Universal Monsters I think I like the concept of the Hollywood Universal Monsters better than the original movies. The source material novels for Frankenstein and Dracula were great, classics I first read as a teenager in high school, but all the...

Evil Dead The first Evil Dead might have been a groundbreaking movie for the time, but it arrived on the screen a little too early! I was still a teenager, living in white-trash northern Florida with my conservative, military parents,...

Dead Alive For years, Evil Dead was my favorite movie. I even have it tattooed on my knuckles! There were plenty of horror fans telling me that the new version of Sam Ramia was New Zealand's Peter Jackson. I eventually saw his...

Cosmic horror has been my absolute favorite ever since I started reading books and comics as a little kid! When I first stumbled across the work of HP Lovecraft in the '80s, I had found my niche in life!...

Lovecraft Monsters Back in the late '80s, I picked up a Lovecraft collection from Tower Records. The cover art, by Michael Whelan, drew me in, and when I read it, my world changed. This was the first time I really...

Tattoo Instructional I was just a misfit punk rocker trying to make it in NYC in 1998, and despite being in galleries and interviewing with big publishers, I just couldn't rely on art to pay my bills. On the advice...

First convention of the year! I'll be in Detroit next weekend, March 6th-8th, at the Motor City Expo. As usual, anyone who wants something really cool (or realistic), I love portraits and screenshots. Hit me up, and I'll cut you...

Tattoo Snobs I see a lot of people talking down Friday the 13th tattoos. Those are the gatekeepers of the modern spoiled-brat variety. The kind of people who care more about looking cool to their peers than about being real...

The progression of my tattoo career. After being labeled as "the Giger guy"  early in my career, I grew tired of constantly repeating designs Giger had already illustrqated on paper. Tattoos have a whole different set of contrast and focus...

Working on my Birthday! I'm at Wyld Chyld full-time now. Yes, it's my birthday, and thanks for all the birthday wishes, I am working on my birthday, as I have an appointment at 1, and at 53, I'm not sure if I...