Powerhouse Stomp
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Thank You For Funding Week in Hell
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
Defacing Moleskines at Bloomingdales
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
Live Art at Sonic Union
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.
Sixty Six: Laurie Penny
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 … Continue reading
Sketch of Aaron Peters
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 … Continue reading
American Gods/Big Gay Ice Cream Poster
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.
Wired
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 … Continue reading
Moleskine Drawing Jam at Bloomingdales
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 … Continue reading
Eff Poster
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 … Continue reading
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I'm Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York. My art show, Shell Game, was covered by press including New Republic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Wired, and The American Reader. My work can be found in the permanent collections of the New York Historical Society, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Groucho Club. I've published several books, including Discordia (with Laurie Penny), and the forthcoming Straw House. I write a monthly column for VICE, and my essays have appeared at CNN, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Jacobin.
