Fat ‘n’ Furious
Mollie Cronin

July 29 — August 27, 2023
open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm

Closing Reception: Friday, August 25th at 6pm

This collection of Mollie Cronin’s work includes early comics, strips from her time at The Coast, and various pieces from nearly a decade of working under the pseudonym “Art Brat Comics.”

In Swamp Girl she embarks on her first long-form fiction comic, telling a story about the music and arts scene in a fictional swamp loosely based on the creative environments she has moved through in the Atlantic.

In For Your Age, she revisits (and fictionalizes) a relationship she had as a teen with an older man.

In a triptych of recent ink drawings, she brings her illustration practice to a larger scale, and imagines the potential for the body as site for ornament, expression, and even as a kind of comic page.

After spending her time at art school reading books, Cronin has spent the last 8 years teaching herself how to become a cartoonist. Her work tackles daunting issues (misogyny, fatphobia, grief), cleverly clawing at them to find the universal in the personal, and poking fun at/holes in supposed truths. Her illustrations create the body representation she craved growing up (and didn’t even know could exist), fat people shown as self-possessed and unapologetic. Her feminist auto-biographical comics weave fact and fiction, telling stories that are just true enough to be interesting but not so true that she really gets in trouble (Halifax is a small town, after all!). 

Mollie Cronin grew up in Fredericton, NB, and Halifax, NS. She attended the University of King’s College (FYP Program) and graduated from NSCAD with a BA in Art History in 2015. She is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, curator, and teacher of comics. In the Fall of 2023 she will begin a master’s program at Queen’s University in Gender Studies, looking at representations of fat femininity in comics.