DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Inked in Brooklyn, bikes and ink at Thunder Beach, Mike Bellamy assaults The Big Seven, Val Rivera dishes the dirt, Dana remembers Big Ben Corday and Baba answers the Big 10.

HIPSHOTS
Canada's Anam Stubbington shares more groovy scrapbook tattoos.

SKIN&INK DOLLS
With Jeff Davidson
Ash, an artist herself, loves tattoo images that reflect her life and dreams.

READERS' GALLERY
The tattoo art these days just keeps getting better and better.

FEATURES
AMERICA'S TOP 13 WOMEN TATTOOISTS
By Tim Coleman
Tattooing is not just a game for men anymore. Here's a baker's dozen of the most talented, most important female tattoo artists of today.

TAR HEEL TATS BY RODNEY RAINES
By Bob Baxter, Photos by Bernard Clark
A road trip to Ace Tattoo, where Rodney reigns in Charlotte, North Carolina.

LARRY SHAW: CARRYING ON THE FAMILY TRADITION
By Bobby Lynn Shehorn
Houston's Larry Shaw is a walking, talking family album of the great Shaw family and tattoo art in the U.S.

LONDON 2007 TATTOO CONVENTION
by Richard Todd
Ace photog Richard Todd hops a plane and visits the tattoo festivities at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.

COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Who would have guessed? Legendary tattoo artist Doc Webb was a behind-the-scenes shutterbug.

TRAVELIN' MICK
Thai master Acharn Nu tattoos a movie star with the initials A.J. Hint: she's married to Brad Pitt.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
From actor to tattoo artist, Craig Driscoll once starred on Degrassi Junior High. Now, there's a career leap, if we've ever heard one.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Hello. We'd like you to meet Miss Djo from Miami Ink.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MR. G
The G-man reminds us to chill out on the Tattoo Highway.

BAKATY'S WORLD WITH MIKE BAKATY
Mike looks for and finds a very helpful tattoo legend named Paul.