Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book

by Molly Crabapple & John Leavitt, Molly Crabapple (Editor), John Leavitt (Editor)

Finally in print - the official companion volume to Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School! Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book is one part DIY handbook, one part activity book on acid, and one part history of the Sketch Revolution. To sweeten the broth, we've added dozens of photos, paper dolls, colouring book pages and puppets of Amber Ray, Lolita Haze, Little Brooklyn, Audra Gwarskitty,and all your other favorite Dr. Sketchy's models. Much like popular Victorian cure-all tonics, Dr. Sketchy's Official Rainy Day Colouring Book is a natrual cure for boredom, apathy, shingles, gout, sobriety, and erectile dysfunction. It can even buy you Love! (or at least explain how to hire her for an evening to strip down to her pasties). Lovingly illustrated, adorned with dirty humor and black wit, this book is twice as good as James Joyce's Ulysses - and three times as sexy. This Book 192 Pages. 11 Paper Dolls. 9 Colouring Book Pages. 6 Interviews. 1 Maze. 3 Word Puzzles. 1 Board Game. 7 Good Ideas. 4 Bad Ideas. 2 ways to make Invisible Ink. 9 drink recipies. 1 Evil Curse. 2 cut-out pasties. 68 new Molly Crabapple illustrations. 17 John Leavitt cartoons. 1 Fred Harper cartoon. 4 playlists. 1 false history. 2 accurate histories. 1 way to rule the world.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you do not want a book full of fun burlesque paper dolls and coloring pages, well you just need to take a good long look at your life and ask where you went wrong. Also, this book is not or you. In addition, it contains a few histories of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School life drawing events, which I had not heard of before receiving the book as a gift, and some useful tools for starting these events in your area, some of which anyone can use, like drink recipes. I read it all and now am battling competing urges. As a librarian, I do not wish to befoul my pretty book; as a long time coloring book aficionado, my fingers are itching for crayons.

[Lani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bought this as a way to support CBLDF at SPX a few years ago, well before I'd actually made it to a Dr Sketchy's. On that first flip-through I just enjoyed a light-hearted 'adult activity book' with some poorly lit photos of burlesque performers.

I'm not an artist, but I've really enjoyed the Dr S sessions I've gone to, and when I moved I had considered starting up my own branch. (It turns out that just this week a DC Dr S is re-born, so I won't have to go to the trouble!) Now being more familiar with at least my own branch of Dr S, I flipped through the book a second time and found it much more interesting.

The book does still contain some silliness like paper dolls and activities, but it also includes a history of the event, interviews, photos, and a 'how-to' for starting your own branch. As a resource, it's pretty helpful, but as anything else I'm not sure why you would pick it up.

[Recynd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the coolest book, ever. It's hard to categorize it; kind of a grown up activity book, with lots of creative inspiration. I bought this book at last year's Comic Con, where I met Molly C. herself. I confess to falling head-over-heels infatuated with her, so I might be biased...

[Alice Urchin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little book, filled with inspirational and practical advice for artistic weirdos like me who want to make a living off of their creativity