DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Our Lady appears through a kitchen window, Tennessee Dave remembers Baby Huey, Twwly is our very first tattooed Suicide Girl, Bill Salmon answers the Big 10, Marco Bratt is one of Europe's finest and has a Sketchbook for sale, Lars Krutak visits the oldest tattoo shop in Greece and Baba tells us where he gets his information.

HIPSHOTS
The Editor shares some delicious outtakes from his private collection.

READERS' GALLERY
It isn't easy choosing the best from the world's top tattoo artists, but we gave it a try.

FEATURES
A WEEKEND WITH THE QUEEN—THE SECOND ANNUAL LONG BEACH TATTOO CONVENTION
By Bruce Litz and Photos by Dianne Mansfield
Three wonderful days aboard ship at one of the current splash of tattoo events with the creator of Capt. Eddie.

THE TATTOO SHOPS, CHINESE FOOD AND
HOOKERS OF KATENDRECHT
By Rik van Boeckel
A delightful look back in time to the shocking early days of the tattoo trade in Rotterdam Harbor.

SACRED SKIN-TATTOO INK AND YOGA
By Tim Coleman
An intriguing analysis of the life-changing connection between tattoo body art and spirituality.

VIVA LA BLACK & GRAY!-BIG GUS MAKES HIS MARK
L.A.'s single-needle tattoo art has worldwide respect, and no one is mightier than Big Gus from Sepulveda Boulevard.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
This time, Mick travels up the Rejang to visit the Orang Ulu in the interior of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Danielle met Geneva, Switzerland's Christian Nguyen on shipboard (actually, the tethered-to-the-dock Queen Mary in Long Beach). She loved his art and so do we.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Matty unties the knot of confusion about everything Celt, from basketball teams to armbands.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MADAME LAZONGA
Vyvyn looks back on old friends, the Mission District and the ground-breaking life of a female tattoo artist in 1980s San Francisco.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Religious tattoos have been around since the time of, you guessed it, the Naz Himself, and Chuck gives the details.