Act-i-vate gave me my start in comics.  The tight knit web-comics collective, founded by Dean Haspiel  (who just won an Emmy, btw!  Go Dean!) and Dan Goldman let me and Leavitt do our first long comics story, Backstage.  Looking at it now, all I can see are the louse-ups of my early attempt, by Backstage was the seed that gave birth to Scarlett Takes Manhattan, and later, Puppet Makers.

Dean was kind enough to ask me to contribute to the Act-i-vate Primer, a handsome, hardbound, glossy covered anthology that was recently nominated for a Harvey Award.  I have a mere two signed copies available in the store.  Fortunately, my style improved by the time I got to contribute.

Buy a signed Act-i-vate Primer!

Photo by Najva Sol

My friends at Haute Macabre are giving away a prize pack of Dirtee Hollywood shirts.  Get thee over there and leave a comment to win.

Thanks to twitter follower @@jcharette, I now know that MollyCrabapple.com is blocked on Amtrack.

This isnt’ a new experience.  MollyCrabapple.com has long been the target of haters of cartoon nipples.  You can’t see it when you wait for jury duty in New York or work at Pepsi or surf the internet on a SUNY campus.  At one point, my own agent wasn’t able to check out my site.

I hold the opinion that web filters are for weasels and cowards.

Thus, I’m devising a contest. The NSFW Contest!

Have you been banned from looking at my site?  Get a screenshot, and post it in the comments or email it to molly@mollycrabapple.com.  On July 10th, I’ll choose a random entrant and mail them a signed copy of Scarlett Takes Manhattan, a very NSFW book.

Get posting. And, if you need to look at my site at work, behold the magic of Proxy Web Browsers

More Blocked gifs after the jump

From a US government network

Websense also blocks me

Another WebSense block- this time from an Iowa hospital

McAfee blocks it as under the catagory “Art/Culture/Heritage/Porn”

Barracuda has no love

For the last several months, me and talented Aussie animator Jim Batt have been collaberating with Kim Boekbinder on an animated music video for her song “The Organ Doner’s March.”

Here’s an uber-rough animation test that Jim Batt made.  Behold the sullen Cora!

You can hear some of Kim’s recently completed album here. Voice of an angel, peoples.

It sincerely thrills me that I have illustrations in their latest issue. I got to draw the founders of the neo-burlesque movement for an article on Jo Weldon.

Besides my art, Coilhouse #5 has Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Zoe Keating, Chet Zar, Wil Wheaten, paper dolls, fold out posters, and a shiny disco-tastic gold foil cover.  You should buy it. They’re making history

Photo by Lauren Goldberg. Model: Cookie

I have two new pieces up on Chinashop…

*Melting Flesh: The Art of Ellen Stagg (NSFW, glorious)

*Inside a Burlesque Queen’s Closet

Please post this gif everywhere. Animation by Jim Batt, for the music video I’m doing with Kim Boekbinder

Puppet Makers, my and John Leavitt’s Rococo murder mystery, launched on Zuda Comics today.  We’ll be updating with new pages every Wednesday. In the meantime, comment, link and share this baby…

John has interviews up on…

Tor.com
and the DC Comics Blog

Getty shot me at for the Gen-Art sponsored premier of MTV’s “Hired,”

Hair gigantism by Amber Ray Accouterments. Shoulder bling courtesy of Barbie at Chinashop and a thrift store in Austin. Dress: American Apparel.

Aussie art mag Kingbrown did a 6 page feature of me, including photos of my favorite studio items.  You can buy an issue here- they have these lust-worthy screenprinted brown wrappers that are worth the price alone.