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Melbourne artist Meggs has been featured in the latest issue of VNA magazine. With contemporary pop and street art awash in flaky comic and cartoon motifs Meggs stands out as an artist of substance.

Pop art has always been commercial, but today sometimes it just feels like a cynical cash grab, as though all it takes to become an uber-trendy rockstar artist or designer is to monotonously regurgitate fuzzy childhood nostalgia for the masses. Who needs to challenge the perceptions of their audience or the boundaries of one's own expressive ability? Just keep doodling the same cloyingly inane pop-culture signifiers over and over and watch the coin come in.

Meggs, on the other hand, is truly an artist. Although his works feature iconic comicbook heroes and villains, these characters merely form the backdrop for his artistic endeavor. Despite their prominence, Meggs is not merely rendering these familiar forms. He is intent on ruthlessly disrupting them, and thereby skewing comic mythology into darker, uncharted territory. It is in his vivid, visceral lashings of paint that the intangible lies. And the best art always comes from these unbridled, unpredictable excursions.

The new edition of VNA is available here.