Molly Crabapple Illustration

This Halloween, I had the honor of creating a 6 foot tall painting, in costume, for an infamous, glorious West Village private party. You can check out some photo recaps of this party in Woman’s Wear Daily. This was my first time working this large, and I felt like I was falling into the painting [...]

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Dress by Stop Staring.  Standing on my backdrop.

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Last Saturday, somewhere in between signing, talking at the Society of Illustrators, and drawing conjoined elephants at Amanda Palmer’s Party on the Internet, I got to take part in the art jam at the launch of MTV Geek. I got to make the ink pretty along with artstars like Paul Pope, Jim Mahfood and Camille [...]

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My speech at Ignite NYC during Web 2.0 Week. Ignite is a uniquely exhilarating/nerve wracking format for speakers. You have 5 minutes to make your point, with slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds. Soooo much practice! ImageThink made this great graphic map of my talk.

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On Saturday, I took part in one of the most beautiful parties I ever attended- the sort of party that makes you happy to be young, alive, in New York and part of this blessed art family.  Cynthia von Buhler took over a giant penthouse next to the Empire State Building for her birthday.  And [...]

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Several weeks ago, Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching came out with a line of Molly Crabapple embroidery patterns. I was so excited to see what people would make out of my artwork.  These gorgeous embroideries from Needle in Your Eye did not disappoint!  Thanks so much Keni for making such lovely stuff!

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of arabic tattoos absinthe and Australians photos by Kate Black. Thanks so much for Kim Boekbinder for being a louche, beautiful ukulele player for the night and forever

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…was a blur of champagne, hookah, Chinese egg custards and dear friends. ….who then hijacked my twitter. Photos by Kate Black. Complete set here.

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Today I turn 27 years old (as does birthday twin Gala Darling- proud to call you a friend!).  Looking forward to spending the day with champagne, dear friends, brightly coloured sweet things, and mayhem.

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This weekend, me, rockstar assistant Melissa Dowell, her boyfriend Tim and pinup hottie Katelan Foisy hopped a train to Maryland, where I was a guest at the first ever Intervention Con. Then next 1.5 days were a blur of blue body paint, Sketchy’s in hotel ballrooms, champagne, white-haired stalkers, trips to Hooters (by far the [...]

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