Molly Grab Apple

July / August, 2016

MOLLY GRAB APPLEARTIST IN RESIDENCEI first met Molly Crab apple, the sexy goth girl next door—she’d be as comfortable in the PLAYBOY of yore as she is in this feature—at an altcomix festival in lower Manhattan about eight years ago. At the time, she was drawing an erotic fin-de-siècle-styled comic book about a Jewish fire-eating burlesque queen named Scarlett O’Herring. Molly, who had actually worked as a fire-eating burlesque queen herself while a struggling art student, soonfigured out that co...