Molly Crabapple
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Molly Crabapple is an American artist and writer. She is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for a variety of other outlets, as well as publishing books, including an illustrated memoir, Dr
Molly Crabapple in 2026
Dr. Sketchy's at Avant Garden bar in Houston, Texas, 2010
Crabapple (right) at the ACT-I-VATE panel at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
2016 self-portrait
Vampire squid
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The vampire squid is a small cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans in extreme deep sea conditions. The vampire squid uses its bioluminescent organs and its unique oxygen metabolism
Molly Crabapple
…Crabapple has recalled. "And in doing these, I found my voice." Author Matt Taibbi called Crabapple "Occupy's greatest artist," noting the use of the "vampire squid" theme in her Occupy artwork. A fan of Taibbi's writing, Crabapple had read his 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine," in which…
Vampyroteuthis illustration
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Oral view
Pyritized fossil of Vampyronassa rhodanica from the Lower Callovian of La Voulte-sur-Rhône.