When did CBGB get taken over by roided-out rock ’n’ roll tourists? It’s become like Extreme Planet Hollywood, and I fear for its future if it carries on like this.Comments/Enlarge |
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I hate these suicidal poets who are pushing mid-30s and dress like tampons just so they can maybe sneak up a drunk student's gash.Comments/Enlarge |
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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.
Illustrations by J Penry. Click to enlarge
VICE MAIL Letters - The No Photos Issue Push in the Kush (Valley), Emotional Threesome, Spare Some Change?, 'Do You Wanna Supersize That?', Less Drugs, Please, R.I.P. The World...READ MORE
EDREM ARE FRENCH SHIT, BUT BACKWARDS Remember 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
THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS Vice: 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
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
FRENCHMAN ANGELO DI MARCO BELIEVES IN MORAL ABSOLUTES Angelo 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
SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard DEAD SPACE Dead Space is a third-person over-the-shoulder shooter set on the planet-cracking mining starship Ishimura, full of monsters made from the fused and repurposed dead...READ MORE
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
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko THIS 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...READ MORE
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...READ MORE
JUDGMENT DAY: VICKI BEHRINGER SKETCHES PEOPLE ABOUT TO GO TO JAIL Not all artists spend their days smoking hand-rolled cigarettes and getting hammered down at the Rusty Toe while wondering what to do with the next few weeks of their lives as they wait for a "gallerist" to decide that they want to pay $14,000 for a cube cove...READ MORE
TWOTOM LIKES SMILES EVEN MORE THAN PENISES Vice: Your stuff is supergay. Who are all the handsome boys in your drawings?
TwoTom: They're my friends and they all live in TwoTom Utopia. They say hello to you!...READ MORE
STREET POLL Self-Portrait Time Vice: What's going on here?
Kate: I drew lots of people, including you. Which one am I?...READ MORE
MERIJN HOS IS A PRETTY STURDY GUY Vice: 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
EPICLY LATER’D By Patrick O’Dell, illustration by Kevin “Spanky” Long I 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
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
GRUDGE MATCH Mob Rules Are Not a German Power-Metal Band Leeds, 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...READ MORE
MARTIN SKAUEN PREFERS DOGS TO HUMANS Vice: 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
CSI BERLIN: TATJANA BERGIUS USED TO DRAW HORRIBLE THINGS FOR THE POLICE Two years ago I interviewed Tatjana Bergius for the Cops Issue of Vice in Germany. She used to work for the Berlin police drawing rapists, murderers and other nasty people, as well as the scenes where these and other horrific crimes took place. Shortly ...READ MORE
MATTEO GUALANDRIS’S CAT JUST DIED, SO PLEASE BE NICE TO HIM Vice: Hi Matteo. The first digits of your phone number sound familiar. Do you live close to the Milan airport?
Matteo Gualandris: Yeah, I live in Robecchetto con Induno, a small town on the border between Lombardy and Piedmont...READ MORE
VICE FASHION - GUTE NACHT, MOON Every 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
MATT LOCK EMBRACES THE UGLINESS OF REALITY Vice: 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?...READ MORE
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
RECORDS Music Reviews - The No Photos Issue BARNACLED
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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...READ MORE
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
VICE FASHION - MY DEAREST PEOPLE Ana 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
MIMI LEUNG ADMITS THAT SHE IS INTERESTED IN POOP Vice: 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
RAW CHINA My Name Is Tennis Driving 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
KEITH JONES WANTS TO BE A DOG BUT IS REALLY A BIRD Vice: 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
DR. LAKRA HAS A TATTOO OF A DEMON PEEING ON JESUS’S FACE Vice: Where did you get the name Dr. Lakra? What kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Lakra: When I started tattooing around 1991, I would always carry around a doctor's briefcase, and someone gave me that nickname-I'm a lakra doctor, the kind that g...READ MORE
LITERARY Book Reviews - The No Photos Issue SKINS AND PUNKS
Unless you are allergic to photo books, you should already have come across Gavin Watson’s first offering, Skins. This book offered an unparalleled and unsurpassed...READ MORE
VICE FASHION - THE BEST DICK IN ITALY Bill 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
ROWAN TEDGE HAS AMPLE TIME ON THE TRAIN EVERY DAY TO BE CREATIVE Vice: Your style is quite distinctive, how would you describe it?
Rowan Tedge: Well I have a really busy style. The reason for this has largely to do with the fact that I do most of my drawing while travelling on the train, which ends up affecting ...READ MORE
