.CONTENTS - MARCH 2004
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Everybody's got an opinion.
DEPARTMENTS
BITS & SNATCHES
Clayton Patterson says good-bye to two old friends, Charles reviews Written on the Body, Teresa Green's Tattoo Encyclopedia,
Lettering 101, Suzanne visits Darwin down under, what shamrocks and wheels with wings mean, Vanishing Tattoo's Vince Hemingson answers the Big 10 and Tennessee Dave remembers some remarkably quirky artists.
HIPSHOTS
What are the odds? Ronan Spelman recreates the Hefner shot at Hustler Hollywood in a magazine published by Magna.
TATTOO ARTISTS AND THEIR RIDES
Check out the Checker with Luke Atkinson in Stuttgart, Germany.
READERS' GALLERY
The world's top tattoo artists show off their best and latest work.
FEATURES
THE TATTOO SCENE IN MODERN-DAY JAPAN by Mike McCab
A comprehensive look at the current traditional and one-point
tattoo artists leading the current upsurge of popularity and acceptance of body art in modern-day Japan.
FIRST TIME AT THE FAIRPLEX―L.A. BODY ART EXPO 2003
with Bob Baxter and Ronan Spelman
It's hard to criticize success when the Mega team attracts record-breaking numbers to its first-ever event.
COLUMNS
OUR LIVING HISTORY WITH C.W. ELDRIDGE
Long before the elaborate body suits worn by the Yakuza, there were symbolic,
hand-poked tattoos of the aboriginal Ainu people.
TRAVELIN' MICK
Our own single-minded ink detective checks out the tattoo scene in two-faced Singapore.
SPOTLIGHT WITH DANIELLE
This time, it's off to Reno, Nevada, home to Garrett Casse of Pirate Tattoo.
Q&A WITH MATTY JANKOWSKI
How about test-driving your next tattoo? Matty tells us how.