This double back-to-back issue is packed with tons of juicy features. The beautiful Heather Moss is back on our cover for this special edition. Jessie Smith sits down with Dan Henk to talk New School. Frank LaNatra chats about his humble beginnings. We’ve got artists galore! Frank Miller, Walter Montero, Sabrina Sawyers, Dustin Delong, Cristian Casas, Omri Amar, Daria Stahp, Jan Druff, Fat Tony, Sean Gardener, Josh Peacock, Jamie Ris, and Matsy. Music & Ink sat down with the creepily eccentric Davey Suicide for an interview. Electrum’s Rob Smead talks about retirement for tattooers. Gunnar talks about passing the torch from generation to generation. And last but not least, SouthernGFX, the animation team behind many major Netflix and feature films, introduces our readers to 3D painting and modeling for tattoo artists on the iPad!
We love showcasing tattoo artists that push the envelope with artistic styles askew from what we're accustomed. The Summer 2021 Edition of Skin & Ink Magazine is a prime example of just how many new, inspiring, and innovative features and artists we can cram in between our covers! Daria Pirojenko brings her vibrant graphic design and pop culture portrait mashups to S&I. We had the honor of visiting Allen Williams, the legendary artist behind many of the extraordinary characters in Guillermo del Toro's movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. We sat down to chat about the many perspectives of sacred geometry with Dillon Forte. Jake Karamol discusses how he became a Tik Tok Superstar. Dan Henk interviews more tattoo icons than you can count on your fingers and toes about the tools they prefer to create their masterpieces. We interviewed the queen of tattooing, 40+ year tattoo veteran, Kari Barba. Our Music&Ink editors sat down with The Lonely Ones and Jack Russell's Great White to chat about their tattoos. Plus, we packed in a shit ton of artist spotlights to satisfy your burning desire for new art! Check out Brando Chiesa, Amayra, Franky Lazano, Posco Losco, Tommy Lee, Isnard Barbosa, Caleb Stephens, Manh Huynh, and Natsi in this issue!
Brandon Bond gives us his epic coup de grace as he wraps up his three part series on collabs with a hail mary of the world’s best tattooers! Dan Henk sits down with texture master Robby Latos! Nikki Simpson, Poch, Arlo, Yomico, Dom Brown, ATA Ink, Pablo Frias, Tony Justice, Andy Darkh, Josh Herman, Chris Showstoppr and so much more packed into this edition of S&I Magazine!
Skin & Ink Magazine pays homage to the comic book industry in the Fall 2022 Special Edition. Featuring astonishing work from pop culture tattoo artists hailing from every corner of the globe, including Muslubash, Derek Turcotte, Leanne Fate, Evan Olin, Marc Durrant, and Kyler Shinn. Our Fine Art Feature in this issue is none other than pen, ink, and chaos maestro, Jonathan Wayshak! Rob Smead of Electrum talks about the pros and cons of utilizing tattoo numbing creams. Music & Ink sat down with New Monarch for a one on one about their unique music. The immortally beautiful Dana Darling graces our cover. Altered Realm brings us fine a art feature on artist Robert Kokai and tons of comic-focused fan art bad-assery! All this and much much more packed into the Fall 2022 Comics & Ink Special Edition!
The Spring 2022 Edition of Skin & Ink Magazine brings us full circle to celebrating thirty years of being on newsstands around the world! This issue features the incredibly talented and equally beautiful Autumn Hudson featured on the cover. Autumn's work is an extraordinary example of fine art tattooing. Featured alongside Autumn, is one of new school tattooing's most coveted treasures, Scotty Munster. His art is bright and playful, yet employs fantastic textures which merge into a unique style that sets him apart from most other new school styles. This edition features epic work by Vainius Anomaly, Kindamo, Artem Korobov, Shooby, Kamil Mocet, Marek Hali and Klark. Our Fine Art Feature for this is issue is none other than Skin & Ink's very own Scott Versago. Versago exhibits his unusual portrait work spanning multiple mediums and styles. Electrum's Rob Smead talks about what makes a great shop owner in his article, "Business of Tattooing: Shop Owners". We sat down with Vinnie Dombroski of the bands Sponge and The Lucid to talk Music & Ink with him. All this and much more packed into the Spring 2022 Edition of Skin & Ink Magazine!
The beautiful and talented Cali Sefora graces the cover and showcases her delicate blackwork inside the pages of this issue. Our featured artists are Salem, Massachusetts natives and Black Veil Tattoo’s eerie Murray Twins! Don’t worry, we packed in the tattoo spotlights too! Francesco Bianco, Alexy Deschamps, Teodor Milev, Nacho Frias, Oksana Lukianenko, Andrea Frencken, Luis Valesquez, and Ryan Ousley! Music & Ink sat down for an exclusive interview with KK’s Priest, formerly of Judas Priest for a Q&A with guitarist KK and frontman Ripper Owens. Our Studio Spotlight is Jake Swift’s Cocoa Village Tattoo. Rob Smead of Electrum once again brings his industry-specific business knowledge to our pages. And last but not least, you absolutely don’t want to miss out on our fine art features in this edition, Dave Correia, and Mark Oliver! Skin & Ink Magazine Summer Edition 2022
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive psychology, this book disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion of the benefits they can offer.
Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don’t always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises—both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.
