SKIN & INK CONTENTS
MARCH 2000 — CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Spider Webb brings back memories on Coney Island, the tattoo show in T.J., saying goodbye to Wayne Borucki, Upland's main man, Pat Fish lays down the law and a couple more conventions, one good, one godawful.
HIPSHOTS
Bernard Clark is just amazing. Here are some outtakes from last month's Centerspread.
TALKBACK
London's Alex Binnie tells us what he really thinks.
READERS' GALLERY
The best of the photos submitted by our talented readers.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Mike Liquori from Flesh & Blood Tattoos shows off his mean green machine.
FEATURES
THE FIRST-EVER TOKYO CONVENTION by Bob Baxter
Everyone with a yen for first-class tattooing was there at Permanent Mark's sold out show of shows!
A HISTORY OF JAPAN'S TATTOO CONVENTIONS by Henk Schiffmacher
Hanky Panky gives the historical background leading up to Tattoo Tokyo 1999.
ENGLISH TATTOO CLUBS by Paul Sayce
Britain's tattoo scene has a long, healthy tradition of organized education, historical archiving and a room-temperature pint or two.
THE RON ACKERS INTERVIEW with R.J. Musolf
After the recent release of his biography, the living legend sets the record straight.
CENTERSPREAD—NEW YORK CITY FIREMEN
By Maury Englander
An inside, smoke-filled look at the Big Apple's fearless firefighters.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Tattoo's unlikely hero—Commodore Perry—and his smoke-belching gunboats.
ASK ZEKE, WITH ZEKE OWEN
Hurricane Floyd isn't going to put Zeke out of business. No sirree. He's the latest from North Carolina's favorite tattoo artist.
TATTOO SCIENCE WITH DANNY FOWLER
Spring is here. Not the season, Bubba. We're talking about the little, curly metal thing that causes tension.
ED HARDY'S COLUMN
The "father of San Francisco tattooing" reflects on the myth of the Japanese dragon.
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
Molly's mom takes on the tattoo mystique and shares a bunch of important dates, places and Web sites.