amie barrodale
vikki chu
Amie Barrodale used to work for us, but then she moved to India and after that to Seattle. Now she’s getting published all over the place and winning awards and having her stories read aloud by James Franco because she’s a goddamn brilliant fiction writer.
Vikki Chu is an illustrator and artist who depicts things in dreamy, semi-realistic ways, using colors that seem mighty fine, at least to our ol’ eyeballs.
See THE NUMBER, page 90
kristina collantes
malin bergström Malin Bergström is a Swedish illustrator whose colorful, meticulous drawings and collages we very much dig. She’s currently based in Stockholm, where she freelances for a few magazines, including this one. See THE NUMBER, page 90
stein brianhoff Inside this issue you will find Stein Brianhoff’s first illustration for a publication, and he tells us he has no formal art education, which is surprising because we think he illustrated a story about puke quite nicely, and that can be a very hard thing to do.
See THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE ON THE CROSSTOWN BUS, page 84
Kristina Collantes is a talented and erudite illustrator and artist from the Philippines who currently resides in San Diego. Besides VICE, her work has appeared in the New Yorker and GQ. See GAUDIFINGERS, page 94
joe denardo Joe grew up in various midwestern suburbs and of course primarily rooted for the Cubs and Bears. He started and continues to play in the band GROWING, one of our favorites. He enjoys working in collage, photography, film, and sound because he is an awesome person. See MY FATHER AT THE END, page 60
See ON THE ILLNESS, page 78
tony burgess Canadian author Tony Burgess is responsible for The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, and Caesarea, three books you should read in the immediate future. In 2010, he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pontypool, adapted, as you might have guessed, from Pontypool Changes Everything. See GAUDIFINGERS, page 94
cf Providence-based artist and musician CF is one of the busiest guys we know. His books include Powr Mastrs volumes 1 through 3, as well as Core of Caligula and City Hunter. He performs as Mark Lord and, every so often, Kites. See THREE GANGSTER FABLES, page 64
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amy elkins Amy Elkins is a photographer from Venice Beach, California. She’s best known for Black Is the Day, Black Is the Night, a series in which her portraits of prison inmates have various degrees of pixelation and blurriness, depending on their age and how long they’ve been incarcerated. See OVERSOUL, page 70
nick gazin You probably already know Nick Gazin because he’s done a ton of stuff for VICE forever—illustrations, comic-book reviews, articles about nerds and nerd stuff, blah blah blah—but do you know how he smells? We do, but we’re not telling. See JAWBREAKER’S MAJOR-LABEL ALBUM, page 80