DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
What's New is new, Tulsa's Electric Eye, the boys of Beijing, Wales' first Tattoo Jam, Dana remembers Paul Rogers, Dan Ballard's heartfelt idea, Larry Brogan answers the Big 10 and Val keeps spoonin' out the sugar.

HIPSHOTS
Photog Maury Englander visits the yearly San Gennaro festival in Manhattan's Little Italy.

SKIN&INK DOLLS-
With Jeff Davidson
Christine is studying to be a nurse, and she's oh so ready for more ink.

THE FLASH CONTEST
Results of the first monthly competition.

CONVENTION CALENDAR
READERS' GALLERY
The postman bringeth and we posteth some truly heavenly artwork.

FEATURES
GREEN BAY CONVENTION IN THE WORKS
By Bob Baxter with Photographs by Bernard Clark

TACOS AND TATS ON ROOSEVELT AVE.
By Maury Englander
Take a subway to another country called Queens, get off at Roosevelt Avenue and watch out for Sante Muerte, the Saint of Death,

REMEMBERING PROF. CLEMENT DEMERS SR.
By C.W. Eldridge
A bilingual look at the third-generation Demers family that settled in Montreal and established a new standard for Canadian tattooing.

16-PAGE OUTSERT—HOT FLASH
By Darcy Nutt
A sizzling collection of premier flash from some of the country's most formidable artists.

COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
The fabulous tricked-out traveling trunks, a tattoo artist's studio on the road.

TRAVELIN' MICK
Mick crosses a precarious bridge to visit the vanishing tattoo culture of the Mang of Vietnam.

SPOTLIGHT WITH VICKI BOTNICK
This month it's Robert Frazier from Earth's Edge in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Just about everything you want to know about wings.

TATTOO 101 WITH MR. G
It's cold outside, but G got warm in the family woodshed.

BAKATY'S WORLD WITH MIKE BAKATY
Recollections from the memory banks and onto the page from our gifted New Yorker.

HOW TO DRAW WITH DAVID NESTLER
Lesson number one. The master illustrator shares his secrets and gets you started.

CONTRIBUTORS
Contributing Writers
Mike Bakaty, Bob Baxter, Rik van Boeckel, Vicki Botnick, Dana Brunson, C.W. Eldridge, Maury Englander, Mr. G, Mary Gardner, Jessica Ilalaole, Matty Jankowski, Michael Laukien, Mike McCabe, David Nestler, Darcy Nutt, Val Rivera, Bobby Lynn Shehorn and Rob Webster
Photographers
Dana Brunson, Bernard Clark, Tim Coleman, Jeff Davidson, Maury Englander, Mr. G, Jessica Ilalaole, Matty Jankowski, Michael Laukien, Mike McCabe, Bobby Lynn Shehorn and Rob Webster
Illustrators
The Pizz and David Nestler

Plastic Wrap
FREE: 16 PAGE FLASH COLLECTION
NEW: HOW TO DRAW WITH DAVID NESTLER
NEW: MONTHLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE