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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #89

Dear Comic Lovers
: My name is Nicholas Gazin, and I love comics. Approximately once a week I write a column in which I cover comics, art, illustration, and nerd interest and review some books. My last two columns for VICE were photo blogs about art shows. Sorry. This one's about comics again. Full story

The Silverball Pinball Museum Is My Everything

Pinball is pretty much all I care about. I make art and I write and I have friends and blah blah blah, but it's all just a means to get quarters and play pinball. The best place to play pinball on the East Coast is the Silverball Museum in Asbury, New Jersey. Full story

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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #87

Dear VICE Comic Lovers: My drawings were in an art show called the 'Sketchbook Show' at the Ashmore Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, and it was wonderful. I was surrounded by talented little Savannah College of Art and Design students and ex-students who were nervous to meet me. The… Full story

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #84

Dear Comic Booklings: How's it going? Oh, really? OK, don't actually care. Here are the things of import happening right now in the world of drawings, paintings, inkings, and drawings with words in them. Full story

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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #82

Dear Discriminating Reader, how are you? I am fine. This is my mostly weekly column for VICE in which I review comics and share images, news, and reviews related to comics, illustration, fine art, and nerd stuff. Full story

Talkin' 'Bout the Boards

My Best Valentine's Day Was at a Strip Club

Dear Vicers, each week I scour the comments sections looking for the dumbest of the dumb, and then I commemorate them with little cartoons that I draw. Full story

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Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #81

Have you heard of China's most popular comic strip, 'Sanmao'? It's about as funny as crib death. Sanmao is a starving urchin child who has a distinctive hairstyle that consists of three large strands, the unfortunate result of malnutrition. Full story

Talkin' 'Bout the Boards

This Is What Classifies as Gonzo These Days!?

Dear VICERS: It's me Nick Gazin, and I'M back to let YOU know that I can really shake it down. Do you love me? As I sometimes like doing, I drew little cartoons about the three dumbest comments left on VICE this week. Full story

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #80

This might be the kind of book that is a godsend if you're stupid and can't focus. But I feel like this didn't need to be a comic at all. It could have just been a regular book and it would have wasted less paper that way. Full story

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #79

My New Year's resolution was to review all the comics that have piled up in my kitchen, around my bedroom, and in my bathroom. I owe it to the comic artists and publishers who have mailed them to me but I also owe it to me because it looks like my house is inhabited by a crazy pe… Full story