Molly Crabapple

Artist Bio

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School

Molly learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. She later drew her way through Morocco and Kurdistan, and once into a Turkish jail. She’s developed her trademark Victorian style based a fascination with ambition and artifice. Remember, the devil’s in the details.

Molly’s drawn for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics the Bloomberg Corporation and Playgirl, and illustrated eight books. She’s also turned her talents to 30-foot theatrical backdrops, children’s books, parade installations, burlesque posters, critically acclaimed webcomics, pornographic comic books, art writing, and gallery shows around the world. She’s the resident Toulouse Lautrec of The Box, one of New York’s most exclusive nightclubs.

In her free time, Molly created Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, the world’s largest chain of alternative life drawing classes, with over 60 branches in every continent except Antarctica . Dr. Sketchy’s has spawned a book, calendar, jewelry line, US and European tours, an internet radio show, series of comedic YouTube shorts, and show at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can find out more about it at Dr. Sketchy.

Molly and her projects have been covered in: The New York Times, The LA Times, The New York Post, Time Out London, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, La Repubblica, BUST, HEEB, Venus, HOW Design, Bizarre Magazine, Juxtapoz.com, Suicidegirls, Playboy.com, BoingBoing, The Scotsman, The National Post, The Houston Chronicle, SF Chronicle, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, BBC Radio, AP Wire, NPR, The Channel 11 Morning News, Publishers Weekly, Fleshbot, and hundreds of other media outlets around the world.

Molly’s spoken at spoken at the Graphic Arts Guild in Boston, the School of Visual Arts, and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, and has written testimony for the Small Business Administration.

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