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The memoir of art as resistance. Molly Crabapple — artist, journalist, professional troublemaker — drew her way from burlesque posters to the front lines: Guantanamo, Syria, Occupy Wall Street. Drawing Blood is her memoir-manifesto: how a New York art brat became the most exciting political artist of her generation, one sketch at a time.
Crabapple writes like she draws — boldly, beautifully, without apology. Her stories of drawing in war zones and courtrooms, of the model’s life and the activist’s, add up to a portrait of the artist as witness. The illustrations alone are worth the price; the prose is a fierce, funny bonus.
Fierce, funny, and gorgeous. For anyone who believes art should do something — and for everyone who loves New York at its most alive. A call to arms in ink. Crabapple’s ink is her weapon and her witness. Fierce, funny, and utterly original — the political artist of her generation.
Drawing Blood is the unforgettable memoir of Molly Crabapple — artist, journalist, and one of the most distinctive visual voices of her generation. Published by HarperCollins in 2015, it covers the turbulent years between 9/11 and the Occupy movement in New York City and around the world.
Born Jennifer Caban in Queens, New York, Crabapple reinvented herself through art. To fund her education, she worked as a nude model and took unconventional jobs, all while developing an illustration style that is irreverent and gorgeous. She fused art with activism, reporting from conflict zones and protest movements and turning her drawings into instruments of journalism.
Written in language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving, and illustrated with her own work, Drawing Blood is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of an era — a testament to creativity as survival. Crabapple’s story proves that reinvention is possible, and that a pen can be as powerful as any weapon.
For readers of memoir, art, and fearless first-person journalism, this is an essential read.
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