The tattoo is an art form, a practice . . . for some, a ritual. Its history is long and colorful, dating back to the Neolithic, when our ancestors marked their bodies with symbolic lines derived from a carbon paste. Today, those same markings can be made on entering the neon parlors that line our cities.Maybe it's time to stop taking them so seriously.

 

There are 104 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2016 by Nobrow Ltd .

Paul Thomas is a political, strip and gag cartoonist from the United Kingdom whose work has appeared in Punch magazine, The Spectator, Private Eye, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian). As a comic illustrator his cross-genre caricatures and location drawings have appeared on Channel 4 and Sky Television. An Unreliable History of Tattoos is his first book.