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Tag: Cartoon Tattoos

  • “It’s just a bit of…harmless brain alteration, that’s all.”

    Written by

    Rob

    The extent of my knowledge of Wallace and Gromit is that they’re claymation characters from some British animation studio, and evidently they’re super popular.  As with everything popular, eventually someone will get a tattoo of it.  Katy Colvin from Liquorice Tattoo in Kirriemuir, Scotland sent in this piece of the claymatic duo on a fan’s arm.  Liquorice Tattoo has been sending in a lot of really great portraits lately so expect to see more from Katy in the coming weeks.

    The full size image of this one can be found in the newly renamed Cartoon & Comic Gallery.

  • The Smash-up

    Written by

    Rob

    PENGUIN SMASH!!

    Ryanthetoxicboy sent in this tattoo of a penguin destroying a city, that was done by Sam Wolf from Signature Tattoo.

    I don’t know about you, but I think it’s best we take a moment to respect the noble penguin.  You never know when the day will come that they’ll get sick of our cute movies and commercials, and rise up to conquer the earth.

  • Cheers!

    Written by

    Rob

    It may not be happy hour in your neck of the woods just yet, but when you’re Hello Kitty, every hour is happy hour!

    HelloStephanie sent in this photo of Hello Kitty getting her drink on.  She gets bonus points for having her toenails match the tattoo.

  • I Heart You

    Written by

    Rob

    Oh young love.  Where every moment feels like the first, and the last.  Every feeling is magnified a thousandfold, and your heart feels like it could beat out of your chest.  Where you take your heart, and offer it up to another, hoping that they do the same.  Alas, Cupid’s arrow doesn’t always hit both of his targets square in the heart, and while one person may fall head over heels in love, the other might only get a flesh wound.  So what is one to do?  Grab hold of that arrow, rip out their own heart and offer it freely, with the hope that the other person will do the same?  Or leave it buried deep within themselves, forever lodged in their chest, aching whenever they think of the one they lost.

    Tattoo by Chris from buxe voll?tattoo in Germany.

  • Even unicorns have bad days

    Written by

    Rob

    You ever have one of those nights where you’re just in a foul mood, and need to drink away your problems.  You hit the bars, smoke a lot, and down any kind of booze you can find.  After you’re good and sauced, you get into a fight, and hit on someone, not necessarily in that order.  The next morning you awake with the hangover from hell and the only thing your body is capable of doing is getting everything out as quick as possible.

    Well, this can happen to unicorns too.  Don’t think that just because they’re all rainbows and sunshine they can’t have a bad day.  You know how hard it is to constantly be happy and prance about with a heart tattooed on your ass?  Well, if you ever see a unicorn out on a binge, make sure to stay out of their way, lest you end up gored by a horn and covered in rainbow vomit.

    Evil_Emil sent in this piece by Pecka Lindahl from Pecka’s Tatueringskonst, in Östersund, Sweden.

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