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Molly Crabapple
Crabapple in 2026
Born
Jennifer Caban

1983 (age 42–43)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Known forFine art, illustration, writing
Notable workShell Game (2013), Week in Hell (2012), Drawing Blood (2015), Brothers of the Gun (2018), Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026)
MovementSurrealism, steampunk
Websitemollycrabapple.com

Molly Crabapple (born Jennifer Caban; 1983[1]) is an American visual artist and writer.

She is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including the illustrated memoir Drawing Blood (2015), Discordia (with Laurie Penny) on the Greek economic crisis, the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell (2012), and a history of the Jewish Labor Bund called Here Where We Live Is Our Country (2026), which is a New York Times best seller.

Crabapple's works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Barjeel Art Foundation, and the New-York Historical Society.

Early life

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Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban[2] in 1983[1] in Queens, New York City, New York, to a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, who was the daughter of a Belarusian immigrant.[3] Crabapple began drawing at the age of four with guidance from her mother, an illustrator who worked on toy product packaging.[4][5]

Crabapple's school diagnosed her with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and she was expelled from the seventh grade.[6][7] She never liked her given name, so she started using the name Molly Crabapple after a boyfriend suggested that it reflected her disposition.[8]

After graduating from high school at age 17, Crabapple traveled to Europe. In Paris, she was welcomed by George Whitman, the proprietor of the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company.[9][8] After receiving a notebook as a gift, she began drawing on a serious basis.[8]

Career

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Crabapple went on to work as a life model and a burlesque performer, and modeled for the Society of Illustrators.[8][10] At age 19, she was modeling for SuicideGirls[11] and responding to Craigslist ads for nude photographic modeling.[12] Crabapple earned more money modeling than at a typical day job and continued working on her illustrations.[12][13] She briefly attended the Fashion Institute of Technology,[14] withdrawing before completing her first year.[2][15][16] For four years she worked as the house artist for the Box, a New York City nightclub.[2][17]

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School

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Dr Sketchy's at Avant Garden bar in Houston, Texas, 2010

After working as an artist's model, Crabapple became disenchanted with the structure of a formal sketch class.[18] In 2005, she and illustrator A. V. Phibes founded Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a burlesque life-drawing class.[19][20] At a typical session, artists may drink alcohol while sketching burlesque models and play art games in venues ranging from bars to art museums. After an artist inquired about starting a Dr Sketchy's in Melbourne, Australia, it began to spread around the world.[21] As of 2010, there are approximately 150 licensees using the Dr Sketchy's name.[22]

Comics

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Crabapple (right) at the ACT-I-VATE panel at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

Crabapple has contributed her illustrations to a number of comics, often with writer John Leavitt. They worked on Backstage (2008), a webcomic at Act-i-vate that tells the story of how fire eater Scarlett O'Herring was murdered. Scarlett Takes Manhattan (2009), a graphic novel published by Fugu Press, is a prequel to Backstage.[4][23][24][25] Puppet Makers (2011), a steampunk webcomic that depicts an alternate history of the Industrial Revolution and the court of Versailles, was released for digital download by DC Comics.[26][27][28][29] Crabapple also illustrated two Marvel anthologies, Strange Tales volume 2 and Girl Comics volume 2.[30]

Occupy Wall Street

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In September 2011, Crabapple was living in a studio near Zuccotti Park.[5] Occupy Wall Street protesters had begun to use the park as a camp for their movement, artists began creating posters, and Crabapple contributed work and engaged in the movement.[31][32] "Before Occupy I felt like using my art for activist causes was exploitive of activist causes," she told The Village Voice. "Occupy [...] allowed me to engage my art in politics."[33]

Artists and journalists who had come from all over the world to report on the protests used Crabapple's apartment as an "impromptu salon" for the Occupy movement.[5][17][32] In Discordia (2012), British journalist Laurie Penny recounts how Crabapple "perched at her desk churning out protest posters and handing them to activists to copy and wheat-paste all over the financial district [...] After three days, the word went out that there was an apartment near the protest camp where you could find hot drinks, basic medical attention and a place to charge your gadgets and file copy. The flat became a temporary sanctuary for stray activists and journalists."[34]

Author Matt Taibbi called Crabapple "Occupy's greatest artist,"[35] noting the use of the "vampire squid" theme in her Occupy artwork.[36] Crabapple had read Taibbi's 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine,"[37] in which Taibbi called Goldman Sachs "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity".[38] When Crabapple used Taibbi's metaphor as a stencil depicting a vampire squid and released it for anyone to use, it went viral throughout the Occupy movement.[37]

On September 17, 2012, Crabapple was among a group of protesters arrested during a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. She wrote about her experience in a CNN opinion piece.[39] In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art acquired "Poster for the May Day General Strike, 2012" for its Occuprint Portfolio. The poster is a collaborative work by Crabapple, John Leavitt, and Melissa Dowell. It shows a woman holding a match, playing off the word "strike" as an homage to the London matchgirls' strike of 1888.[40]

Art projects

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In September 2011, Crabapple engaged in a week-long performance art piece, Week in Hell. She locked herself inside a hotel room, covered the walls with paper, and spent the next five days filling the paper with illustrations. The project was funded on Kickstarter, garnering 745 backers and over $20,000. In pitching the work, she wrote: "I'm interested in what happens when an artist leaves their studio, their cliches, and their comfort zone and draws beyond the limits of their endurance."[41] Every day of the endeavor was live-streamed to backers. During the week she was continuously visited by friends and fellow artists. A book documenting the project, Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell, was released in March 2012.

In 2012, Crabapple raised $30,000 on Kickstarter for The Shell Game, a project involving the creation of ten paintings about the Great Recession. She met her goal in two days, ultimately raising $64,799. An exhibition was held at New York City's Smart Clothes Gallery in April 2013. The show sold out.[42] Uzoamaka Maduka of The American Reader wrote that the paintings were reminiscent of political cartoons during the Gilded Age and the Tammany Hall period of American history, which depicted similar subjects, like "greed, corruption, and structural treason [...] around the American ideal, and how that ideal is both undone and constructed by these forces."[43]

Illustrated journalism

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Starting in 2013, Crabapple began to make trips to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to sketch Guantanamo military commission hearings.[44] Her drawings, accompanied by written accounts, were first published in Vice magazine under the title "It Don't Gitmo Better Than This".[45] Further articles and illustrations were released by Vice and The Paris Review.[46]

In 2015, Crabapple collaborated with FUSION on an animation of a series of illustrations and a video which she wrote and narrated. The video portrays how the broken windows policing strategy has been incorporated in New York City and the way it discriminates against ethnic minorities.[47][48]

Scenes from the Syrian War is a collection of illustrated articles serialized in Vanity Fair and made in collaboration with an anonymous source in Syria. Using photos sent via cellphone, Crabapple recreated rare glimpses of daily life in ISIS-occupied Syria. The series consists of "Scenes from Daily Life in the De Facto Capital of ISIS",[49] which focuses on the city of Raqqa; "Scenes from Daily Life Inside ISIS-Controlled Mosul";[50] and "Scenes From Inside Aleppo: How Life Has Been Transformed by Rebel Rule".[51]

The Paris Review also featured Crabapple's sketches of anarchist bikers who provided relief following Hurricane Maria.[52]

Crabapple joined In These Times magazine as an artist-at-large in August 2026.[53]

Books

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External videos
video icon Presentation by Crabapple on Drawing Blood, November 30, 2015, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Crabbapple on Brothers of the Gun, May 25, 2018, C-SPAN

In December 2015, HarperCollins published Crabapple's illustrated autobiography, Drawing Blood. Most of the book covers the period in her early and mid-20s, in which she supported herself by burlesque dancing[16] and nude modeling for amateur photographers[54] in rented hotel rooms and on the softcore porn website SuicideGirls. Her experiences of the September 11 attacks, the economic expansion of the early 2000s, the 2008 financial crisis, Occupy Wall Street, and Hurricane Sandy are also covered in the book, which Deb Olin Unferth, reviewing it for The New York Times, said, "reads like a notebook of New York, a cultural history of a certain set." The book emphasizes how these events were interpreted by Crabapple through her art, which includes original illustrations made specifically for the book. As Unferth observed: "What makes the book captivating and sets it apart from other descriptions of these much-reported events is how it is essentially one long glorious description of what Crabapple drew and why she drew it."[16]

Brian Castner, reviewing the memoir for The Daily Beast, said that "Drawing Blood might be the sexiest thing you read this year," calling the book "a remarkable read, dripping in old-fashioned sex, drugs, and rock and roll [...] a rewarding creation story, the tale of how Jennifer Caban, a shy and shame-filled Puerto Rican-Jewish girl from Queens, became Molly Crabapple: empowered sex-positive feminist, resident-artist of a worldwide movement, and producer of murals that have been compared to Diego Rivera, Bruegel the Elder, and Cirque du Soleil."[54]

In May 2018, Penguin Random House published Brothers of the Gun, co-written (and illustrated) by Crabapple and Marwan Hisham. The book offers an intimate view into the lives of three friends during the beginning of the 2011 Syrian protests through its descent into civil war and violent chaos. One friend is killed by regime forces, another becomes a revolutionary Islamist, and Hisham becomes a journalist in exile in Turkey.[55]

Brothers of the Gun received several positive reviews, including a blurb from Angela Davis, who wrote: "A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time...In great personal detail, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before, after, and during the war—from inside one young man's consciousness."[56]

In September 2019, it was reported that Crabapple was working on a book on the Jewish Labor Bund, to be published by Random House.[57] The book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, was released in April 2026 and debuted in fourth position on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover non-fiction.[58]

Animation

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In 2010, Crabapple collaborated with Canadian singer Max Fractal and filmmaker Jim Batt on the crowdsourced, stop-motion animated film I Have Your Heart. The film is based on Fractal's song "The Organ Donor's March". They raised $17,000 on Kickstarter from over 400 backers in April 2011.[59]

Crabapple continued her collaboration with Fractal and Batt to create a series of five videos on political topics in 2015 for the media website fusion.net. The videos combine live-drawing and animation with voice-over by Crabapple. Each one delves into a controversial or underreported issue and provides facts and commentary on it.[60][non-primary source needed]

In 2015, Crabapple, Boekbinder, and Batt collaborated with the Equal Justice Initiative to create the video "Slavery to Mass Incarceration". Crabapple illustrated the animations, paired with executive director Bryan Stevenson's narration, which depict the history of mass enslavement and modern-day mass incarceration.[61][non-primary source needed]

In 2016, Crabapple animated a video produced and narrated by Jay-Z, "The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail", which presents a critical view of how federal drug laws instituted by the Nixon administration in 1971, as well as those implemented by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, targeted the Black community, resulting in the explosion of the nation's prison population.[62]

In 2017, Crabapple collaborated with Fractal, the ACLU, Laverne Cox, and Zackary Drucker on a video about transgender history and resistance.[63]

Other work

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Crabapple learned Arabic and traveled to Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan.[64] Near the Syrian border, she was briefly detained by police.[2][65] Her impressions of the artistry and culture of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East influenced her style and work.[2][15]

In 2012, Crabapple was one of several artists CNN commissioned to illustrate the theme of power for a digital art gallery pertaining to the 2012 presidential election, as well as the forces that drive debates over controversial issues such as money, health, race, and gender. Crabapple created the illustration "Big Fish Eat Little Fish Eat Big Fish" for the gallery.[66]

Style and influence

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2016 self-portrait

Crabapple uses a crosshatch style of illustration based on Arthur L. Guptill's art technique found in Rendering in Pen and Ink (1976), originally published as Drawing with Pen and Ink (1928).[67] Her style is influenced by Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Russian-American artist Zoetica Ebb, American artist Travis Louie, American photographer Clayton Cubitt, and American illustrator Fred Harper.[68]

German newspaper Der Spiegel called her approach to writing unique, saying she had created a new role, that of the political journalist-artist ("die politische Journalistenkünstlerin"),[69] and in October 2016 Time magazine named her one of its Next Generation Leaders, "sketching from the front lines of conflicts in the U.S. and around the world", writing: "Her work is a perfect slow-media commentary on our current fast-media climate."[70]

Crabapple has also criticized the use of generative artificial intelligence in art and publishing. In 2022, she criticized the use of copyrighted artworks to train generative AI systems, arguing that datasets such as LAION-5B should be rebuilt using voluntarily submitted works.[71] In 2023, she co-authored an open letter calling for restrictions on the use of AI-generated illustrations in publishing and newsrooms, and raised concerns about the use of artists' work to train generative AI systems without their consent or compensation, calling the use of images without the author's consent as "vampiric AI".[72] In 2026, she expanded on these criticisms in an article for The Guardian, discussing the appropriation of artworks for AI training and its effects on illustrators and other creative workers.[73]

Publications

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  • Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book (2006)
  • Scarlett Takes Manhattan (2009)
  • Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 1: Week in Hell (2012)
  • Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 2: Devil in the Details (2012)
  • Drawing Blood (2015)
  • Brothers of the Gun (2018)
  • Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (2026)

References

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  1. 1 2 Hermsmeier, Lukas (November 7, 2014). "Molly Crabapple ist jetzt so etwas wie berühmt". Die Welt (in German). Archived from the original on November 7, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Kino, Carol (October 2, 2009). "A World Drawn From Wild Tastes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  3. ↑ Talya, Zax (April 16, 2016). "Molly Crabapple Explains How You Can Be an Artist and an Activist". The Forward. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  4. 1 2 Rosen, Adam (June 21, 2009). "Making a Show of It". Gelf Magazine. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 Newton, Maud (April 13, 2013). "How Occupy Changed Contemporary Art". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  6. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (2012). "Rebels and Muses (or why I draw what I draw)". Art of Molly Crabapple Volume 2: Devil in the Details. Idea & Design Works. ISBN 978-1-61377-273-7.
  7. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (February 1, 2013). "Shooter Boys and At-Risk Girls". VICE. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Bussel, Rachel Kramer (December 22, 2005). "Molly Crabapple, Artist, Model, Burlesque Performer". Gothamist. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  9. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (December 16, 2011). "RIP George Whitman". Archived from the original on December 23, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  10. ↑ Wright, Jennifer (2010). "A Graphic Artist". Cityist. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Reynolds, Brandon (February 28, 2007). "Moulin Rouge in the Face". Style Weekly. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  12. 1 2 Crabapple, Molly (October 23, 2012). "The World of a Professional Naked Girl". VICE. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  13. ↑ Honigman, Ana Finel (May 18, 2009). "Apple of Your Eye". Interview Magazine. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  14. ↑ "Profile: Jennifer Caban and John Leavitt, Illustration Alums". Fashion Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on July 19, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Mokoena, Tshepo (March 20, 2011). "Molly Crabapple". Don't Panic UK. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020.
  16. 1 2 3 Unferth, Deb Olin (December 4, 2015). "Molly Crabapple's 'Drawing Blood'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  17. 1 2 Filipovic, Jill (August 15, 2013), "Q&A: Occupy's 'Greatest Artist' Writes Her Memoirs", New York Magazine, retrieved June 11, 2014
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  20. ↑ "Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School: Where Life Drawing Meets Cabaret". Time Out. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  21. ↑ Chalupa, Andrea (May 21, 2010). "Molly Crabapple's DIY Empire: A How To". HuffPost. Archived from the original on June 17, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  22. ↑ Croughton, Paul (July 18, 2010). "This will get them interested in art". The Sunday Times. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  23. ↑ "Backstage". act-i-vate. Archived from the original on November 13, 2017.
  24. ↑ Bissette, Elizabeth (January 4, 2010). "Molly Crabapple". Fine Art Magazine. pp. 60–61. Retrieved September 8, 2026 – via Issuu.
  25. ↑ O'Shea, Tim (August 24, 2009). "Talking Comics with Tim: Molly Crabapple". CBR. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  26. ↑ Newitz, Annalee (May 10, 2010). "In 'Puppet Makers,' The Aristocrats of Versailles Are Cyborg Courtesans". Gizmodo. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  27. ↑ VanderMeer, Jeff (2011). The steampunk bible: an illustrated guide to the world of imaginary airships, corsets and goggles, mad scientists, and strange literature. New York: Abrams Image. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-0-8109-8958-0.
  28. ↑ Chamberlain, Henry (May 13, 2010). "Interview: Molly Crabapple - Illustrator Extraordinaire - Talks PUPPET MAKERS". Geekweek. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014.
  29. ↑ Hofacker, Brian. "DF INTERVIEW: MOLLY CRABAPPLE". DYNAMIC FORCES. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015.
  30. ↑ Collins, Sean T. (August 13, 2009). "The burlesque queen and comics illustrator takes She-Hulk back in time and reveals her red-hot Gambit fantasies". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on August 16, 2009.
  31. ↑ Honigman, Ana Finel (July 2012). "Molly Crabapple Rackroom". ArtSlant. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  32. 1 2 Mason, Paul (April 27, 2012). "Does Occupy signal the death of contemporary art?". BBC News. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  33. ↑ Zuckerman, Esther (March 11, 2012). "Molly Crabapple On 'Shell Game,' Her Surreal Take On the Financial Crisis". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  34. ↑ Penny, Laurie; Crabapple, Molly (2012). Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-5684-9.
  35. ↑ Kassel, Matthew (October 16, 2013). "At Home With Molly Crabapple". Observer. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  36. ↑ Taibbi, Matt (April 12, 2013). "Molly Crabapple, Occupy's Greatest Artist, Opens Show This Weekend". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  37. 1 2 Gerrard, David Burr (April 3, 2014). "A Conversation With Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple". The Awl. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  38. ↑ Roose, Kevin (December 13, 2011). "The Long Life of the Vampire Squid". DealBook. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  39. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (September 22, 2012). "My arrest at Occupy Wall Street | CNN". CNN. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  40. ↑ Holpuch, Amanda (October 10, 2013). "New York's Moma acquires Occupy Wall Street art prints". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  41. ↑ "Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell". Kickstarter. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  42. ↑ Galperina, Marina (March 9, 2012). "Molly Crabapple's Kickstarter Made $48,000+ in Three Days". Animal. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  43. ↑ Uzoamaka, Maduka (April 2013). "In Conversation: Interview with Artist Molly Crabapple". The American Reader. Archived from the original on April 24, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  44. ↑ Catherine Thompson (August 15, 2013). "Guantanamo Bay Through The Eyes Of Artist Molly Crabapple". TPM. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  45. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (September 10, 2013). "Inside a Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour". VICE. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  46. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (June 21, 2013). "Drawing Gitmo". The Paris Review. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  47. ↑ King, Jamilah (February 4, 2015). "Video: How 'Broken Windows' Policing Harms People of Color". Colorlines. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  48. ↑ "Molly Crabapple: How 'broken windows' policing harms people of color". FUSION. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  49. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (October 6, 2014). "Scenes from Daily Life in the de Facto Capital of ISIS". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  50. ↑ Hisham, Marwan (February 6, 2015). "Scenes from Daily Life Inside ISIS-Controlled Mosul". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  51. ↑ Hisham, Marwan (July 20, 2015). "Scenes from Inside Aleppo: How Life Has Been Transformed by Rebel Rule". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  52. ↑ Crabapple, Molly (January 10, 2018). "Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Radical Arts Collective by Molly Crabapple". The Paris Review. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  53. ↑ Bloomekatz, Ari (August 6, 2026). "Molly Crabapple's Next Major Project Is With In These Times". In These Times. Retrieved August 7, 2026.
  54. 1 2 Castner, Brian (December 5, 2015). "The Sexiest Memoir of the Year". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 5, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  55. ↑ Helicher, Karl (April 15, 2018). "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War". Library Journal. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
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  57. ↑ Gold, Lyta (September 13, 2013). "Utopian enclaves and the history of the Jewish Labor Bund with Molly Crabapple". The Real News Network. Retrieved November 5, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  58. ↑ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers". The New York Times. April 26, 2026. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
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  61. ↑ Equal Justice Initiative (July 7, 2015). Slavery to Mass Incarceration. Retrieved September 8, 2026 – via YouTube.
  62. ↑ Guardian Music (September 16, 2016). "Jay Z calls 'war on drugs' an 'epic fail' in New York Times video". The Guardian. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  63. ↑ Cox, Laverne (August 10, 2017). "Laverne Cox Will Show You the Long, Intense Fight for Transgender Rights". Time.
  64. ↑ Dean, Michelle (December 1, 2015). "Molly Crabapple: 'We're just trying to use our art to consume the world'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  65. ↑ Lamb, Brian (July 2, 2015). "Molly Crabapple". C-SPAN. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  66. ↑ Schier, Steve Goldberg,Aimee (August 23, 2012). "'Power': A digital election art gallery | CNN". CNN. Retrieved September 8, 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  67. ↑ Kiniry, Laura (June–July 2009). "Art & Artifice". Inked. p. 36.
  68. ↑ D'Isa, Francesco (November 25, 2009). "Erotic Burlesque Art: An Interview with Molly Crabapple". Scene 360. Archived from the original on November 30, 2009.
  69. ↑ Rohr, Mathieu von (April 6, 2014). "(S+) Politik? Yeah!". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
  70. ↑ Alter, Charlotte (October 6, 2016). "The Journalist Drawing the World". Time. Retrieved September 7, 2026.
  71. ↑ Miltner, Kate (December 31, 2024). "'A.I. is holding a mirror to our society': Lensa and the discourse of visual generative AI". Journal of Digital Social Research. 6 (4): 13–33. doi:10.33621/jdsr.v6i440456. Retrieved September 19, 2026.
  72. ↑ "Molly Crabapple Has Posted an Open Letter by 1,000 Cultural Luminaries Urging Publishers to Restrict the Use of 'Vampirical' A.I.-Generated Images". Artnet News. May 3, 2023. Retrieved September 19, 2026.
  73. ↑ "Oh The Inhumanity: On A.I. Art. E14". Bad Art Podcast. June 8, 2026. Retrieved September 19, 2026.

Further reading

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  • Salavetz, Judith; Drate, Spencer (2010), Creating Comics! 47 Master Artists Reveal the Techniques and Inspiration Behind Their Comic Genius, Rockport Publishers, pp. 40–41, ISBN 978-1-61060-167-2
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