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The Inkmen cometh

There he blows, but Davee doesn't suck. This peripatetic Pole has shocked and amazed with his lurid new-school psychedelic cyberpunk manga madness in 40 countries and counting, picking up awards such as "best crazy", "best colour" and "best tattoo" at tat-fests from Krakow to Lviv, and Prague to Paris. If a gargoyle geisha with a snake's body writhing Godzilla-like around a day-glo manga metropolis while the Batman signal glows overhead sounds about your speed, Blows is your man.

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Tattoo by Davee Blows (Poland)

(Poland)

There he blows, but Davee doesn't suck. This peripatetic Pole has shocked and amazed with his lurid new-school psychedelic cyberpunk manga madness in 40 countries and counting, picking up awards such as "best crazy", "best colour" and "best tattoo" at tat-fests from Krakow to Lviv, and Prague to Paris. If a gargoyle geisha with a snake's body writhing Godzilla-like around a day-glo manga metropolis while the Batman signal glows overhead sounds about your speed, Blows is your man.

(Taiwan)

The island's big man of tattoo has wowed them from New York to Tokyo with his mesmerisingly detailed fusion of traditional Japanese-style tattoos and calligraphy given a contemporary spin. Commands upward of US$250 an hour at the big festivals. He also knows how to carve wood, and to carve vivid and sometimes disturbing images into the tattoo world's collective memory.

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