CONTENTS — September 2002
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Grimm and Tuttle work together in '76, tattoos in the E.R., the Baltimore Tattoo Museum,
Seattle and Portland host book signings, Suits to Fit, flash from a Canadian collector, Chinchilla and Mr. G. answer the Big 10 and Tennessee Dave remembers Captain Jim, Sailor Bill and Ernie Sutton.
HIPSHOTS
Gatewood is America's #1 fetish photographer, and it's tattooed feet this time.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Feisty tattoo gals show off their '60 Buick mountain goat from altitudinous
Asheville, North Carolina.
READERS' GALLERY
Last week we looked at a tattoo photo and said, "Hey, look, somebody's ripping off
Filip Leu." We turned over the photo—it was from Flip Leu! So, hotshot, you try sorting through all these photos.
FEATURES
MOTOR CITY TATTOO EXPO with Bob Baxter and Bernard Clark
Baxter complains, while Clark photographs another great show in colder-than-a-witch's-nipple-ring Detroit.
MARY JANE HAAKE—PAVING THE WAY FOR WOMEN TATTOOERS with Charles Gatewood
An amazing interview with the grande
dame of modern tattooing, the incomparable Bert Grimm's last apprentice, the equally incomparable (a much better-looking) Mary Jane Haake.
ALEX BINNIE by Tim Coleman
An intimate look at the innovative, outspoken genius from London, the
unforgettable Alex Binnie.
TRADITIONAL TATTOOING IN NEPAL by John Monroe
Cool words and pictures of rarely seen body-art customs in the
shadow of the Himalayas.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
He was born Dominick Anthony Cianci, but in N.Y.C. they called him Chance.
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
Our beloved momma just had a bouncing baby boy, Aeden, so, c'mon, give her some
time off!
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
Our pal, Los Angeles artist and world traveler Robert Atkinson takes center stage.
TRAVELIN' MICK
Our tireless wordmeister reports from Frank Weber's highly successful 11th Annual Tattoo
Convention in beautiful Berlin.
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Our East Coast answer man digs into his sea chest to answer a letter about
mermaids, mermen and various assorted merfolk.