"In much the same way that Captain Caveman was basically just a thinly cohesive cloud of fur, limbs, and violent energy, Nicholas Gazin can best be described as a hirsute semi-blurry orb of artistic inertia. Born in the wagon of a traveling show, Nick has been harassing members of New York's art and music scenes into accepting him since his teenage years, which are a lot farther in the past than he would like to admit. At present he is juggling the roles of illustrator, comics man, "nightlife photographer," general gadfly, singer/front-person, and lover of ladies, all under strict and generally long-past deadlines. Sadly, his rate of production is responsible for an ever-increasing build-up of new assignments. If you are familiar with the mathematical concept of asymptote, you understand the dire situation that Nick's affairs are in. It is also completely wrecking his health and good looks."-ThomasMorton (Vice Magazine)"Getting paid to draw Leatherface is maybe one of the bossest things you can do in this life. Even after I had fulfilled the job I still find myself drawing Leatherface. Given a few more weeks I could easily have made a whole book of paintings inspired by Texas Chainsaw.The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. The sets, score and camerawork are all great but there's something about the way things move in that film that is beautiful to me. The scene where Pam almost escapes out the back door of the cannibal's house and is pulled back by Leatherface while her limbs are flailing in all directions is really sublime. I also love the scene where Kirk is walking into the house, drawn inwards by the red wall covered in animal skulls. So many of the scenes in that movie flicker through my brain regularly although I haven't been able to make myself watch it again for years now.I'm a big fan of the horror/comedy films produced between 1984 and 1987 and TCM2 is one of the best of those. The opening sequence alone has all the stuff I love crammed into five minutes as well as things that make no sense. Two preppy high school kids keep calling a sexy radio DJ who doesn't have the technology to hang up on them somehow. Then she plays the Cramps and follows it up with Oingo Boingo while the preppy, car phone owning jerks are terrorized by Leatherface. Also, they're driving fast and being attacked by Leatherface for like five minutes on a bridge that is clearly maybe fifty feet long. There's like a million great moments in Texas Chainsaw 2.When I was in my early twenties I had a dream that I was on Texas Chainsaw Island being chased around by an army of Leatherfaces. I didn't get killed in the dream but I knew it was just a matter of time since it was an island and I really had no place to escape to. Texas Chainsaw Island is copyright and trademarked to me by the way so nobody go and steal it. " - Nick Gazin
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