BACKSTAGE is dazzling retro-fetish. Just enough histro-smut, transgressive comedy, and wacky badgirlism to make you wish there were MacArthur Genius Awards for Sultry Artist/Writer Duos Kicking through the Web. Manhattan never looked more deadly.

- Mel Gordon. Author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin



Molly Crabapple is an American Renaissance woman. In a market that increasingly demands simplicity, she delivers the opposite, juxtaposing a candy shoppe visual aesthetic of sweetness (all pinks and curlicues) with a harsh tale of the sordid underbelly, justifying the title "Backstage"...the truth behind the beauty.

- Trav S.D. Author of No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

A B O U T

The comic “Backstage” follows the adventures of gossip-mongers/failed vaudevillians, Johnny Panama And Elizabeth Delancy. As reporters for the yellow tabloid “Backstage” Johnny and Elizabeth report on Anarchist dance hall numbers, debauched uptown parties, and where to find the cheapest liquor in town.

Set in Gilded Age New York and rendered in Molly Crabapple’s signature style, “Backstage” is a comic romp through sex, drugs, and murder.