Ex-graffiti artist Heidi Elise Wirz combines a punk rock aesthetic and a talent for dumpster diving to give us a look into the dark imagery of childhood.

Ever have the dream of writing a letter to one of your favorite musicians and having them write back to you? How about writing them a letter, asking them if they’d like for you to make them posters? And then step it up a notch — ever dream of them getting back in touch and offering you a full time job? Probably not, because it sounds awfully far fetched. And certainly not if you’re talking about a band as big as Pearl Jam. But in 1999, a young Brad Klausen — fresh out of school for graphic design — offered his services as an artist, and they offered him a job.

Shooting from unconventional angles and using long exposures (up to 30 seconds), photographer Mike Lindwasser creates vibrant, almost un-earthy color tones in his images.

Don’t let that Volkswagen parked in front of the Christopher Henry gallery in New York City fool you. Yes, it’s covered in colorful crochet from hood to bumper. Yes, it’s meant to entice you to check out the rest of the exhibit by Olek, a Polish artist with a penchant for yarn bombing just about anything that’s stationary. But this is not your granny’s crochet.

Skinny Gaviar is a talented graphic artist. That much is clear. But first and foremost, Skinny considers killing to be his art, and to that end he has murdered hordes of homeless, often using their dismembered bodies as models for his twisted Photoshop creations.

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One Model Nation, by C. Allbritton Taylor and Donovan Leitch, is an entirely different animal. The graphic novel is a work of historical fiction that follows a group of musicians living in one of the most intriguing hotbeds of musical innovation in the past century: late 1970s Germany.

Bonnie Wood is a rogue taxidermist from Norwich, England. Traditional taxidermy focuses on making deceased animals appear as lifelike and realistic as possible. Rogue taxidermists tend to take artistic license in the reassembly and posing of the stuffed animals.

Originally published in Verbicide issue #24 It started as a project to document the abandoned symbols of our failed American infrastructure; steel mills and power [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #22 Kevin O’Rourke is part of a new generation of Motor City artists. This low-key powerhouse fuses elements of graphic [...]

Don’t cast Melinda Gebbie as one of the wayward characters depicted in The Lost Girls, the three-volume, 30-chapter masterpiece of erotic fiction she illustrated and coauthored with long-time love Alan Moore. Sure, she’s had her fair share of weird exploits and random affairs — she was making feminist comics in 1973 in San Francisco, tuning in and dropping out.

Surrounded by enormous klieg lights, the pint-sized artist and illustrator holds court discussing the release of her first book, Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book, a romp through the whimsical world of cabaret life drawing courtesy of her bimonthly Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School sketching salon.

Originally published in Verbicide issue #18 I have not, since my first peek of John Webster or Poe in early high school, had a taste [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #16 Combining elements of fashion and art by the use of reversible clothing and artwork, the still5 design team’s dynamic [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #15 I was confused. This usually doesn’t happen to me, but I was, admittedly, profoundly confused. As an art history [...]