This is a true story which found its roots in the answer to the question, "How did you get into Tattooing?" Written for a wider audience, Show Time is a "unique to the author" tale of a vagabond journey from the streets of London, England in the 1980s to the international tattoo scene of the 90's. Show Time follows the progress of the author's quest to find the chinks in the armor of a heavily male dominated trade and gain knowledge and hands-on experience tattooing traveling in a van in southern Europe to build enough self-taught skills to to be accepted into a tattoo studio in the early 90s. Show Time provides an inside look at the old school ways of a shadowy heavily protected trade before and during the advance of tattooing as an art form and its meteoric rise in popularity in mainstream culture.
Published in 2024
5.5 x 8.5, Softcover
205 pages
