ARTICLES BY NICK GAZIN
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 TERRY GILLIAM
Terry Gilliam got his start being the most beloved guy in his high school and then he went on to do every job that anyone has ever fantasized about and to collaborate with everyone that anyone has ever wanted to meet or be. He worked for Harvey Kurtzman on Harvey’s longest-running post-Mad attempt at magazining. He was in Monty Python and did all those animations and distinctive visuals. Then he went on to make really big, great, depressing movies like...
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  LICK MY PRISON PIT
An Interview That Johnny Ryan Demanded We Do With HimJohnny Ryan is that guy whose drawings are festooned all over Vice. In addition to being Vice’s drawing mongrel, he’s also a free man with his own hobbies and projects. He started out drawing comics in a minicomic/zine before graduating to his full-size deal, Angry Youth Comix for Fantagraphics. After many, many years of being a wiseacre, he has amassed quite a few collections of his work, including...
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 BOBBY STEELE
Bobby Steele has been dicked over so royally throughout his life, he might as well change his name to Dick Royale. First, God pulled a fast one by giving him spina bifida followed by polio. Somehow he got over both and went on to become the guitarist for the Misfits from 1978 to 1980 (aka their tota...
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 GARBAGE TROVE
Mark Newgarden's Treasure is Another Man's TrashBeing in Mark Newgarden's house in Brooklyn is like hanging out in the brain of a middle-aged acid casualty. Every visible inch of space is crammed with so much grinning, bug-eyed ephemera from the last century of comics, you'd think you'd died and gone...
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 THE MOST INTERESTING HOMES I COULD FIND IN BROOKLYN
If you’re new to Brooklyn you might assume that it’s an overpriced ex-industrial wasteland that a whole bunch of grimy bars sprung out of, all of them blasting “Children of the Grave” to the point where you are no longer aware it’s playing. You might assume that about Brooklyn and be right. And, fin...
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 WHITHER THE HORROR
An Interview with Gerard WayGerard 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 they were all borderline goth (gothish?) a...
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 THE DUDE HAS NO MERCY
An Interview with Achewood’s Chris OnstadAs 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 other web comic, which usually reward stu...
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 BIG ANSWERS
An Interview with Anders NilsenAnders 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, mentally retarded boy doing the same in a plac...
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 BATMANIAC
An Interview with Chip KiddIn 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 all the Batman artifacts are Japanese an...
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 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-book size, are in many people’s o...
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 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 that sent me the most free stuff....
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