Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen was to really watch her, in the way that only drawing someone lets me do. Molly Crabapple More Quotes by Molly Crabapple More Quotes From Molly Crabapple When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed. Molly Crabapple going-out bravery men One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is. Molly Crabapple odds views commitment The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations. Molly Crabapple illustration pages differences Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy. Molly Crabapple jailer unhealthy feels New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes. Molly Crabapple eye cities new-york The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence. Molly Crabapple down-and people thinking I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true. Molly Crabapple smart birth-control lying The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff. Molly Crabapple tired country america I didn't want to be beholden to one person. So I did something where I had hundreds of people who backed the work. I could just do work, and since a lot of people were interested in it, I wasn't beholden to any particular one of them. Molly Crabapple persons want people I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not. Molly Crabapple parent mean children I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job. Molly Crabapple sometimes jobs sex Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support. Molly Crabapple support motivation sex Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world. Molly Crabapple innocence sometimes world I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but. Molly Crabapple thumbs cutting But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger. Molly Crabapple harder swagger giving Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that. Molly Crabapple doing you painting process Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.' Molly Crabapple me man funny art Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses. Molly Crabapple diamonds go fake snow Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever. Molly Crabapple cool you life world The first time I made any money, I was 27. I went to Bergdorf's looking like a proper guttersnipe and bought a pair of Louboutins. I'd wear them and an old ink-stained kimono and make my drawings and feel indomitable. Molly Crabapple looking feel money time
