About Molly Crabapple

If you’re a certain type of bitter, intellectual female, you like Dorothy Parker. The smart-ass 20's writer is an all ages tonic- consoling you through bad love affairs and high-school unpopularity. Originally born Dorothy Rothschild (not those Rothschilds!), Dottie claimed … Read More

Remember when Jessica Cutler signed a 250,000 dollar book deal, and when Tucker Max’s smarmy grin was plastered over airport bookstores coast to coast? Well, it seems that 2005’s mania for internet content providers is finally trickling down to those … Read More

Did you know illustrators used to be big stars? Norman Rockwell could buy a house on his fees from doing one magazine cover. Little Nemo creator Windsor McCay got to trod the boards on the vaudeville stage, just cause of … Read More

Late into the night on G-chat, me and artist Genevive Zacconi bitch about our hair and the gallery world in equal measure. Her constant refrain is that very few people understand her conceptual, classically painted art. So, Jewcy readers, here's … Read More

At 24, Lux Nightmare is already on her second career. As a nineteen year old, she was creator and operator of That Strange Girl, one of the first altporn sites (i.e. a site with naked, unconventional-looking models) online. Now, Lux, … Read More

A Canadian radio station recently contacted me through myspace. They wanted to book me to talk about my drawing class on their arts program. When I asked them about their unorthodox means of getting in touch, they told me that … Read More

When I was 18, I traveled for months in Turkey, Turkish Kurdistan and Morocco. The Middle East is always interesting for a girl alone, but for a one with an agenda it can be particularly informative. And agenda I had! … Read More

By most measures, my great-uncle Lawrence was a hippie. He ate vegetarian, grew his hair long, preached pacifism, fasted in the woods to find his purpose in life, and eked out his living as a painter. But, Lawrence lived during … Read More

We all know the shiksa. Heartthrob of Woody Allen movies, competitor of Sheila Levine. Blonde. Skinny thigh-ed. Neurosis free. But whither her male counterpart? In Yiddish, we have no term for the sexy Aryan male. Goy doesn’t cut it. We … Read More

You know Sol Bloom’s music. It’s the classic Deedeedee-Dee-Dee of snake charmers and Hollywood belly dancers- a tune so archetypical that it’s hard to believe that it didn’t emerge fully formed from the popular hive-mind. Harder still to believe that … Read More