DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Travelin' Mick talks to Englishman Luke Atkinson, Sage's show in sunny Arizona, Angelique Gibbons, the niece of Artoria Gibbons (the illustrated human canvas with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey sideshows), Aaron Bell talks about traveling light, and Jojo Ackerman answers the Big 10.

HIPSHOTS
It's always good to check out photos from Maury Englander's yearly trek to the Mad Hatter's Iced Tea Party.

SUICIDE GIRLS
Sending us her bio and photos so she won't have to keep retelling her life story, Stasia is into B&B. That's Buddhism and Bjork, by the way.

READERS' GALLERY
Always on the prowl for world-class artists, here's some spicy samples from this month's mailbox.

FEATURES
MOKO AND MAORI ART COMES TO AMERICA
By Tim Coleman
A look back at the largest collection of Maori art and culture ever shown in America at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

THE NATIONALS-FOUR GREAT DAYS IN CINCINNATI
By Bob Baxter and photos by Bernard Clark
Flo and Don Makofske welcome the most talented and dedicated artists in the world for a four-day weekend of seminars, contests and food, food, food.

PRISON TATTOOS-PURPOSE OR PAIN?
By LORIAN TAMARA ELBERT
A rare look inside the U.S. and Canadian prison systems, including highly debated, job-related release programs to teach inmates how to tattoo.

BOBBY SHAW-A SECOND GENERATION OF GREATNESS By Bobby Lynn Shehorn
A detailed rundown of the life and times of the Shaw family, who did what to whom and Bert Grimm's shop on the Pike in Long Beach.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
A visit to the Dai people of China to view the sak-muk, the extensive tattoos on the upper bodies of the Dai men.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Legendary machine maker and a good friend to the tattoo community, Danny Dringenberg talks about integrity and craftsmanship.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
A reverential look-see into the mystical world of mandalas.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MADAME LAZONGA
Some rare and helpful insights on tattooing the human skin, the art world's most overlooked canvas.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Remember the cowgirl design created by George Petty, the famed pinup illustrator of the 1940s and '50s? Titled "Betty Petty," she first appeared in 1939 in an Old Gold Cigarette ad.

EAST COAST INK WITH ERIK DESMOND
Erik talks about the proliferation of tattoo shops and the owners who don't even tattoo.