Cover drawing by Edrem
Hi, hello. Welcome to our November "No Photos" Issue. If you've gotten your hands on a print copy of the magazine, you know it's a sumptuously printed tome containing the drawerly works of 35 of our favorite drawers with nary a photo to be found.
While we think that 90 pages of illustrated portfolios makes for good reading, we realized it might be a little much to spread that out over the course of an entire month on the website. So here's what we're going to do. Every morning we'll run a profile of a new artist we like along with some ginormous pictures for you to really delve into. Then at around noon (American noon), we'll put up something non-drawy like an interview with a guy who does stuff or an article about food. That sound good? Oh, and also keep your eyes on the blog for a whole bunch of extras from this issue and the last one, as well as new interactive features and so on.
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| Illustrations by J Penry. Click to enlarge |
 VICE MAILLetters - The No Photos IssuePush in the Kush (Valley), Emotional Threesome, Spare Some Change?, 'Do You Wanna Supersize That?', Less Drugs, Please, R.I.P. The World...READ MORE | |
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  EDREM ARE FRENCH SHIT, BUT BACKWARDSRemember the things you drew when you were ten years old? The weird animals, the people with big noses, the goofy monsters, and copious dicks and turds? Those were really good. You shouldn't have stopped drawing that stuff.
The three Bordeaux, France-base...READ MORE | |
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 THE DARK LORD OF LOGOSVice: So, Christophe Szpajdel, we hear that you're the master of black-metal logos. But who are you, really?
Christophe: I am 37 years old, I come from Belgium but I live in Exeter, Devon, in the UK. In the last 20 years I have drawn more th...READ MORE | |
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 RAGNAR PERSSON IS A 28-YEAR-OLD SWEDE...Vice: Do you ever cringe when you go through your archives?
Ragnar: Not when I look at the things I did when I was 16-all those awesome zombie drawings. The only things that I'm embarrassed about are the drawings I made when I was going to an art s...READ MORE | |
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 FRENCHMAN ANGELO DI MARCO BELIEVES IN MORAL ABSOLUTESAngelo di Marco takes random human-interest stories and turns them into horrorific masterpieces of draftsmanship. French people are crazy about his work. His drawings have been in pretty much every newspaper over there during the past five decades, as well as ...READ MORE | |
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 JIM KREWSON IS PROBABLY PLAYING BANJO...Vice: You drew all these for the Frieze Art Fair, right? Isn't it in like a teepee or an igloo or some shit? Tell all!
Jim Krewson: Um, close. It's for Dicksmrs. Gallery and it's in a yurt outside the Frieze Fair with lots of performancy things hap...READ MORE | |
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 SKINEMABy Chris NieratkoTHIS AIN'T THE MUNSTERS XXX
I don't like scary movies-they scare me. I was seeing a therapist once for it but it all seemed like a big waste of time. I felt like he wasn't listening to me. He was always texting someone on his cell phone. Is that no...READ MORE | |
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 IF YOU POST PICTURES OF YOUR NAKED GIRLFRIEND...Vice: How do these thingies work? Do you draw the pictures and add the color when you're done or what?
Nick Gazin: First I draw it, then I block in the colors in watercolor and go over the lines in charcoal.
Fascinating. How did you get in...READ MORE | |
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 STREET POLLSelf-Portrait TimeVice: What's going on here?
Kate: I drew lots of people, including you.
Which one am I?
The one in the lower right, here.
OK.
I tried to get your lovely smile!...READ MORE | |
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 MERIJN HOS IS A PRETTY STURDY GUYVice: What did you draw as a little Dutch boy? A bunch of bongs and doobies?
Merijn Hos: Lots of boats, actually. I wanted to be a captain, but then I went to art school.
Do you regret it?
A little bit. I might still do that, thoug...READ MORE | |
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 EPICLY LATER’DBy Patrick O’Dell, illustration by Kevin “Spanky” LongI hate kids. I mean, not kids in general, but little clueless turds at the skatepark who wear helmets and ask dumb questions like, "How high can you ollie?" and "Can I have your board?" I hate air babies, the kids who do fatty to flatties out of the bowl, or t...READ MORE | |
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 BEN ROSS IS AN AUSTRIAN ARTIST...Vice: Hi Ben. We really like the cat motif you have going in these drawings.
Ben Ross: To tell you the truth, it's never really been my intention to draw cats. It just happened. Maybe I watched too many cartoons when I was young. Disney, Kricfalus...READ MORE | |
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 GRUDGE MATCHMob Rules Are Not a German Power-Metal BandLeeds, for me, is a horrible place. Cold, grey and grim. Both my parents worked all day every day during the week so when I was a kid I got carted off to my auntie Jane’s place near Chapeltown in Leeds for large chunks of the summer holidays every year. To thi...READ MORE | |
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 MARTIN SKAUEN PREFERS DOGS TO HUMANSVice: Hello, you Norwegian artist you. I command thee to describe your drawings without using the word "amazing." Ready? Go!
Martin Skauen: They're static, like two-dimensional sculptures. And I like to use patterns to depict how things are forced ...READ MORE | |
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 VICE FASHION - GUTE NACHT, MOONEvery German and Austrian kid is raised on Felicitas Kuhn's illustrations. She's designed gazillions of children's books and her drawings are synonymous with nursery rhymes, rosy cheeks, and postwar happiness. When grown-up Jerries see her books now, they get ...READ MORE | |
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 MATT LOCK EMBRACES THE UGLINESS OF REALITYVice: When did you start making art?
Matt Lock: I've been drawing since I was a kid. But I didn't get serious about art until mid-2005.
What were wee Matt's drawings like?
I mostly copied book covers, comic books, posters, and acti...READ MORE | |
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 SHOHEI IS A ONE-NAMED JAPANESE MAN...Vice: I hear you only draw with ballpoint pens and permanent markers.
Shohei: Yes, because I like to draw in black. At first I was using pencils, but I didn't like the way that the pencil lines shone silver. Then I realized that ballpoints are che...READ MORE | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - The No Photos IssueBARNACLED
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I could not tell you what the fuck is going on with this thing. It's like electric klezmer music from Baltimore, but every so often there's a weird noise interlude that sounds like you're underwater? All I know is that listening ...READ MORE | |
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 CHARLOTTE DELARUE IS THE FEMININE IDEAL...The French edition of Vice shares an office with a "creative company" called Surface to Air (we call them Surface to Gay behind their backs). But one good thing about them is that they employ the most beautiful, feminine creature ever to walk the earth....READ MORE | |
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 VICE FASHION - MY DEAREST PEOPLEAna Kras is a 24-year-old illustrator, photographer, designer, video-artist, architect, ballet-pose-striker and general do-er of various cool, pretty things who hails from Belgrade, Serbia. You can see a drawing of her equally pretty self above. A few months a...READ MORE | |
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 MIMI LEUNG ADMITS THAT SHE IS INTERESTED IN POOPVice: Hello, Mimi Leung. Describe how you got to be talking to me here now via being born and then living as a human on this earth.
Mimi Leung: I was born in Hong Kong. My parents moved to the UK when I was two because they were nervous about unres...READ MORE | |
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 RAW CHINAMy Name Is TennisDriving his white Chang An Ling Mu "City Baby" compact past the 5th Ring Road into the far west precincts of Beijing Coach Johnee surveys the grey murk ahead in the distance. "I've been driving out here every day for three months and I still haven't seen the ...READ MORE | |
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 KEITH JONES WANTS TO BE A DOG BUT IS REALLY A BIRDVice: I imagine the inside of your brain looking like your drawings, but more Canadian.
Keith Jones: Yeah, sometimes it's daunting. It's like, "Oh no, it's going to be darker this time than it was last time." I get into weird themes of obsession.READ MORE | |
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 LITERARYBook Reviews - The No Photos IssueSkins And Punks, Do Not Give Way To Evil, Lost In The Post, Raid Pace, Vandal Squad, Niche Homo 1, Beijing Bubbles, The End Of Living The Beginning Of Survival, Sex Beat 1, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes, Don't Take Your Life, Various Folk Tales Vol. One, Inky...READ MORE | |
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 VICE FASHION - THE BEST DICK IN ITALYBill Garganzola (not his real name) runs a private investigation firm in Milan, the cheating-on-your-spouse capital of the world (most likely). The way we see it, being an Italian PI is basically like being a chocolate inspector in the land of chocolate, or a ...READ MORE | |
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