Tattoo Magazine #92 (April 1997) is a full spread of late-’90s tattoo culture, built around a run of artist features, scene profiles and big event coverage. The issue’s main features include Rusty King, Tim, Ben Newmark, Virginia, Chris Longo, The Devlins, David La Vine, Nina Marks and Tony No Toes, each paired with classic Billy Tinney photography and studio-era portrait shots. Event coverage centres on Meeting of the Marked, an Oktoberfest-style tattoo gathering in Steel Town, while a special section, Dunstable ’96, recaps the UK convention scene with a full slice of England’s tattoo beat.
Two profiles anchor the artist-focus section: Chris Dingwell in Please Feed the Art, showcasing his painterly, surreal approach, and Electric Dragonland, a peek inside Shahn Anderson’s high-energy studio and crew. The regular departments fill out the rest of the issue — Tattoo Mailbox, Slinging Ink, In the Skin, Flash, Business Cards, Fiction, Tattoo Times and Pushing Ink — maintaining the magazine’s monthly rhythm of reader voices, flash references and behind-the-shop stories. The cover features Virginia Comas, tattooed by Todd Vargas.
