The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

We’re into our home stretch with out guest bloggers and their Best of the Year selections and I hope you’ve been enjoying the diverse works they’ve been highlighting for us. Today please welcome comics creator, illustrator and guiding light (or perhaps guiding spinning disco glitter ball) of Dr Sketchy’s, Molly Crabapple:

FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?

Molly: Bayou, Fishtown, and A.D. -- New Orleans After the Deluge were all eye-poppingly brilliant. Beautifully drawn, tragic, and wonderful.  Bayou especially was a magical realist coming of age story of the likes of which I’ve never seen.

FPI: Can you pick three books which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?

Molly: Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, Ho’s Hookers Call Girls and Rent Boys, edited by David Henry Sterry- incredibly smart, funny, unsentimental writing about the sex industry - Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman Co-Creator Joe Schuster.

FPI: Can you pick three TV shows and/or movies which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?

Molly: Untitled: The Movie and Inglorious Basterds.

FPI: How did 2009 go for you as a creator? Are you happy with the way you got your work out this year?

Molly: It was an amazing year for me.  I did my first graphic novel, spoke/produced events in Paris, Berlin and Sao Paulo, and even had the crazy honor of doing the poster for this year’s MoCCA Art Fair.

FPI:  What can we look forward to from you in 2010?

Molly: Secrets.  Possibly a murder

FPI: Anyone you think is a name we should be watching out for next year?

Molly: Kevin Colden!

FPI:  And one final, special question – since its not only the end of the  year approaching but also the end of the decade, is there any comics work you’d especially pick out as one of the best you’ve read this decade?

Molly: I’m a Neil Gaiman fangirl forever. So, everything he wrote, ever.