MY INDIE MAGAZINE CAREER:

First up, there’s the ‘small’ matter of eleven years as the editor of Skin Deep magazine: One Hundred and Thirty Five issues of the biggest tattoo magazine in Europe. You’ll have to roll with this image of exactly what that amounts to, otherwise we’ll be here forever:

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I also wrote a book or two on the subject along the way:

I couldn’t find a suitable place on any other page to mention I’ve travelled the world and judged competitions at over 80 tattoo shows. New York, Bucharest, Warsaw, London, Copenhagen, Virginia, Florence… I’ll stop now.

Here’s I am on the far right in Poznan, Poland 2019… if memory serves me correctly.

Here’s I am on the far right in Poznan, Poland 2019… if memory serves me correctly.

Before that flood, there was this… there’s a few missing here. I must dig deep and find them:

But it really all started around 1993 with a successful run of a ‘cut n paste’ fanzine called Rock n Roll Babylon that looked a lot like this. Again, there’s a few missing but you get the idea: