Kickstarter posted up this short but fascinating video with the amazing Molly Crabapple, talking about her Week of Hell, staying inside a hotel room for five days, covering every surface with paper then continually drawing over all of it . I love Molly’s art anytime, but to see her creating this wraparound, room-sized, intensely detailed work is quite remarkable. The art (all 270 feet of it!) was pre-sold via a Kickstarter campaign earlier in the summer and will be the subject of a book next year; you can read more and check out some photos of the event on Molly’s site here.
And since we’re on the subject of Molly, I know I posted one of her sketches from the Occupy Wall Street campaign last week, but I can’t resist posting another – she has a whole bunch of them on her blog, as one of the main congregations of protestors in Liberty Park has been quite close to where she lives and she’s been documenting it with a series of sketches and pointing out that despite some politically motivated media attempts to paint the protestors as a buch of grumbling hippy types it is actually a very diverse group – senior citizens, young folks, construction workers, former armed forces veterans, mothers, fathers, all sorts. I’ve been enjoying seeing some of Molly’s art reacting to this grass-roots movement. You can see more on her blog and also on her Tumblr.
(journalist Laurie Pennycovering the Occupy Wall Stree movement, art by and (c) Molly Crabapple)
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
Comics and cartoons