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Molly Crabapple (born September 13, 1983) is an American artist, activist, writer and entrepreneur. She is also a columnist for Vice magazine.
Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, on September 13, 1983. Her mother is Jewish and worked as an artist. Her father is Puerto Rican and an academic. Crabapple began drawing at the age of four with guidance from her mother, an illustrator who worked on toy product packaging. At age 12, Crabapple remembers herself as a "snotty goth moppet in a pair of Doc Martens, who blared Hole on her Walkman, drew headless cheerleaders, and read the Marquis de Sade in class". Her school diagnosed her with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and she was expelled from the seventh grade.
In high school, Crabapple described herself as "gothy, dorky, and hated". After graduating at the age of 17, she traveled to Europe. In Paris, she was welcomed by George Whitman (1913–2011) the proprietor of the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company. After receiving a notebook as a gift she began drawing on a serious basis. She never liked her given name so she started using the name Molly Crabapple after a boyfriend suggested it reflected her character. She learned Arabic and traveled to Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan. Near the Syrian border, she was detained by police for a short period after she was found drawing in her notebook inside a mosque. Her impressions of the artistry and culture of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East would come to influence her style and work.
Molly Crabapple is an American artist, known for her work for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Royal Society of Arts, Red Bull, Marvel Comics, DC Comics and CNN.
Molly Crabapple is an American artist and journalist, known for her work for The New York Times, VICE, the Wall Street Journal, the Royal Society of Arts, Red Bull, Marvel Comics, DC Comics and CNN. Her new book "Drawing Blood" is available now on Amazon -- http://amzn.to/1QqNp5m
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Subscribe to VICE here! http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow V...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also called ICE, has to keep 34,000 immigrants behind bars each day in order to keep its funding. But, out of the 350 facilities it uses to incarcerate these immigrants, only 8 are owned and operated by ICE itself. For the rest, ICE pays between $122-$200 person, per night, to for-profit corporations and local jails. Politicians love to bray that 'illegal aliens' are bleeding America. But the real leeches are the private prison companies who rake in billions in taxpayer money to ruin immigrants' lives - including those with the legal papers to live and work in the US.
From sex workers in the US to prisoners in Guantanamo, artist and journalist Molly Crabapple has been there. Her bold and powerful work has also taken her to Abu Dhabi's migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syria. Her new memoir, Drawing Blood, was just released in December. She is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for publications including The New York Times, Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. This episode also features a commentary from Laura on the dark magic of the art market.
More at http://www.statedmag.com Stated Magazine (www.statedmag.com) visits illustrator Molly Crabapple in her home studio for a conversation about her work and life.
Read more about Molly Crabapple: http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-molly-crabapple.html In this exclusive interview at The Lavin Agency's New York office, Molly Crabapple gives her advice on how to succeed in the arts. As traditional institutions erode, Crabapple argues that today, more than ever, artists need to possess an entrepreneurial spirit in order to succeed.
Heenali Patel sat down with illustrator Molly Crabapple to discuss her 'Scenes from the Syrian War', a collection of illustrations, made in collaboration with Syrian writer Marwan Hisham. Using photos sent via cell phone, Molly recreated rare glimpses of daily life in ISIS-occupied Syria.
#JLF2016: Molly Crabapple on migrants, gaza, Iraq & Syria at jaipur Literature Festival From illustrating DC and Marvel Comics, to creating a burlesque life-drawing class, and being a Vice contributing editor – Molly Crabapple never seems to rest. She is a pioneer of art reportage, merging her art with her sterling writing ability to tell the stories of those suffering in the world’s conflict zones. Originally, From New York, USA, her work has taken her around the world – she has reported from Gaza, Iraq, Syria and Guantanamo Bay, for mediahouses from CNN to Vanity Fair. With the launch of her recently published book Drawing Blood, she’s now a full-fledged author, which is what brought her to JLF where we caught up with her.
On August 9th, Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot a black teenager named Mike Brown. Since then, the city has been protesting. The police did not react well. Artwork done by Molly Crabapple Visit us at: http://www.fusion.net Like us at: http://www.facebook.com/FusionNetwork Follow us at: http://twitter.com/thisisfusion View us: http://instagram.com/ThisIsFusion Read more: http://thisisfusion.tumblr.com/