Dontcha just love him!? The right amount of spunk and sleaze without being too vile. I'm a sucker for his big quiff, his leather jacket and that earring! The shading and detail on this is amazing and it's such a clean tattoo! I've definitely been asking myself why it's taken me so long to go back and see Mark...I'm certain this wont be the last. In fact, I have another great piece in mind...but all in good time. He's on the inside of my left leg and he's still healing so it was a little difficult to try and get a good photo without too much shine that showed all the detail but I think you can tell how awesome he is. And just in case you were left in any doubt, even though he's still not completely healed he managed to win me a trophy for 'best female small' on the weekend at Little Mick's Rockabilly Rebels Car Show on the weekend! Not bad eh?



Now you may be asking 'why the wolf?'. Well, the short and simple answer is I just like him! The artwork that was in Mark's shop first planted the seed in my mind years ago and it's been rolling around in my brain ever since. But the true origins of this guy go waaay back and they're quite amusing. You may vaguely remember a cartoon wolf who was a sucker for the ladies and used to howl and pant with his eyes bugging out when he saw a hottie? That's where my first exposure to this character came from, the old cartoons. But he is actually a character created by Tex Avery, an American cartoonist who worked for Warner Bros and MGM in the 40s and 50s during the Golden Age of Hollywood animation and is responsible for creating some of the most famous characters of all time including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Where does the wolf come in though? Well, he was created for a 1943 cartoon called Red Hot Riding Hood, which has since been voted 7 out of the 50 greatest cartoons of all time.