His Final Words Were Hard to Read for All the Wrong Reasons
Ed Piskor responds to grooming allegations in his suicide note
On April Fools Day TheWrap.com published an obituary for Ed Piskor. It wasn’t a prank. The 41-year-old creator of the Hip Hop Family Tree comic and cohost of the Cartoonist Kayfabe podcast took his life April 1, 2024.
From The Wrap:
Prior to his death, he posted what appeared to be a suicide note in which he addressed — and denied — accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior that became public just a week earlier.
The weekend of March 24, artist Molly Dwyer, 21, accused Piskor of attempting to “groom” her when she was 17 years old and called him “a creep.” As evidence, she released screenshots of texts between her and Piskor from 2020, including one that read, “Are you 17 or 18? Imma be so mad if you say 17 because this crushes me at that age.”
Soon after, another woman, Molly Wright, accused Piskor of asking her for oral sex in exchange for giving her his agent’s phone number.
An exhibition of Piskor’s art was indefinitely postponed after the allegations became public. On March 30, “Cartoonist Kayfabe” cohost Jim Rugg publicly broke business ties with Piskor. — From TheWrap.com
