Molly Crabapple – Page 3 – Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore

May 1, 2009May 1, 2009

Sketchycon ’09 in NYC photos

Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird, Dr. Sketchy's Houston): Amber Ray and Gal Friday, The Slipper Room, April 25, 2009

So Alexis and I went to the first ever world-wide Dr. Sketchy’s convention this past weekend for the folks who run the various Dr. Sketchy’s branches. If you attended Monday’s session, you saw Alexis’s hangover and heard the CD made by Joe Wos (the director of Dr. Sketchy’s Pittsburgh and the Toonseum) – both of which were gotten at the convention.

The convention was a great deal of fun and VERY taxing on our livers (thank you, Molly!). Besides copious amounts of alcohol and bar hopping, there were a bunch of seminars filled with a ton of new ideas that we’re going to start implementing over the next couple of weeks and months.

Anyways, a bunch of folks took some really good photos and I thought you might be interested in seeing a couple.

The first night was a Dr. Sketchy’s drawing session for all the folks who run Dr. Sketchy’s but never actually get to DRAW at one. I’d be amazed if you’ve ever seen me pick up a pencil at one of our own sessions. Alexis is able to sneak a sketch in every now and then, but for the most part, it just doesn’t work too well, so this was pretty fun.

Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird) — Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird, Houston): Molly Crabapple, Gal Friday, Amber Ray, John Leavitt, The Slipper Room, April 25, 2009

Hey look, it’s me….I don’t think I’m drawing though. Probably flipping through the gift bag or something. Alexis up front drawing where she can get a better look (I moved up there a little later when another chair opened up).

Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird, Houston)

I have no idea what was going on in this next one…Molly and John obviously up to no good…

Photo by dmwah (Mathew Hohfeld), Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, Amber Ray

One of the drawing contests was conducted on Johnny Dallas’s front and back….apparently it took forever to scrub this stuff off the next morning.

Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird), Johnny Dallas — Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird, Houston): Johnny Dallas

Afterward, we went to a secret, secret after party at Sutra, a little bar covered with illustrations from the Karma Sutra (though you couldn’t really see them in the dark). All this is somewhat a haze…

And no, I have no idea what we were laughing about.

: Photo by Georgiana Elias (Montreal)

The next is the “Oh my God, who’s that making out over there??!!” photo.

The next day was a screening of the Dr. Sketchy’s documentary, which will get shown in Baltimore at some point (it’s freaking hysterical), tons of skillshare seminars, screwdrivers, and some amazing cupcakes from Glittle Cupcakes.

Photo by happykatie (Katie Laird, Houston)

Tell me that isn’t the most amazing loft ever. 🙂 Here’s Molly during the presentations.

Photo by dmwah (Matthew Hohfeld) — Photo by dmwah (Matthew Hohfeld, San Diego): Molly Crabapple with a bunch of people

Well, that’s probably enough photos. If you want to see more, check out the flickr pool.

Thanks so much to Molly Crabapple, our fearless leader, for putting this all together, and thank you to everyone who made us feel so welcome . . . if I start listing names, I’m literally going to have to list EVERYONE. We had a great time and have so many ideas now we’re not quite sure what to do with all of them. 🙂

April 27, 2009April 27, 2009

Dr. Sketchy’s tonight! With Sable Sin Cyr!

Hope you’ve not forgotten! If that flyer doesn’t make you want to be there with a sharpened pencil (or paint brush) ((or markers)) (((or embroidering kit))) then I just don’t know what to say. Alexis and I rolled in from NYC last night around one in the morning, having spent the weekend at Sketchycon with Molly Crabapple, John Leavitt, and the Sketchy branches of dozens of other cities around the world. We’re about as fired up as we can get.

By the way, we’ve added our Twitter feed over in the column on the right, so if you want up-to-the-second updates of when the next Sketchy’s is, other interesting things going on in Baltimore (Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey are at the Hustler Club this Friday…I haven’t found the details yet, but I’ll look them up for you), how many screwdrivers Alexis drank, or general public announcements like OH MY GOD SWINE FLU IS TOTALLY THE NEW BLACK, well, that’s where all that stuff will be.

What else? Oh, I hope you went to Glitterama.

Anyways…tonight, 7 o’clock, ONE TIME ONLY ON AN APRIL 27TH, **SABLE SIN CYR!!** At Dionysus, 8 Preston St, prizes from Atomic Books, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and Baby Tattoo Books! Bring your drawy stuff.

April 24, 2009

Photos from the Little Luna session!

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That’s easily my favorite photo. 🙂

Gazillions of thanks to Little Luna (Happy belated birthday!), who without, we would have all been very, very bored, and, well, things would have been somewhat awkward. Thanks to Lynn, Derrick, Andrew, and everyone else at Dionysus too for letting us draw pretty Luna in their dining room and for keeping our drinks filled (and getting lit with Alexis and I lit later on that evening after we finished putting everything back together).

Thanks to Jeff for the photos and Bill for holding down the door. Tons and tons of thanks to our sponsors Atomic Books, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and Baby Tattoo Books. By the way, Don from Artist & Craftsman gave away a ton of free art supplies . . . in addition the two art piles (water colors, canvases, etc) give away as prizes for a contest.

More photos, yes?

The next two of Little Luna in her Eve costume crack me up.

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This next one was for the Atomic Books sponsored contest, which was best incorporation of the Mini-Munny in your drawing, with the prize being the Mini-Munny.

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The above one cracked me up…if you can’t read the text, the top caption says, “I wonder what sort of accessory comes with Full-Size Luna?” and the bottom one says, “I wonder what sort of accessory comes with Full-Size Munny?”

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The next contest was for Symptomatica by Ragnar, from Baby Tattoo books.

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Watch out, Vanna.

Back to Luna…

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The contest was a new one….write the most fucked up sentence you can think of on a card, then pass it to the person on your left who then has to try and incorporate into their drawing.

There were some seriously demented sentences.

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Next session is this Monday, April 27th, at 7 with Sable Sin Cyr.

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Alexis and I are actually in NYC this weekend for a Dr. Sketchy’s convention, so, if the train explodes or Molly gets us all arrested, Bill and Jeff may have to run the shebang themselves, which could be all sorts an interesting adventure, but hopefully no trains will explode and since Alexis and I are quite good at evaporating after bar fights, there’s probably nothing to worry about.

Probably.