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Hardy Marks Publications is proud to announce the third volume in its Drawings forTattoos series, featuring more of the work of San Francisco’s Don Ed Hardy. Thefocus of this volume is drawings done between 1955 and 1957, when Hardy (at age10-12) was applying “tattoos” with eyeliner and colored pencils on neighborhoodkids. He and his partner in the “toy tattoo shop” were featured in a photo article inhis local paper, which is included in this book along with pictures his work.Hardy produced hundreds of flash design sheets during this period, before goingonto art in other mediums for ten years. He returned to actual tattooing in 1967after graduating art school, and went on to develop the cultural and artisticpotential of the medium, leading the world to its current popularity. This volume ofhis Kiddy Flash shows the precocious roots of his life-long passion.