Molly Crabapple Illustration

Hi Comrades, Next week I’m doing an insane, gigantic art installation at the Standard, New York. For five days I’m creating five giant paintings on the themes of labor, war, truth, money and revolution- but with squid and animals in funny hats. It’s for the PEN World Voices Festival for International Literature, chaired this year [...]

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This coming weekend I’m going to be a guest at Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be speaking about my work on Sunday at 5pm, doing some signings, and creating a giant drawing installation during the con. I’ve never been to Portland before. What shouldn’t I miss?

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This is my third year at SXSW. The ipad-infested dorkfest of barbecue and joy takes over Austin every March, and this year, I’m happy to be super involved. Here’s where to find me: * Social Media Is Science Fiction Sunday 13th March 9:30am to 10:30am Place TX Ballroom 1, 2nd floor (floor plan), Hyatt Regency [...]

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Greg “Craola” Simkins is curating a group show at Gallery 1988, where over 100 artists interpreted the anti-hero of Watership Down.  I really enjoyed making my piece “Night and Day.”

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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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