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Cover by Nick Gazin
 WELCOME TO OUR GUIDE
Hello Non-Believers,
You hold in your sweaty, sweaty mitts the Vice Guide to Comics. It’s not so much a guide to comics as a medium. Or, it’s a guide to the comics that I think are interesting and also me sucking up to the companies th...Read more |
  GARY PANTER’S TOP TEN COMICS
Gary Panter is a famous artist who designed Pee-wee’s Playhouse, drew three Frank Zappa album covers, designed the Screamers’ logo, recorded music with members of the Residents, and has made many great comics about his punk everyman, Jimbo. Recently there was...Read more |
 MORE AL JAFFEE THAN YOU NEED
Mad magazine was the equivalent of the Big Bang for American postwar humor. Mad taught people to question authority, to think for themselves, and to laugh at the absurdity and horror of life. The first 23 issues, which were in color and comic...Read more |
 BATMANIAC
An Interview with Chip Kidd
In 1996, Chip Kidd released a beautiful book that showed off his Batman collection called Batman Collected. Now, thirteen years later, he’s published a new volume, Bat-Manga!. It’s almost a sequel to his other Batbook except that ...Read more |
 BIG ANSWERS
An Interview with Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen is a great cartoonist whose work blows minds on a regular basis. His claim to fame would be the series Big Questions, which is a continuing story about a group of birds trying to survive and reacting to things and an unchaperoned, mental...Read more |
 JIMMY OLSEN: THE MIGHTIEST SUPERHERO OF THEM ALL
By Glenn Gazin
I will try to explain to you, but I have little hope that I can make you see. Jimmy Olsen was a great and true hero. There was a time when his fame covered the land like dead leaves in the fall. All knew him. All loved him. But that time is gone. His signal wa...Read more |
 THE DUDE HAS NO MERCY
An Interview with Achewood’s Chris Onstad
As is sometimes said, Achewood is the new Simpsons. The level of storytelling and the quality of the humor are pretty much unparalleled. It’s never clichéd, stupid, or a rip-off, which makes it pretty much the opposite of every o...Read more |
 WHITHER THE HORROR
An Interview with Gerard Way
Gerard Way went to the School of Visual Arts for cartooning, became a massive success with the band My Chemical Romance, and then returned to comics by writing the Dark Horse Comics series Umbrella Academy. The comic is a lot like X-Men if th...Read more |
 CRAIG YOE IS AN INDIANA JONES FOR PERV/NERD ARTIFACTS
By Craig Yoe
Joe Shuster, the artist creator of Superman and the whole flippin’ comic-book industry, did sadomasochistic art for a series of books titled Nights of Horror. It still blows my little mind that I found this unknown chapter in the seminal comic-b...Read more |
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