"Molly Kiely...does things with just black ink that most people can't do with the entire color spectrum."

~ Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle; June 15 2012

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I was conceived above a Jewish bakery in Saint Louis, Missouri; and came into the world during an October snowstorm in Bracebridge, Ontario. I survived the Bay Area ‘90s tech boom; and escaped to rural Arizona in the early 2000s, where I divide my time between Gravel Flats and Crooked Sky.

Once upon a time I made ‘zines and underground comix: including the Diary of a Dominatrix and Saucy Little Tart series, published between 1993 and 1997; and the graphic novels That Kind of Girl and Tecopa Jane published in 1999 and 2003. I remain quite pleased with the drawings I made for the Gestetner-printed Canadian ‘zine Ralph: Coffee, Jazz, and Poetry in the early 1990s; and my adaptations of The Tale of Genji, Venus in Furs, and Blood and Guts in High School for the three Graphic Canon books published in 2012 and 2013.

I am an avid desert flaneur and scavenger; and I create shambles from the treasures that the pixies leave for me.

As I spend much of my time outside, I have no need to work for exposure. Contact me to arrange a tattoo consultation.