I was introduced to Molly Crabapple’s art through a link on Audacia Ray’s website about a year and was immediately charmed. There are things you can get away with in a drawing that you’d never dare in a photography, and Molly gets away with all of them. Molly knows naughty, and I like naughty a lot!

So last month, when Thomas S. Roche asked me if we’d donate some door prizes for the Barbary Coast edition of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, I was more than happy to put a few DVDs in a box and post them post haste! (As it happens, I will be able to attend the Feb session in person, because it is the same weekend as the GayVN Awards.)

That sent me back to Molly’s website to see what new work she might have posted, and that’s when it hit me — I had to ask Molly to draw me a picture. A few e-mails and one long phone call later and Molly and I had a concept.

Today I saw some prelimary sketches (which took me by surprise because I hadn’t yet sent her the fee for the commission!) and it’s going to be a very lovely, and naughty drawing; perhaps even a bit lewd.

I am very, very excited!

(And I sent Molly a check straight away. My experience is artists work better when they’re not starving!)

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