DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Dear Monica is gone, Travis Troublemaker, Philippine head hunters, Aaron Bell on tattoo magazine censorship, tattoo artists make the gallery scene and photographer Jeff Davidson answers the Big 10.

HIPSHOTS
Some nifty images as Maury Englander visits the White Room.

SKIN&INK DOLLS-
With Jeff Davidson
This time, Jeff focuses his lens on lovely DaVonna from San Diego.

READERS' GALLERY
A collection of world-class images from our talented readers.

FEATURES
THE QUEEN OF KNOTS-PAT FISH
By Christina Diaz
A revealing interview with the great Santa Barbara, California tattoo artist, Pat Fish, one of the industry's most colorful and outspoken celebrities.

JAPAN'S TOP FEMALE INKSTER-THE AMAZING HORIREN
by Rik von Boeckel
A female tattooer is a rarity in Japan, and rarer still is the talented Horiren, the globe-trotting phenomenon from Saitama.

DWYER IS BACK-THE FIRST EVER WILD WILD WEST TATTOO EXPO
By Bob Baxter and Photographs by Bernard Clark
Four days of fun in the sun with Tattoo Tour's Dennis Dwyer and his posse of top-gun tattoo artists.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
Mick and Verena search for the last of the fabled lotus ladies-the ones with bound feet-in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, China.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
It's springtime all the time at Derek Dufresne's Fleshworks Tattoo in Victoria, British Colombia.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Matty combs the stacks and lists his ten favorite tattoo books of all time, kind of.

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MR. G
Watch your language in a tattoo shop! Mr. G tells you how.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Chuck talks about lighthouses and lighthouse tattoos.

BAKATY'S WORLD WITH MIKE BAKATY
Mike reflects on seeing his words in print.

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