Hellen Jo (one of today’s featured artists) is a great artist who lives in San Francisco and draw comics (and stuff) that primarily revolve around two themes: girls and fighting. We can’t really think of a better combination as a source of artists inspiration. Hellen also does the comic series Jin & Jam and made some video game one time. Anyway, we sent her some questions via carrier pigeon and she emailed her answers back, saying, “Why did you send the questions strapped to a bird?”

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One of today’s featured artist is the lovely Lisa Hanawalt. Most of her wonderfully detailed illustrations and paintings center around anthropomorphic animals engaged in activities like trying on shoes and engaging in fisticuffs. Apparently she also used to be a child model, which is neither here nor there but we feel like telling you about it anyway. We asked her to answer a few questions about various topics, and she said “sure” like the nice lady she is. Keep reading to get the scoop on Hanawalt.
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You would think it’s WTWTA Week or something over at VBS.tv, and that’s because it is. We’ve already directed you to Spike’s Saturday haircut session with VICE co-founder Shane Smith, our Art Talks with creature designer Sonny Gerasimowicz and production designer KK Barrett, and today we have yet another Art Talk with editor Eric Zumbrunnen. Enjoy.

The indubitable Matthew Thurber was one of yesterday’s featured artists, and there’s no better excuse for us to badger him into answering a few questions about his existence so that’s exactly what we did. But first some background: Besides being the man behind 1-800-Mice and one-offs like Hong Kong Bong, he used to play saxophone for an instrumental band we like very much called Soiled Mattress and the Springs. Sadly, they are no more; however we urge you to check out this mind-churner of a video for “Hong Kong Bong” (yes it’s the name of a song, too). Nowadays Matthew’s musical endeavors revolve around his solo project Ambergris, which takes its namesake from the intestinal lining of a whale. That’s all we’ll say for now, but if you want to know more about Mr. Thurber head to his site.

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Today VBS.tv has an exclusive interview with Spike Jonze (well, it’s sort of an interview) that culminates in Shane Smith getting a haircut. And, just in case you missed it, Shane also conducted an interview with Spike for Vice’s Film Issue.

Nicholas Gazin, today’s featured artist, is a furry, funny little man who lives in an inverted rainbow that shines above a toxic landfill full of Star Wars action figures. He also curates Vice’s Sunday comics, draws a lot of crap for us, and interviews famous people like Terry Gilliam. You can see a fine cross-section of his work here and watch his Creepy Touch show over at the Mishka bloglin. We asked him some questions about his curious existence and he answered accordingly. Keep reading to see his responses.

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be dipping our fingers into our featured artists’ brains to see what kind of lunacy is going on in their heads on a day-to-day basis. First up is today’s featured artist Benjamin Marra. We asked him a few questions–both WTWTA-related and completely irrelevant. Keep reading to worm your way inside the cranium of a guy who would rather spend a month in prison than eat turnips for the rest of his life (OK, that comparison is conditional, but you’ll have to find out what those conditions are by clicking below). (more…)

While we cannot reveal his artistic contribution to our little WTWTA love fest quite yet, our sister site We Love You So chatted with Jordan Crane about all things Wild and his new comic series Uptight. You can read it here.