The Big Book of Bode Tattoos

408 Pages·2013·15.13 MB·English

by  Mark Bodé

Over 400 pages of tattoo flash, including Cheech Wizard!
Take a peek into Mark Bode’s sketchbook with this giant compendium of tattoo
designs influenced by comic book and graffiti art, spanning a decade of creation. In
this chunky brick of a book are voluptuous “Bode Broads,” beloved characters from
Vaughn Bode’s Cheech Wizard comics, and Mark Bode’s personal interpretation of
classic tattoo motifs, including dragons, angels, demons, lions, butterflies and more.
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Dedicated to my father, Vaughn Bodē
The Big Book of Bodē TaTToos
By Mark Bodē
Published by
LasT gasP
777 fLorida sTreeT
san francisco, ca 94110
www.lastgasp.com
Publisher: ronald e. Turner
editor: colin s. Turner
Book design: colin s. Turner and chris Long
copyright © 2013 Mark Bodē. all rights reserved. no part of
this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any
means without prior written permission from the publisher.
isBn: 978-0-86719-779-2
first printing, 2013
Printed in china
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In the beginning of my art career as a comic artist in the late '70s, I would have never
guessed I would be leaving my art indelibly on people's skin.
During my short and turbulent apprenticeship under my tattoo teacher Al Valenta,
I produced many tattoo flash designs. Some have been tattooed many times. Other
designs may never be tattooed as they were merely fun things to draw.
Over the years, I have been asked to do Vaughn-inspired designs from my father's classic
characters. Many of the designs in this book are one-of-a-kind, and out of respect for
the first collector, they should be altered in future versions. But the obvious classics can
remain the same, as Cheech, the Lizards, and the Bodē Broads would have it.
I hope you enjoy a look into one-times-two artists in one book: myself and my father.
Extra thanks to Colin Turner and Last Gasp Publishing for making this book a reality.
Mark Bodē
March 2013
San Francisco
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