DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Gatewood interviews sex workers, Jodi Head has tattooed hands and a successful business, inside our 2006 calendar girl shoot, a bio of Uncle Allan from the editor of Nordic Tattoo Life, Brian Everett answers the Big 10, Tennessee Dave remembers Big John and Baba talks about missed opportunities.

HIPSHOTS
It's pinup time with Charles Gatewood.

SKIN & INK DOLLS
Lovely Kristen Judge is this month's Doll. She's also featured in our very first calendar, along with photos by Charles Gatewood, Ronan Spelman and Bernard Clark.

READERS' GALLERY
The best in the world fill the elite pages of our photo gallery.

FEATURES
KEEPIN' AWAY THE SNAKES—
MYSTICAL BURMESE CHARM TATTOOS
By Amy Gold
Worldwide, there are 10,000 annual deaths from snakebites. One thousand of those are in Burma. Whoa! Time to get inoculated, tattoo-style.

ONCE WE WERE OUTLAWS—
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY
TATTOO CONVENTION
By Charles Gatewood
A no-holds-barred visit to his old stompin' grounds with SKIN & INK's naughty camera genius, the irrepressible Charles Gatewood and his trying-to-be-topless companion, NetMichelle.

4 HOT SHOPS IN MEXICO CITY
By Jason Sweet
Hola, amigos! Tattoo artist Jason Sweet makes new friends at four very clean shops in the second most-crowded city on the planet.

LARRY BROGAN DOES IT ALL!
Lockport, Illinois may be small, but not in the talent department. Local boy Larry Brogan has big-city talent and the skill to do all the styles, from photorealism to black-and-gray and color.

COLUMNS
TRAVELIN' MICK
Our globe-hopping reporter has the surprise of his life in a marketplace in remote Ethiopia.

SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
We struck gold when we discovered Jim Miner, a very promising talent from the wilds of the O.C.

Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Tired of the same old, same old? How about tattooed runes, the ancient alphabet of the mystics?

TATTOO ART 101 WITH MADAME LAZONGA
Vyvyn talks about a very big bugaboo: running a business ethically. It sure ain't easy but it's right!

SPECIAL 2005 CALENDAR!
A collection of tattooed lovelies designed to grace your wall for the next 12 months.