Employees of the Month

EVIE CAHIR

While you are sleeping, 21-year-old freelance illustrator Evie Cahir is drawing everything. Crotches, backs of heads, and fabric folds are all subjects/objects that serve as her inspiration, as does the work of Claes Oldenburg, Stine Sampers, Miso, Hannah Höch, Aidan Koch, Girl Mountain, Jacob Ring, and Sam Alden. When she's not drawing, she's looking at other people's drawings, rolling pretzels, or eating food from trash bins. The other week we were like, "Hey, Evie, do you want to draw some drawings for us for money?" She was like, "Sure, I do a lot of drawing!" It was that easy. She is available for hire, collaborations, and commissions. If you want to find her, use the internet.

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JOHN L. MITCHELL AND JACK CHANG

John L. Mitchell spent nearly 30 years at the Los Angeles Times, during which time he was a member of the news staff that won a Pulitzer Prize and a Polk Award for covering the 1992 LA riots. After he left the Times, John moved to Mexico City, where he met Jack Chang, a Californian who works for the Associated Press and used to run Knight Ridder's South American bureau. In May they were hanging out at a cantina in the capital's Coyoacan neighborhood when they decided to investigate the wayward life and tragic death of Malcolm X's grandson Malcolm Shabazz. They spent five months exhaustively reporting the story, and we're very excited to give it a home in this issue.

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ADAM WILSON

Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen and the forthcoming short-story collection What's Important Is Feeling. We asked him if he remembered the first time he wrote a story that he liked. "Freshman year of college," he said. "In retrospect it wasn't that good, but I had just started reading Raymond Carver, and was in love with short sentences, and stories about sad men living lives of quiet desperation, and I felt pretty good when I wrote something in that vein. I didn't write anything I was happy with for years after that." He won the Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor in 2012. For this issue, he gave us his story "Some Nights We Tase Each Other."

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JACKSON FAGER

Jackson Fager's the kind of guy who says "I love you" and means it. It's a little weird when he says it to his male colleagues, but it's still nice to hear those three little words, know what we mean? He's a fantastic photographer and videographer who started his career shooting the news for CBS in New Orleans, which means he has no problem pointing his camera in the faces of grieving parents and angry crocodiles. In his time at VICE, he's shot photos and videos of burn victims in Bulgaria, child miners in Bolivia, and, for this issue, exploited warehouse workers in the US. He once got hammered and told his wife he was going to "pile-drive her" (in a good way), but instead fell asleep with his dick in his hand. We love you, too, Jackson.

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JILL BETH HANNES

Jill Beth Hannes grew up in Hawaii, and by the fourth grade, she was photographing everything she saw. She hasn't put down the camera since, though she's moved east to New York and back west to San Francisco in the intervening years. Now she mostly photographs scenes she re-creates from her dreams, which are normally extremely vivid nightmares. She likes cats, Diet Dr Pepper, horror movies, nice pens, and Christmas-tree-scented candles. She dislikes sweaty feet, the smell of popcorn, and long nails. For this issue she did a fashion shoot/photo album that looks back at the beginnings of a family that never existed.

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