The “Jaws” theme music plays over the Windup Space’s sound system as a short, striking young woman stretches out on stage in a shimmering green mermaid costume. Buh-duh. Buh-duh. The woman stays very ...

In 2005 New York artist Molly Crabapple founded an “anti-art school” in a Brooklyn dive bar built on the appealing premise: “dames, drinking and drawing.” In the nine years since, Dr. Sketchy’s ...

There’s art school… then there’s Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School, an art school that seconds (or firsts) as an alternative drawing movement. It’s as if someone took a not so motionless snapshot of live ...

What could be better than a Dr. Sketchy Life Drawing session? With nearly nude models lounging around for your drawing pleasure and libations liberally flowing, it’s already a pretty good time. At the ...

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So what do you do if you wake up one day with a strange new urge to make comics? How do you learn to write and draw what legendary cartoonist Will Eisner dubbed “sequential art”? If you’re under 14, ...