MARKY SPENSE

  • Easy Money

    "I don't know what all the fuss is about," says Cleveland artist Anthony F Yankovic III, "I couldn't imagine anything being easier. You just draw pictures, lay them out and people pay you." Yankovic graduated from art school only a year ago and now has...

  • Die Goof!

    The last time I spoke to David Pajo (AKA Papa M) he had no teeth. It wasn't because he had just gotten in a fight. It was because he had gotten into a fight fifteen years before and the crowns had finally rotted off. "I used to be a bit out of control...

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    When you see the intricacy of Dave Cooper's drawings the first thing that comes to your mind is "kew-el."

  • Dream Weaver

    VICE: When did your studio burn down?Min Kim: Last March. I had been having a lot of fire dreams right before that and they were influencing my work.

  • Astro Boys Unite

    "Takashi Murakami is an old man," says painter Tim Evans of the only animé painter/sculptor anyone has ever heard of. "There are so many of us all over the States and Japan that grew up with Astro Boy and have been working with images like these, but...