32 Facts About Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple was born on Jennifer Caban; 1983 and is an American artist and writer.

Molly Crabapple is a contributing editor for VICE and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood, Discordia on the Greek economic crisis, and the art books Devil in the Details and Week in Hell.

Molly 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.

Molly Crabapple was born Jennifer Caban in 1983 in Queens, New York City, New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, who was the daughter of a Belarusian immigrant.

Molly Crabapple has described herself in high school as "gothy, dorky, and hated".

Molly Crabapple never liked her given name, so she started using the name Molly Crabapple after a boyfriend suggested it reflected her character.

Molly Crabapple went on to work as a life model and a burlesque performer, and modeled for the Society of Illustrators.

Molly Crabapple earned more money modeling than at a typical day job and continued working on her illustrations.

Molly Crabapple briefly attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, withdrawing before completing her first year.

Molly Crabapple has called her time at the Box her "artistic coming-of-age".

Molly Crabapple has contributed her illustrations to a number of comics, often with writer John Leavitt.

In September 2011, Molly Crabapple was living in a studio near Zuccotti Park.

Occupy Wall Street protesters had begun to use the park as a camp for their movement, artists began creating posters, and Molly Crabapple contributed work and engaged in the movement.

Molly Crabapple perched at her desk churning out protest posters and handing them to activists to copy and wheat-paste all over the financial district.

On September 17,2012, Molly Crabapple was among a group of protesters arrested during a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Molly Crabapple wrote about her experience in a CNN opinion piece.

In September 2011, Molly Crabapple engaged in a week-long performance art piece, "Week in Hell".

Molly Crabapple locked herself inside a hotel room, covered the walls with paper, and spent the next five days filling the paper with illustrations.

In 2012, Molly Crabapple raised $30,000 on Kickstarter for The Shell Game, a project involving the creation of ten paintings about the Great Recession.

Molly Crabapple met her goal in two days, ultimately raising $64,799.

Molly Crabapple's drawings, accompanied by written accounts, were first published in Vice magazine under the title "It Don't Gitmo Better Than This".

In 2015, Molly Crabapple collaborated with FUSION on an animation of a series of illustrations by Molly Crabapple.

In December 2015, HarperCollins published Molly Crabapple's illustrated autobiography, Drawing Blood.

In September 2019, it was reported that Molly Crabapple was working on a book on the Jewish Labor Bund, to be published by Random House.

In 2010, Molly Crabapple collaborated with Canadian singer Kim Boekbinder and filmmaker Jim Batt on the crowdsourced, stop-motion animated film I Have Your Heart.

Molly Crabapple continued her collaboration with Boekbinder and Batt to create a series of five videos on political topics in 2015 for the media website fusion.

In 2016, Molly 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.

In 2017, Molly Crabapple collaborated with Boekbinder, the ACLU, Laverne Cox, and Zackary Drucker on a video about transgender history and resistance.

Molly Crabapple learned Arabic and traveled to Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan.

In 2012, Molly 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.

Molly Crabapple created the illustration "Big Fish Eat Little Fish Eat Big Fish" for the gallery.

Molly Crabapple's 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.