DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
The King of Pop, vets on super-bikes, Dana meets the plywood man, 1001 Tattoo Facts (the first twenty), the Mad Hatter's returns, Baxter answers the Big 10, Val gets a rant on and Jessica introduces a couple of groovy new books.

HIPSHOTS
Happy Easter, sports fans. It's time again (in November?) for egg rolling and the Macy's parade.

SKIN&INK DOLLS-
With Jeff Davidson
Jessica's granddad was a sailor and hot rod enthusiast. Great tattoo fodder, don't you think?

TAT 2 CROSSWORD
THE FLASH CONTEST
READERS' GALLERY

FEATURES
BRIAN EVERETT—KING OF ROUTE 66
By Samara Alpern
A much respected member of America's tattoo royalty, Brian Everett is a legendary innovator, tattoo ambassador and hard-working family man. Oh yeah, he has a cool, prize-winning '40s Merc.

TATTOO ROAD TRIP—INK ON THE OUTSKIRTS
JOJO ACKERMANN—AMERICAN MADE TATTOO
By Bob Baxter with photographs by Bernard Clark
It's a beautiful day in the desert. Temperature in the seventies, soft breeze blowing and some truly righteous ink. It's not a mirage. It's American Made.

THE ART OF MAGICAL TATTOOS
By Lars Krutak
Five hundred years ago, perhaps one thousand indigenous cultures practiced tattooing. Sadly, only fragments of this once rich heritage of body art remain in our modern world.

FREE TATTOO LEGENDS POSTER
Collage by Mr. G—Triangle Tattoo & Museum, Ft. Bragg, California

COLUMNS
HOW TO DRAW WITH DAVID NESTLER
The master shares some subtle tricks for keeping your lines dark and your shading soft.

TRAVELIN' MICK
Mick visits the sacred lip tattooing ceremony of the Fulani people in Mali, West Africa.

SPOTLIGHT WITH VICKI BOTNICK
The featured artist and old-school advocate is Chad Ramsay from Taylor Street Tattoo in Chicago, Illinois.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Rat-tat-tat, it's all about guns, as Matty talks about the distaff side of barrels and bullets.

OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
All about the bad guys of the waterways. You know, the ones with the eye patches who say, "Arrrrgh."

AROUND THE WORLD WITH SHANGHAI KATE
Kate takes on an old friend that ain't an old friend anymore, a man with the initials Don Ed Hardy.

CONTRIBUTORS
Contributing Writers
Samara Alpern, Bob Baxter, Vicki Botnick, Dana Brunson, Wendy Dager, C.W. Eldridge, Maury Englander, Mary Gardner, Kate Hellenbrand, Jessica Ilalaole, Matty Jankowski, Lars Krutak, Michael Laukien, David Nestler and Val Rivera
Photographers
Samara Alpern, Dana Brunson, Bernard Clark, Wendy Dager, Jeff Davidson, Maury Englander, Kate Hellenbrand, Lars Krutak, Jessica Ilalaole, Matty Jankowski and Michael Laukien
Illustrators
Mr. G, David Nestler and The Pizz