Molly Maud Kiely (born October 10, 1969)Kiely entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed Mar. 6, 2014. is a Canadian-American alternative cartoonist best known for erotica.Spurgeon, Tom (October 25, 2015), "FFF Results Post #434 -- Dirty Comics", Comics Reporter. Retrieved April 13, 2017 Her work is published by Fantagraphics/Eros Comix and has influenced other artists such as Jess Fink.
Kiely was born in Bracebridge, Ontario, raised in Kitchener, and attended the University of Waterloo.Vasseur, Richard (June 11, 2007), "Molly Kiely Artist of Gothic Classics", Jazma Online. Retrieved April 15, 2017 She has liked drawing her whole life, and discovered comics through Krazy Kat and Li'l Abner.Keller, Katherine, "She's That Kind of Girl", Sequential Tart. Retrieved April 15, 2017 She created her first minicomic in 1991 at San Diego Comic-Con.Dowers, Michael, "Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two" pp300-301. Retrieved April 15, 2017 She left Canada for San Francisco in 1992.
Her first comic, Communion, was a collaboration with J. Hagey based on a stream-of-consciousness poem about a one-night stand. It was published by the Eros Comix imprint of Fantagraphics in 1992.Mayerson, Ginger (February 4, 2006), "Erotica, Utopia and Judicial Proceedings", Sequential Tart. Retrieved April 15, 2017 In 1993, Wooley Comics commissioned her to do a comic adaptation of Marquis de Sade's novel Philosophy in the Bedroom.
She describes her work as "clean line style" that has been compared to Aubrey Beardsley and Jaime Hernandez.
The pornographic nature of her work sometimes draws judgement from feminists who see her as helping men exploit women.Hall, Ed (April 28, 2011), "Chester 5000 XYV: Pornography and feminism in the graphic novel", Burnaway. Retrieved April 15, 2017 Under Subsection 163 of the Canadian Criminal Code, the Canadian Customs and Post Office occasionally confiscated Kiely's work when it was being mailed between her and Eros in 1995.
She had a daughter with her husband in 2007 before being widowed in 2015."About", Official website. Retrieved April 14, 2017 As of 2017, Kiely resides in Tucson, Arizona with her daughter.
Selected bibliography Communion, 1992 (written by Jonathan Hagey) Philosophy in the Bedroom, 1993 Diary of a Dominatrix, 3 volumes, 1994–1995 Sass, 1995Kirby, Robert (February 26, 2015), "Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two", The Comic Journal. Retrieved April 15, 2017 Saucy Little Tart, 5 volumes, 1995–1997 That Kind of Girl, 1999 Tecopa Jane, 2000 On Your Knees Boy, 2002 Adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji in the anthology The Graphic Cannon, edited by Russ KickArmitage, Hugh (September 17, 2013), "5 graphic novels to improve your mind: 'Neurocomic', 'xkcd', more", Digital Spy. Retrieved April 13, 2017
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