Molly Crabapple Illustration

This Saturday evening, I’m creating a giant drawing at The Ace Hotel for The Dances of Vice’s Powerhouse Stomp, their tribute to classic cartoons EVENT: POWERHOUSE STOMP: A Tribute to Classic Cartoons of the 1920-40s TIME & DATE: February 19, 2011 | 10PM-4AM LOCATION: Liberty Hall at The Ace Hotel | 16 W29th St. NYC [...]

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I am so friggin excited to be going to Angouleme next week with Fred! Angouleme Comics Festival is the biggest comics festival in Europe, and in Europe, comics are high art. Thanks so much to Xavier Lancel of SCARCE Magazine and Abby Denson for hooking it up — Meet Me at Angouleme! Molly Crabapple, artist [...]

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I’m exhibiting a reverse mermaid painting with my friends at Last Rites Gallery. Dark Pop 3.0 January 15th, 7-11 pm. On display January 15th- February 12th, 2011. Last Rites Gallery for the third year in a row has decided to find out what several of today’s brightest art stars are capable of when asked to [...]

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When I was in London, Melissa and I spent most nights drinking elitist cocktails with Malcolm Doherty at the Groucho Club. Malcolm is a musician, witty and stylish and sick and ferociously funny, and he’s coming to perform in New York this Tuesday. You should come for his band, The Cellar Door Sound. But you [...]

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Heeb Storytelling: Live Comics Edition a night of irreverent entertainment—graphic novel-style—curated by Heeb’s comics editor Jeff Newelt. get tix: http://bit.ly/HeebJoesComix Eight extraordinary comics creators project their smart, funny and sexy comics on a big screen. Featuring legendary MAD artist Al Jaffee + Paul Pope, Molly Crabapple, Dean Haspiel, Sarah Glidden, Josh Neufeld, Cynthia Von Buhler, Jeff Newelt, [...]

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Five years ago, I started Dr. Sketchy’s.  I had just dropped out of art school, and my entire event production experience consisted of a benefit for Planned Parenthood and a few years of arhythmic stripping on New York’s burlesque stages.  I worked posing for art classes, and I had a lippy certainty  that I could [...]

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Master painter and friend Travis Louie did me the extreme honor of doing a drawing with me (photos to come) for his show “The Ghost of Delilah and Other Stories” at Gallery 1988.  He also collaberated with Chet Zar, Zoetica Ebb, Ewalina Ferruso, Fred Harper, and Greg “Craola” Simkins.  You may recognize the show image- [...]

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BURNINGdAN Spinning fire at Molly Crabapple’s Dr. Sketchys Flashmob @Art Basel Miami 2k9 from Ronen on Vimeo. 2009, Dr. Sketchy’s did a flashmob at Art Basel. We had Nik Sin and Dante Posh and glittering girls from South Florida’s burlesque scene. We also had Burning Dan spinning fire. Dan died last month. He was a [...]

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I am so excited to be doing a giant tribute to my hero Warhol’s factory. Ever since we did the Andy Warhol Dr. Sketchy’s at the Brooklyn Museum, I’ve been dying to revisit the theme. On November 13, we’re doing it on a gigantic scale! 11/13- Dr. Sketchy’s does The Factory BUY YOUR TICKETS This [...]

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My friend Ian Gerard is the brains behind GenArt, one of New York’s most legendary culture orgs. For over a decade, GenArt held art fairs, launched Zac Posen, threw film festivals, and was even kind enough to sponsor my tshirt launch at Fred Segal. During the financial collapse, several major backers pulled out, and GenArt [...]

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