Molly Crabapple

Website: Molly Crabapple Web Site

About the author

Molly learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore, and now credits her artistic success to a combination of harsh criticism from the proprietor and hours copying "A Tart's Progress." Later, she sketched her way through Morocco and Kurdistan --and once into a Turkish jail.

Back in New York, she got her first illustration job doing covers for Screw Magazine. Since then, she's created cheeky Victoriana for places like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Playgirl.

For fun, Molly dances burlesque and eats fire around in various disreputable dowtown places. She also cohosts Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School, a biweekly burlesque life-drawing session. Visit her website at www.mollycrabapple.com.