Molly Crabapple Comics creator
Molly Crabapple (born September 13, 1983) is an American artist, writer and entrepreneur. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, Crabapple briefly attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, and worked as a life model and burlesque performer to support her art. She began developing her style as the house artist at the Box, a New York City nightclub. In 2005, she created Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, an alternative drawing salon that meets in bars and clubs around the world, and published a companion book for the school. She co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel Scarlett Takes Manhattan (2009) and worked on two Marvel anthologies as an illustrator. During the Occupy Wall Street protests, Crabapple lived near Zuccotti Park and helped produce art for the Occupy movement. A sample of her Occupy work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. She has successfully crowdfunded one short stop motion animated film, I Have Your Heart (2012), and two art exhibitions, Week in Hell (2012) and Shell Game (2013). Crabapple is currently a columnist for Vice magazine.
