In awe of Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple (born Jennifer Caban on September 13, 1983) is an American artist (her sketchbooks are awesome), activist, writer and entrepreneur. She is also a columnist for Vice magazine. 

Her memoir, Drawing Blood, published by Harper Collins in December 2015. Called "An emblem of the way art can break out of the gilded gallery" by the New Republic, she has drawn in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Dhabi's migrant labor camps, and with rebels in Syria. Crabapple 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.

For  Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School! she wrote Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book,  which is one part DIY handbook, one part activity book on acid, and one part history of the Sketch Revolution. 

Here is one of her sketchbook drawings - Absinthe.

Read more about her and her spicy work in her website: http://mollycrabapple.com/

Also listen to an NPR podcast of Molly's latest biographical opus "Drawing Blood" at: http://www.npr.org/books/authors/297856892/molly-crabapple, and lots more from the Litup Show: http://thelitupshow.com/episode-33-molly-crabapple-on-the-paris-attacks-refugees-her-art-and-witness-journalism/