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All tattoos by John Hanley
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
This was the first tattoo I ever got... I don't really remember when it was... I just remember that I was 18... I'd like JTHM for some time, but it was actually my friend & tattoo artist John that convinced me to get it as a tattoo... It came out fucking awesome and it's still probably my favorite...
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We used the cover of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Issue #1 as a referance for the tattoo... It's probably the best cover in the series, and the style really comes through in the tattoo...
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The Flaming Skull
This baby is the second tattoo I got... Me and John were just hangin' out at the shop being bored one day, and what better to do when you're bored than get a tattoo, right? Right! So that's how this came about... I had absoutely no intentions of getting a tattoo that day, but it was definately worth it...
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The picture comes from some really rad flash they had... It wasn't even out for public display, but I'm priviledged like that... It came out really good, I'm quite happy with it... It's actually cool to look at the referance on this page as compared to the picture of the tattoo...
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'Oi!' On Fire
This was the third tattoo I got... I was hanging out at The Edge Tattoo alot and this new guy starts working there... And he saw my spikes and patches and shit so we start talking... His name was Peter or some shit... Turns out he actually drew the cover for The Unseen's "Lower Class Cruficion"... Anyway, he had a Japaneese textbook and in it was the symbol for 'Oi!'... and yeah, it was a real Japaneese textbook and Oi is a real word (it's British slang, like us saying 'Hey!') and being the punk rocker I am I decided to get it as a tattoo... Of course, we couldn't just do it plain... We had to go all out with the flames and brick... I dig it
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It's really funny now that I think about it, cause a while after I got this tattoo my friend J decided he wanted the same goddamn thing, but luckily he's a puss and he wimped out, after signing the release form and all that shit... Oh well, I don't even think that's really relevant but whatever...
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The BeeGirl
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I thought about this tattoo for a while before I got it... It looked really cool in black and white on the flash sheet, and it just came alive that much more when we colorized it... Especially with the cotton candy pink pussy lips... Nope, ya can't go wrong with that!
I forget who the artist who drew the flash sheet was, but I think I might wanna get another one from the same series as this one... I mean, how can you go wrong with naked faeires with bangin' tits, pink pussy lips and huge assed stingers coming out of their asses? That's what I thought...
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It's actually funny... While really high, the discussion came up that it'd be really cool instead of just having one naked chick on my arm, it'd be infinitely cooler to have an entire sleeve depicting a huge orgy of naked women... I still can't decide if I made a mistake by saying no...
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Entrophy Logo
This was a tattoo I knew I had to get for a long time... Alot of people think it's just as dumb to get band tattoos as it is to get the name of a girlfriend or boyfriend, and for the most part I agree, but hey, 1.) It's my band and 2.) Even if we broke up tomorrow it was one of the staples in my life for over eight years, so it definately will hold significant meaning for me, even when I'm old, wrinkled and grey...
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I basically came up with the layout myself, using our logo and just random graphics we've used on CDs and flyers over the year... It's pretty rad... My bandmates Nate & J also have Entrophy tattoos, except J's is in Japaneese, so he sorta weaseled out of that one, don't ya think?
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The Rat
This is my latest tattoo... I got it to commemorate my rat Vapid who died right before I got it, but now it commemorates all the rats I've had that have passed on (5 as of right now)... Anyway, being on my forearm this is probably my most visible tattoo, which of course is helped by me wearing short sleeves whenever possible...
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I ended up using the rat on Entrophy's homepage... The color in the referance picture was done by me, and as of right now, the actual tattoo remains black & white.
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If you like what you see, go get yrself some ink at:
Solid Tattoos
Amherst MA
1 (413) 259-0003
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