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Entries from June 24th, 2011

Powerhouse Stomp

June 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Poster for Dances of Vice’s Powerhouse Stomp

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Thank You For Funding Week in Hell

June 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell closed with over $25,000 (almost 6 times what I initially asked for.) Thank you so much, comrades! We’ve booked our secret location from September 3-8. Here’s some press in La Stampa and Mashable

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Defacing Moleskines at Bloomingdales

June 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Photos

Moleskine hired me to draw Giovanni James’s dapper likeness on their covers for a product launch at Bloomingdales. A bunch of my reprobate friends showed up and drew

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Live Art at Sonic Union

June 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Photos

I recently creating a giant drawing live for a party at creative agency Sonic Union. Steve Prue of Team Rockstar took these pictures. I love drawing live.

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Sixty Six: Laurie Penny

June 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Art

This morning, I was thinking about how lucky I was to know the most extraordinary people: writers and artists and porn stars and firebrand journalists and rockstars. And I thought that maybe I should draw them. So I’m going to try, when not murdering myself on other things, I’m going to try to draw sixty [...]

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Sketch of Aaron Peters

June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Art

Jet Pens sent me a pack of new ink toys- nibs, brush pens, little niggly things that I can cross-hatch to death with. Tested out a few on this sketch of Aaron Peters of UK Uncut (a movement of young Brits protesting against health and education cuts that continuously both inspires me and makes me [...]

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American Gods/Big Gay Ice Cream Poster

June 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Art

Poster for Big Gay Ice Cream, the official ice cream of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods book tour. Fuck yeah Wednesday, and your missing eye too.  

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Wired

June 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Press

Comrades, Wired just wrote a really sweet piece about Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell: “Crabapple describes Kickstarter as a modern day alternative to a broken, elitist, jargon-heavy unapproachable grant system that it doesn’t take advantage of the internet. This is her third project funded by the site, and while it may be ambitious, it’s not unusual. [...]

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Moleskine Drawing Jam at Bloomingdales

June 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Events

Moleskine Drawing Jam at Bloomingdale’s 59th street featuring: Molly Crabapple, This Saturday, I’m going to be at Bloomingdales customizing covers for Moleskine.  Each one will be a different gold drawing of octopii, libraries, and our model, the fantastically dapper Giovanni James. You’re very much invited to draw him along with me – Moleskine Drawing Jam [...]

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Eff Poster

June 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Art

Click to blow up Poster I designed for the Electronic Freedom Frontier to help explain the Tor Project (ie what single handedly kept the internet running during the Egyptian revolution.) If you set up 5 or more Tor rallys, the EFF will send you a copy. Words by the ever witty John Leavitt Cory Doctorow [...]

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