SKIN & INK CONTENTS
.CONTENTS - JANUARY 2003
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Gatewood finds trouble, waltzing down memory lane with Ove
Skög, Clayton reviews Spider Webb's Pushing Ink, Sunny Buick at the first-ever All American Tattoo Fest, the audacious Lucky Diamond Rich, a Ph.D. tells us What Tattoos Mean, Tennessee Dave remembers Jersey Ernie,
Michigan's Tramp Welker answers the Big 10 and a sad farewell to Marc Rude.
HIPSHOTS
Tim Coleman pulls out a few almost-forgotten photos from his past Skin & Ink features.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Tom Michael's 1985 Monte Carlo screeches to a stop in front of Creative Skin
Tattoo in Glendale, Arizona.
READERS' GALLERY
As usual, we spread 1,000 or so photo submissions on the tabletop, and without even thinking
for a moment about the $20 bills taped to the back of some of them, plucked out the most eye-catching ones for you to see.
FEATURES
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE—CLIFF RAVEN
Just a short time before his timely passing, one of America's greatest, most influential tattooists, Cliff Raven sat down with our C.W. Eldridge, just to set the record straight.
POWERFUL MAGIC OF THE THAI TATTOO by Michael Laukien
You may know him as Travelin' Mick, but we know him as
Super Pilgrim, the writer/photographer who, once again, takes us where no tattoo reporter has gone before—the magical tattoo ceremony at Wat Bang Phra.
THE CONTROVERSIAL QUEEN OF CELT by Danielle Oberosler
The unvarnished lowdown on the tattoo artist other
artists love to hate, the brilliant Pat Fish.
5TH ANNUAL NEW YORK CITY TATTOO CONVENTION with Baxter and Clark
Did you hear the rumor that
Osama bin Laden closed down New York City and turned out the lights? Fugetaboudit!
COLUMNS
DIGGIN' THE DIRT WITH HOLLY
Little Miss Know It All talks about turning browsers into customers.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
An exciting new talent emerges from the hysterical, I mean, historical center of our nation's stormy history, Richmond, Virginia.
TRAVELIN' MICK
They've been talking up a Borneo tattoo convention for a couple years now. But according to Travelin' Mick, it was nothing to lose your head over!
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
Matty answers a letter from a reader with plenty of room on his back for a Japanese-style tattoo..