Tattoo questions, answered
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- Who is Sailor Jerry?
- Who is Ed Hardy?
- Who is Horiyoshi III?
- Who was Maud Wagner?
- Who was the first woman tattoo artist?
- Who is Whang-Od?
- Who invented the electric tattoo machine?
- What was the first tattoo shop in the United States?
- Who was the first professional tattooist in Britain?
- Who was Gus Wagner the tattooed man?
- Who is Lyle Tuttle?
- What is Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo?
- Who is Mudskipper the tattoo artist?
- Who brought traditional Japanese tattooing to Brazil?
- Who brought the first electric tattoo machine to Brazil?
- Who was Cap Coleman?
- Who was Paul Rogers the tattooer?
- Who was Bert Grimm?
- Who was Charlie Wagner?
- Who was the first woman to own a tattoo shop on the Bowery?
- Who was the first African-American woman to own a tattoo shop?
- Who was Betty Broadbent?
- Who was Artoria Gibbons?
- Who founded the Horiyoshi lineage?
- Who is Horihide and why does he matter?
- Who was George Burchett, the King of Tattooists?
- What is China Sea Tattoo Company?
- Who is Henk Schiffmacher, Hanky Panky?
- Who is Filip Leu?
- Who is Keone Nunes?
- Who is Su'a Sulu'ape Petelo?
- Who was Cliff Raven?
- Who was the first publicly recognized female tattooer in Britain?
- Who was Christian Warlich?
- Who is Horitomo?
- What is Into You London?
- Who was Bernie Luther, the Vienna tattooer?
- Who was El Socio, the Tepito tattooer?
- Who was the first tattooer in Mexico to get a government permit?
- Who was Tito el Colombiano, the prison tattooer?
- How were tattoos made in Mexican prisons in the 1970s?
- Who was Nicholas Mudskipper Keeping?
- Who was Tahiti Felix Lynch, the San Diego tattooer?
- Is there a Tahiti Felix's Master Tattoo in Australia?
- Who was Lew Alberts, Lew the Jew?
- Who was the first tattooer to sell printed flash sheets?
- Who founded the Horiuno tattoo line in Japan?
- Who was Hori Chiyo and why could he only tattoo foreigners?
- Who is Horitoshi I?
- Who was the first known African-American woman to own a tattoo shop?
- Who was Mildred Hull, the Bowery tattooer?
- Who was Irene Woodward, the Original Tattooed Lady?
- Who was the first professional tattooed woman exhibited in the United States?
- Who was Emma de Burgh, the tattooed circus performer?
- Who was Jessie Knight, the British tattooer?
- Who is Vyvyn Lazonga, Seattle's First Lady of Tattoo?
- Who was Amund Dietzel, the tattooer of Milwaukee?
- Who was Percy Waters and what did he patent?
- Who was Milton Zeis and what was his tattoo correspondence course?
- Who was Christian Warlich and what did he bring to Germany?
- Who was Herbert Hoffmann?
- Who founded the first tattooists' club in Britain?
- Who was the first tattooer to use an electric machine in Canada?
- Who carried the first electric tattoo machine into Brazil?
- Who is Chaz Bojorquez and did he tattoo?
- Who is Mister Cartoon, the Los Angeles tattooer?
- Who is Big Sleeps, the lettering tattooer?
- Who is Dr. Lakra, the Mexican tattoo artist?
- Who were the Moskowitz family of Bowery tattooers?
- How did Tony Polito survive New York's tattoo ban?
- Who was Mike Malone, Rollo Banks?
- Who was Phil Sparrow, the professor who became a tattooer?
- Who founded the Leu Family tattoo dynasty?
- Who founded American Tattoo in Buenos Aires?
- Who is Stefano Alcantara, the Peruvian tattooer?
- Who started the first tattoo studio in Madrid?
- Who was Captain George Costentenus, the tattooed sideshow star?
- Who was Stoney St. Clair, the carnival tattooer?
- Who is Horitaka and how is he tied to Horiyoshi III?
- Who pioneered neo-tribal tattooing in the West?
- Who was George Bone, the British tattooer?
- Who was Cindy Ray, the Australian tattoo pin-up?
- Who was Elizabeth Weinzirl, the Tattooed Grandma?
- Who was the first to earn a degree centered on tattooing?
- Who was Painless Jack Tryon and where did he set up?
- Who was Bob Shaw and what shop did he keep running?
- Who was Tony D'Annessa and how did he start tattooing?
- Who is El Bara, the Madrid old-school tattooer?
- Who taught Mudskipper's crew at Tomb Tattoo in Cape Town?
- Who was Charlie Cartwright in tattoo history?
- What did Jack Rudy contribute to black-and-grey tattooing?
- What did Freddy Negrete bring to Chicano tattooing?
- Who is Valerie Vargas in neo-traditional tattooing?
- Who is Stizzo in Italian neo-traditional tattooing?
- Who is Horitaka and how does he connect to Horiyoshi III?
- Who is Bob Tyrrell in black-and-grey realism?