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Skin & Ink · September 1999

I learned to tattoo at the Diamond Club with Bill and Juni Salmon. This feature visits their San Francisco studio and includes a photograph of me and some of my early tattoos.

Photography by Charles Gatewood.

Electric Tattooing by Men 1900–2004

Page 101

A full-page portrait and a statement about tattooing, from the years when I was living in Florence and also working at Pepe Tattooing in Viareggio.

Roll Gently in Your Grave, Mr. Collins

A tribute to Sailor Jerry Collins from the Carnie Family and friends. I painted the cover illustration from a Sailor Jerry design and appear inside with a photograph and biography.

The Carnivale Tattoo Songbook

Musicians sent in their lyrics in their own handwriting. A tattooer then made a flash-style painting based on each song’s lyrics. The book pairs the handwritten lyrics with those paintings, with songs by the Ramones, Belly, Frank Turner, Mary Gauthier, the Menzingers and the Handsome Family, among many others.

I wrote the introduction. Here is a little of it:

From the introduction

“Organizing the vast chaos of story-telling tradition… it’s skulls and ballads, it’s pin-ups and train songs… their soft brushes and sharp pencils whistleblow that mournful warning: We can’t know where we’re going if we don’t know where we’ve been.”

Andy Hinton · Vienna, 26 March 2023