Tattoo Club Volume 1 - Keibunsha (2001) kaiju " Heavy Metal also publishes

" Heavy Metal also publishes tales of horror

this edition features a slick new cover yet keeps all the important interior content

this book is in both Japanese and English

Wearing a variety of different swimsuits (and sometimes nothing at all)

as Ishikawa cut his teeth on many Nagai projects early in his career

Tattoo Club Volume 1 - Keibunsha (2001) kaiju " Heavy Metal also publishesVolume 1 of a trilogy of magazine books released by Keibunsha in the early 2000s with galleries of tattoos done by Japanese tattooers. These publications served as a great way for other tattooers to see what was going on around the country, in a time when social media didn't exist. Photos originally published in Jitsuwa Document aka True Story Document, a Japanese tabloid with a focus on gang crime, nude women, suspense drama and politics and more.