Southern California has been home to many legendary tattoo artists including Ed Hardy, born in Costa Mesa, who spent his childhood hanging out at a local tattoo parlor studying the art.
Author, journalist and co-author of Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos, Joel Selvin, tells Alex Cohen about Hardy’s unique journey in the world of tattoos, from doing skin art on his friends when he was 10-years-old with Maybelline eyeliner, to licensing his art that would appear on everything from lighters to baby onesies.
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