SKIN & INK CONTENTS - SEPTEMBER 2001
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
A talented tattooer/writer from beautiful Canada tells
us about life in the wilderness, Tennessee Dave remembers Sailor Ted, Madd Maxx patrols the Madhatter's parking lot, a couple of book reports, Jill Jordan answers the Big 10 and yet another visit to the rain-soaked Tattoos
& Blues.
LITZ'S SKETCHBOOK
A visual book review of John O. Morton's self-published glory-days autobiography of a tattooed
pin-striper.
HIPSHOTS
Some magic moments from the photo file of New York's Maury Englander.
TALKBACK
"No two ways about it, tattoo lettering is bad!" says alphabet maven Barry Kintner.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Four-wheeled fury from
Mats Anderson, the owner of Red Dragon Tattoo in Umeå, Sweden.
READERS' GALLERY
Our special corner of the magazine featuring the best of all the readers' tattoo photos that
come in the mail every day, rain or shine.
TEN BIG QUESTIONS—
From the land where legends are made, Los Angeles, Jill Jordan (a legend in her own right)
takes a star turn in response to the Big 10.
FEATURES
A CHAT WITH PINKY YUN with Horitaka and C.W. Eldridge
Two of tattoos leading historians kick it around with the Treasure of Alameda, Pinky Yun.
TATTOOED BELLY DANCERS: IN SEARCH OF A CONNECTION
Words and photos by Tim Coleman
Tattooed belly dancers. Now, if that doesn't sizzle your shish kebob, nothing will. Tim Coleman takes us into smoke-filled harems rife with forbidden delights.
MIKE WILSON INTERVIEW with Bob Baxter
Mike Wilson talks about the hard times and how he ended up sinking some pretty prodigious ink at Inksmith & Rogers.
The 6TH ANNUAL MOTOR CITY TATTOO EXPO with Bob Baxter and Bernard Clark
We return to the party-hearty ink fests of yesteryear as Tramp and Everett's landmark event becomes the show to beat.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Looking back at the masters of tattoo lettering.
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
So you didn't want to hear the warnings, eh? Maybe Holly can get you to pull your
head out of the sand.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
We're off to beautiful Santa Rosa, California, where the spotlight falls on Joe Leonard
from Monkey Wrench Tattoo.
TRAVELIN' MICK
Slowly, ever so slowly, our collector with a camera covers the globe as artfully as he covers his
body with indigenous ink. This time it's mystical Thailand.
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
All you ever wanted to know about lettering and didn't have the huevos rancheros to ask..