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Gavin McInnes
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Gavin McInnes

Gavin McInnes is a prankster, provocateur, and creator of contemporary, alternative pop culture. After ten issues of his award-winning comic Pervert and several years of singing in punk bands, Gavin created a small punk/skate ‘zine called, which became the multi-media conglomerate known as Vice. He wrote most of the articles in Vice for thirteen years and also penned their greatest hits book The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll, as well as other Vice compilations, and most recently an esteemed volume titled Street Boners, based on his website streetcarnage.com. He is also currently developing several different television shows. Referred to as "The... Read full bio

Biography
Gavin McInnes is a prankster, provocateur, and creator of contemporary, alternative pop culture. After ten issues of his award-winning comic Pervert and several years of singing in punk bands, Gavin created a small punk/skate ‘zine called, which became the multi-media conglomerate known as Vice. He wrote most of the articles in Vice for thirteen years and also penned their greatest hits book The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll, as well as other Vice compilations, and most recently an esteemed volume titled Street Boners, based on his website streetcarnage.com. He is also currently developing several different television shows. Referred to as "The Godfather of hipsterdom" and "the primary architect of hipsterdom," McInnes is often credited with starting the Hipster movement mostly via Vice magazine’s “DOs & DON’Ts” column.