inception, the publication remains free as a PDF download, however readers may still obtain a hard copy via "print on demand"....
.
She has also worked on a number of comics
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
(often with writer John Leavitt), creating the graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...
Scarlett Takes Manhattan, drawing stories for two Marvel
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
anthologies Strange Tales
Strange Tales
Strange Tales is the name of several comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It introduced the features "Doctor Strange" and "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and was a showcase for the science fiction/suspense stories of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, and for the...
vol. 2 and Girl Comics
Girl Comics
Girl Comics is the name of two comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its forerunners, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. The first was a ongoing series that debuted in 1949, and the second a limited series published in 2010....
vol. 2, as well as providing art for the webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
s Backstage at Act-i-vate
Act-i-vate
ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....
and Puppet Makers at Zuda.
Dr Sketchy's
Drawing on past experience as an artist's model, Crabapple founded Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art SchoolDr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is both a burlesque cabaret and life drawing event originating in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Lucky Cat . Dr. Sketchy's was founded in New York City in 2005, by illustrator and former artist's model Molly Crabapple and illustrator A.V. Phibes who later left to...
in Brooklyn in 2005. Dr. Sketchy's is a burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
life-drawing class. It has since been covered on National Public Radio, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
the Onion AV Club, the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, Time Out London and Time Out New York.
Beginning in July 2006, Dr. Sketchy's began opening branches in other cities, which now number 50.
She is also the author (with John Leavitt
John Leavitt
Deacon John Leavitt was a tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America and the oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States...
) of The Official Dr. Sketchy's Rainy Day Colouring Book.
Events
Molly Crabapple has used Kickstarter.com to appeal for the funding of an event called "Molly Crabapple's week in Hell." The event will entail Molly renting a bare room for five days. The room will be covered from floor to ceiling with blank paper. She will spend that work week using fine tip markers to cover every square inch of paper with her illustrations. Backers will be entitled to; view a live-stream of the work in process, make suggestions, 4" X 6" section of the drawing, 8" X 11" section, 11" X 14" section, 18" X 24" section, 24" X 36" section, or 30" X 132" section (floor to ceiling) for various levels of financial support.The funding amount originally requested was $4,500; the actual final amount is $25,805 meaning that she received almost six times the amount originally requested. The project will use live web-cam feeds, a hired photographer and hired videographer and two hundred (200) fine tip permanent markers. The markers will also be awarded to backers as a return on the investment pledge.
Solo
- "Ink! Babes! Irony!-Molly Crabapple Says Goodbye to Pen and Ink" Jigsaw Gallery (February 2005)
- "Peepshow: The Art of Molly Crabapple" Trinity Art Gallery (January 2007)
- "Licentious Behavior" Perihelion Arts (May 2006)
- "Tarts and Flowers- A Valentine's Day Show" Jigsaw Gallery (February 2006)
- "Peepshow: The Art of Molly Crabapple" Trinity Art Gallery (January 2007)
- "Demimonde. Arena Studios" (February 2008)
2003
- Resistance, a Festival of Peace, Theater for the New City (April 2003)
- "Visions of New York" Antique Café/Gallery (July 2003) (solo)
- The Lower East SideLower East SideThe Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....
Festival of the Arts (August 2003) - "Queer Artists Talk Back" The DUMBA Collective (October 2003)
- The DUMBO Festival of the Arts (October 2003)
2004
- Terrible Toy Fair, CBGB 313 Gallery (January 2004)
- The Writer as Visual Artist" Theater for the New City (February 2004)
- "Self Portraits" Theater for the New City (March 2004)
- "The Hip Hop Show" Asterisk Art Project (April 2004)
2005
- "Dirty Detroit Erotic Art Fair" (February 2005)
- "Propaganda" Encrypt Gallery at Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
(April 2005) - "Patterns and More Patterns" Bamboo Lane Gallery (Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
) (April 2005) - "The Smut Show" Green Door Gallery (Kansas CityKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
) (May 2005) - "The Mermaid Show" Coney Island Museum (June 2005)
- "New Erotix - Third Annual Juried Erotic Art Show" Art at Large Gallery. (July 2005)
- "BlueShow" BlueSpace Gallery (Los Angeles). (July 2005)
- "Cannibal Flower" Los Angeles (August 2005)
- "Our Own Show" Museum of American Illustration (September 2005)
- "Cannibal Flower" Los Angeles (September 2005)
- "Halloween Show" MF Gallery (October 2005)
- "Untitled" Bluespace Gallery (October 2005)
- "Exquisite Corpse" Toyroom Gallery ( Sacramento ) (October 2005)
- "Werwolf Bongo Party" DVA Gallery ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
(October 2005) - "Broads on the Bowery" CBGB’s Gallery 313 (October 2005)
- "Grope Show" Zito Studio/Gallery (December 2005)
2006
- "Victorian Rhapsodies" (Three Person Show) Toyroom Gallery (January 2006)
- "Spin" CVB Space (January 2006)
- "Girls! Girls! Girls!" MF Gallery (February 2006)
- "Dirty Detroit Erotic Art Fair" (February 2006)
- "Native Spirit" Supreme Trading (March 2006)
- "Betty Does Veronica" Femina PotensFemina Potens Art GalleryFemina Potens is a non-profit art gallery and performance art space located in San Francisco, California dedicated to the advancement of female artists...
(June 2006) - Going Underground. Art at Large (August 2006)
- "Dirty Detroit Summer Show" (August 2006)
- "Eye Candy". Trinity Art Gallery (October 2006)
- "Paper Doll Show" Trunk Space (October 2006)
- "The Drawing Show" Perihelion Arts (November 2006)
2007
- "Don't Say MF" MF Gallery (February 2007)
- "The Erotic Show" Trinity Art Gallery (February 2007)
- "Seven Brides Electrified" Jail Gallery (April 2007)
- "Ladies Only Show" Crybaby Gallery (April 2007)
- "Carnival" MF Gallery (August 2007)
- "Naked Show" Bluespace Gallery (September 2007)
- "DECK" A Show of Skateboard Art Pravus Gallery (October 2007)
- "Masquerade" Dabora Gallery (October 2007)
- "Fountain Art Fair" (during Art Basel Miami) (December 2007)
- "Home Sweet Home" Crybaby Gallery (December 2007)
2008
- "DEEP POP" Kenneth Chapman Gallery (January 2008)
- "Pop Subversion" Ad Hoc Arts (February 2008)
- "Two Person Show w/ Genevive Zacconi" Ad Hoc Arts (August 2008)
Awards
- Honorable Mention. Going Underground Juried Show. Art at Large. 8/06
- Honorable Mention. New Erotix Juried Erotic Art Show. Art at Large. 7/05