Tattooing A to Z #32: Mike Malone
Mike Malone led one of those lives that you read about in books. Mike was born in California and after high school he studied ceramics, learned carpentry, became a licensed…
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Leonardo da Vinci: celebrations & tattoos to mark the 500th anniversary
A simultaneous exhibition in various locations in Great Britain and four delicate works on show in New York. 2019 is the year of the Tuscan genius. And that means in…
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Kiss: the hottest tattoos in the world!
It seems that the new world tour by Kiss will be their last ever. If the NYC group runs out, their tattoos probably not… The next Kiss world tour –…
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Tattooing A to Z #31: Sutherland Macdonald
Sutherland Macdonald was considered by many to be one of the greatest artists in the history of tattooing. It is said that his first exposure to tattooing was in the…
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Diego Delfino: Women from the Victorian Age
38-year-old Milano-hailing architect and painter Diego Delfino effortlessly balances a longing lens for all things romantic and historic with a sharp sense for minimalism, simplicity and contemporary design to create…
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Happy 90th Birthday Popeye!
It was on January 17, 1929 when Popeye first appeared in the Thimble Theater comic, a strip that had been published in the newspaper “The New York Evening Journal”, since…
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Iron Man Tattoo and the second lease on life
Even though a fourth movie episode may never see the light of day, we are still wondering about the reason for the Tony Stark outrageous success… Iron Man (real name…
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Frank Sinatra Tattoos and his final comeback
Thanks to the release of the two ‘Duets’ albums, Ol’ Blue Eyes hit the charts one last time. Now he’s a legend who continues to be celebrated in tons of…
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Ozzy Osbourne Tattoos and his long exile from Sabbath
It was in autumn 1978, almost 40 years ago, that ‘Never Say Die!’ came out. It was the last classic Black Sabbath album for many years. This is the story……
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Tattooing A to Z #29: Jock Liddell “Tattoo Jock”
Jock Liddel, better known as “Tattoo Jock”, first began tattooing in his native Scotland at a time when there were only a couple of tattoo artists working there – with…
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Freddie Mercury tattoos and all you need to know about the film ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
The movie about the rise to fame of Queen in the annals of rock is actually a film about family. Brian May says, “Malek inhabits Freddie”. Will there be a…
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Tattooing A to Z #28: Felix Leu “Don Feliz”
In 1978 Felix Leu started his tattooing career at “Jocks Tattoo Studio” in Kings Cross, London, England. Felix went on to recall that it was after a chance meeting with…
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Leonardo DiCaprio: a legend in tattoo, the Osage and the Manson family
The Californian actor will be starring in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, but also appear in the new film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The news came out a…
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Elizabeth Bathory Tattoos: reign in blood
The “Bloody Countess” was responsible for a hundreds of awful crimes in Hungary at the turn of the 17th century. Who knows where the truth lies? Erzsébet Bathory, also known…
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Stan Lee: Farewell to a Legend
Stan Lee passed away last Monday (12th November, 2018) at the age of 95.He was a revolutionary comic book writer, editor, and publisher: an American icon, known worldwide for his…
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Tattooing A to Z #27: Owen Jensen
Owen Jensen was born in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As a young man he worked in the railroad shop in Ogden, Utah. In 1911 he saw the “Buffalo Bill Wild West…
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Frank Zappa Tattoos (and his last phantasmagoric ride)
Let’s relive ‘The Yellow Shark’, the amazing symphonic album which came out a few months before the Baltimore genius told us goodbye… The bad news arrived in the middle of…
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Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Bourbon presents Community Ink
Celebrating the art of tattoo by uniting five artists from across Europe to create the continent’s first tattooed leather billboard. This autumn, Bulleit Bourbon the Frontier Whiskey is celebrating the…
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Nikola Tesla Tattoos: the amazing tale of a genius
Genius or dangerous visionary? The truth lies somewhere in the middle and Tesla deserves to be celebrated for casting light on the shadows of ignorance. The date is historic: 10th…
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Mildred Hull “Millie”: The Queen of Bowery
Mildred Hull, the “Queen of the Bowery”, was born in 1897 and was a tattooed lady and a tattoo artist. Mildred started out her career in the cir-cus as a…
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Kiss Tattoos: the beginning of the end
Loved by millions of fans and main subjects of hundreds of portrait tattoos, after ‘Love Gun’ album came very hard times for these New York legends… It was 1976 and…
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Tattooing A to Z #25: Herbert Hoffmann
Herbert Hoffmann was born in Freienwalde in Pommern, on December 19, 1919. He was a tattoo artist and a photographer. His photographs of tattooed people across Germany resulted in a…
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Snoop “Doggy” Dogg Tattoos, and that groundbreaking first album
It was the end of 1993 when ‘Doggystyle’ came out (produced by Dr. Dre)’, the album which would turn Calvin Broadus Jr. into a subject in great demand for Realistic…
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Tattooing A to Z #24: Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy is an American artist, perhaps the most famous artist in the world of tattoo. He is best known for his tattoo work, his art and his eponymous…
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