CONTENTS — November 2002
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Patty Kelley at the Hustler Store grand opening, a rediscovered Haida tattoo kit from the Queen Charlotte Islands, our Art Director searches Paris for Tin-Tin, Maury Englander
remembers 9/11 with New York's Finest, Bill Funk answers the Big 10, Doc Forest memorabilia, and Tennessse Dave remembers Captain Jim and Ernie Sutton.
HIPSHOTS
It's erotic images time, as Oregon's Skip Williams graces our pages
with some of his favorite eye-teasing models.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
This time the barn burner is a custom '77 Ford
van from Kool Tattoo in Warren, Michigan.
READERS' GALLERY
Once again, the readers come through with some of the best
tattoo art published anywhere.
FEATURES
TATTOOED STRIPPERS
by Tim Coleman with photos by Charles Gatewood
The article we've been waiting for, and our crack investigative team is there for a report that bares it all.
GRAFFITI—GATEWAY TO TATTOOING by Suzanne Lamb
The top taggers deliver the lowdown on their lifestyle, their
inspirations and how they outran the police and became tattoo artists.
GRIME—THE INSPIRING LIFE OF A RISING STAR
by Bob Baxter
The life and times of one of modern tattooing's
definite good guys, the artist called Grime.
THE RETURN OF TATTOO TOUR
with Bob Baxter and Bernard Clark
Crowe and Dwyer welcome 100 booths of talent
to a snowy weekend in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Our resident
historian delivers the skinny on tattooed pinup girls and nudie cuties.
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
Do tattooed women get treated differently than tattooed men? Holly gets some
answers.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Our lady reporter travels all the way to Chicago to find out how to spell Ben Wahhh's
last name.
TRAVELIN' MICK
A chilling visit to the tattoo turf of the rough and tumble gangs in Cape Town, South Africa.
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
A reader sees what he thinks is a framed hunk of skin on the wall of a tattoo
shop and writes Matty for help.