Nick Gazin
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #91
Dear Sequential Graphics Enthusiasts, my name is Nicholas and this is my weekly column for VICE, in which I share news, images, and reviews pertaining to comics, books, illustration, fine art, and general nerd interest.
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #90
Hey Comic Bookies, frequent VICE contributor Leslie Stein has a new book of comics out from Fantagraphics, and it's a really good one. Eye of the Majestic Creature Volume 2 continues Leslie’s tradition of telling self-contained stories about a...
'Bartkira' Is the Parodic Bastard Child of the 'Simpsons' and 'Akira'
James Harvey is having the entire 2,000 plus pages of the manga 'Akira' redrawn with 'Simpsons' characters in the place of series’ familiar protagonists. For example, Bart is Kaneda and Milhouse is Tetsuo. I asked James why he was making such a cool...
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...
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...
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #88
Hello. Every week or so I use this column as a space to discuss and review comics, fine art, illustration, and general nerd interest in the e-pages of VICE magazine. This is the second week in a row that my column has been about art shows. Next week we...
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...
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #86
Dear Comicos, My name is Nicholas Gazin, and this is my weekly comics column for VICE in which I share and discuss news pertaining to comics, illustration, fine art, ephemera, and general nerdery.
Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-in #85
Dear Comic Book Aficionados, the yearly MoCCA Fest was held again. Out of a sense of tradition, I attended it. I was not disappointed in my expectations of how much I would be disappointed. Here's a little photo diary of the things I saw that I liked...
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.
Um... Mental Smoking?
Why do you say such dumb stuff on our website? WHY? The only way I can deal with it is by drawing funny little pictures based on them. Here you go, this is my 38th Talkin' 'Bout The Boards column.
Nick Gazin's Best of Fall 2012 Photos
Every three months or so, I pool my best photos and favorite music of the season and present them to you. Here are my best 55 photos from fall 2012, a season full of great and terrible things for me, with a nifty mix CD. Enjoy!