I’m signing Devil in the Details at Bluestockings next Monday.  This will be my only signing for it. Please do come.  Sarah Jaffe will be talking with me and making me sound clever

Monday, July 30th at 7:00 pm
@ Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street, New York, NY
http://bluestockings.com/

Devil in the Details will be hitting comics shops this Wednsday.

You can still get a 50% pre-order discount on Amazon right now, so go buy several copies to cut up and use as the raw materials for particularly festive paper airplanes

My beloved high fashion goth kids over at Haute Macabre are running a contest for Devil in the Details and all my other books too.  Go comment there to win stuff

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I have become convinced that Molly Crabapple was sent by the devil to seduce us all into art.” – Neil Gaiman

Fine artist, illustrator, and comics creator Molly Crabapple captures the absurdity of modern life in intricate, theatrical detail in her fine art work, drawing inspiration from politics, polite (and not-so-polite) society, and hundreds of years of literature. Her work is burlesque-inspired in the broadest definition of the word – deftly satirizing the powerful with adorably sinister animals, steampunk-tinged machinery, and of course, beautiful girls.

But it’s not all fantastical – when Occupy Wall Street broke out, Molly was there, capturing the immediacy of the revolutionary feeling in pen and ink. In a new 48-page book from IDW, you can get Molly’s art in gorgeous full-color, work that’s decorated glamorous nightclubs, museums and galleries, and protest signs and occupied spaces around the country. Comedian Margaret Cho contributes the forward.

Molly will be speak about Devil in the Details in conversation with Alternet labor editor Sarah Jaffe on…

Monday, July 30th at 7:00 pm
@ Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street, New York, NY
http://bluestockings.com/