Tattoo Artist Magazine #6: Malone, Leo Zulueta

💎Pick up this issue and you'll devour it first, and then come back to it over and over again! 💎

— TAM#6 is my all-time favorite issue of the Zine Project! It features:

- Mike Malone aka "Rollo Banks", friend and mentor (RIP) — the man who helped push me over the edge into the chaos of creating Tattoo Artist Magazine, and he was IN from the get-go! His passion for collecting tattoo history PLUS his love of underground printing & publishing in general is what prompted him to support me and the TAM Zine Project — He believed in it enough to promise a written and illustrated "Tattoo Tale" column in each early issue, for FREE — just to help get off the ground. It's a long interview with the Master and showcases photos and stories from Malone's 1970s to then present 2005 life and career! — It still resonates and inspires, today.
— 🙏 100,000 deep bows and Thank You's to Mr. Mike Malone! — Not only for what he did for me, but for Tattooing in general -1 and our history forever! We wouldn’t know squat if it weren’t for Rollo! 👑

- Then check out that Contents Page! It has articles on Malone's padawan - Keith Underwood, who has his own Rollo tales to share!

- Plus the Master of Black, Leo Zulueta, 🙇 who almost single-handedly ushered in the Trbal wave of tattooing (thanks in part to the encouragement and guidance of guru Ed Hardy🙌).

🤔Don’t know your tattoo history? Well, trust me — you really want to Catch this wave!🤙

- The Step-By-Step painting art lesson for this issue is by maestro Hunter Spanks as he brings "Dead Mary" to life!

- Plus: flash by Jeff Zuck and Jime Litwalk: and amazing submission photos by some of the best artists of today, (but back when they weren't quite household names yet! — Names like: McStay, Kuhn, Jorgensen, O'Donnell, Quinters, Denning, Wood, Castano, Sinnes, Dettmer, Aitchison and many many others!

👹Dig in!