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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bob Marley Tattoos: the icon of reggae music
Supreme icon of reggae music, the great Robert Nesta died one sad day in May, but his cult lives on thanks to the power of tattoo. It had all started…
Rolling Stones Tattoos, and the new album is on the way
While album number 36 from the band that came out with ‘Tattoo You’ shuld arrive by the end of 2018, we discover that their energy in studio is as high…
Tattooing A to Z #23: Freddie Grossman “CONEY Island Freddie”
“Coney Island Freddie” Grossman, born in 1934, is one of the famous old New York style tattoo artists. He got his name from the years he spent tattooing at New…
Madonna Tattoos: Happy Birthday!
On 16th August the Italian-American singer will be sixty years of age. Let’s celebrate with a gallery of tattoos and talking about her new album. It’s her birthday and rumours…
Tattooing A to Z #22: Ole Hansen “King’s Tattooer” / “Tattoo-Ole”
Born in 1925 and raised as an orphan, Ole Hansen was a Danish tattooist who worked in the middle of the twentieth century. Ole is best known as “Tattoo-Ole”, the…
Amy Winehouse Tattoos: Remembering a True Artist
Alcohol, loneliness, fondly remembered by Tony Bennett and thousands of people who have had her tattooed: it was around now, 7 years ago, that we lost a true jazz artist.…
Tattooing A to Z #21: William Grimshaw
William Grimshaw was a tattoo artist who apparently operated in the Norfolk, Virginia area, during the 1940s and 50s. Little is known of him, including which Grimshaw family line he…
Tattooing A to Z #20: Bert Grimm
Bert Grimm was born in a little town near Portland, Oregon, on February 8, 1900. He started hanging around tattoo shops when he was about 11 or 12 years old,…
Tropical Fishes Tattoos: just a curiosity
If you think that the images of your tattoos dedicated to these amazing sea creatures come from some exotic ocean, you better read carefully here… The question is peculiar: what…
Tattooing A to Z #19: Doc Forest
Born Ove Skög, Doc Forest’s career as a tattoo artist began at sea. He was a sailor for seven years in the sixties, during the glory years of the Swedish…
Marilyn Monroe Tattoos: The last night of the Hoollywood star
The Hoollywood star – who is immortalised in a myriad tattoos – is the most alluring and despairing woman of the last century. This is our definitive tribute Alone. Locked…
Tattooing A to Z #18: Doc Forbes
Doc Forbes was a pioneer of Canadian tattooing, he was born in 1900 and died on Lyle Tuttle’s birthday, on October 10, 1977. He was well known for his classic…
Tattooing A to Z #17: Maurizio Fiorini
Maurizio Fiorini was born in 1928, in Montelupo Fiorentino, a small town not far from the city of art and crib of the Renaissance: Florence. He felt in love with…