This Sunday- Signing + Dr Sketchy’s in Boston
November 3rd, 2009
Sunday November 8, 2009 2.30-5.30pm
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Burlesque Life Drawing Session
featuring: Molly Crabapple! Johnny Blazes! Madge of Honor!
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave Allston (at corner of Harvard)
$8 2.30-5.30pm 18+ (bring your ID, this is a bar)
http://truthserum.org
In honor of the release of Molly Crabapple’s new book, we’re having a very special Dr. Sketchy session with Molly herself running the show. Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor will model and play out scenes from the book.
Dr. Sketchy is the life drawing session you dreamed of in your dirty little art school head. Hot models with crazy costumes, sometimes genderbending antics, poses that keep your interest for hours, nice folks around you, beer, and it’s cheap. The models talk and keep you entertained, there’s good music, you could win prizes for good and bad art! You don’t have to be a good artist, or someone who draws everyday. Dr. Sketchy is a great place to start back, or to try to pick up a new creative outlet.
We start with short poses to get you warmed up and then move on to longer and longer poses, but that’s about where the traditional life drawing session stops… Check out the photos section for images of past Sketchy’s Sessions.
Dr. Sketchy’s World Headquarters
On July 8th, Fugu Press released Scarlett Takes Manhattan, the first graphic novel by Dr. Sketchy’s creator Molly Crabapple and her longtime collaborator John Leavitt. Set in the demimonde of Gilded Age New York, Scarlett Takes Manhattan tells the story of poor Bowery girl Shifra Helfgott, who rises to become the premier fire-eater of her age.
Chock full of rigged boxing matches, dirty politics, and turn of the century lesbian culture, “Scarlett” has been described as “disgustingly wonderful” by Warren Ellis and led Margaret Cho to call Molly “THE artist of our time.”
