1989 Mike Rollo Malone Traditional Vintage Style Tattoo Flash Sheet Paul Rogers

Description: VERY RARE 1989 Mike "Rollo" Malone, "For Paul Rogers", Biker Style, Tattoo Flash Sheet. Laminated, High Quality Copy. Measures Roughly 11X15" (Inches). READY FOR DISPLAY, IN ANY TATTOO SHOP, ART COLLECTION, OR TATTOO MUSEUM! Old School, Vintage Style Tattoo Flash. Would Look Great Matted Framed! PLEASE SEE PICTURES FOR CONDITION. WHAT A WONDERFUL RARE PIECE OF TATTOO HISTORY!!!!!!! This is a great piece of Artwork to display in your shop, or a proud addition to any collection! This is a great investment for any Tattoo Shop or Art Collector! Will Ship FLAT, Priority Mail. I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ITEMS! Mike Malone led one of those lives that you read about in books. Mike was born in California and after high school he studied ceramics, learned carpentry, became a licensed barber, did light shows for a 1960's rock ballroom, worked as a photographer -- and all before meeting Thom de Vita with his Paul Rogers tattooing! Meeting de Vita awakened him to the beauty of tattoo art and it was not long before he was tattooing in his apartment in New York City. The thoroughly modern New York City still had a ban on tattooing that forced tattooists underground. Malone worked with the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City on their 1971 tattoo exhibition. From there he moved west to San Diego and worked with Zeke Owens at his Ace Tattoo shop. As fate would have it, after Sailor Jerry Collins death in 1973, Malone had the chance to buy Sailor Jerry's famous Hotel Street shop. Malone jumped at that chance, renamed it China Sea Tattoo Company and maintained that shop until 2001. While on Hotel Street Malone carried on the grand tradition that Sailor Jerry started so many years before: good, solid, clean, creative tattooing. During this period Malone started his tattoo flash business that he called Mr. Flash and his t-shirt business, which he called Mr. Lucky. Both of these businesses were a big success; in fact, the flash business changed the look of tattoo shops around the world. Malone spent a lot of time around Paul Rogers learning the ins and outs of machine building and used this knowledge to build custom machines for many tattooists. The mid 1980s found Mike Malone living in Austin, Texas, first working with Dave Lum and later having his own shop. He continued his flash and t-shirt business there, did covers for the local underground and did some of his best and largest tattoos. In the 1990s Malone worked with long time friend Don Ed Hardy and produced two great Sailor Jerry flash books and licensed many Sailor Jerry designs that were reproduced on clothing, bags, lighters, posters etc. Malone moved back to Honolulu for a short period and later to Minnesota, opening the Aloha Monkey shop in Burnsville, Minnesota. He next relocated to Chicago working with Keith Underwood at his Taylor Street shop. In 2002 Hardy Marks Publishing printed Bull's Eyes and Black Eyes showcasing Mike Malone’s tattooing and painting. Mike ended his life as he lived it, on his own terms, with a self inflicted gun shot wound April 17th, 2007 in his Chicago home. "I am not really worried too much about my place in history. I mean, I guess I'll have a little place in the history of tattooing in this particular time slot. But that's not what gets me coming down here in the morning. I like the work." - Mike Malone Originally published by the Tattoo Archive © 2008 Updated 2017 The New York Times April 30, 2007 Michael Malone, 64, Who Drew Tattoos With Flash and Flourish, Is Dead By DENNIS HEVESI Michael Malone, a tattoo artist renowned among his peers for helping to popularize and standardize tattooing through the vivid images of dragons, daggers, cartoon characters and crests that he distributed to tattoo parlors around the world, died on April 17 at his home in Chicago. He was 64. Mr. Malone committed suicide after a long illness, his business partner, Keith Underwood, said. Mr. Malone, who assumed the pen name Rollo Banks early in his career, was noted for standardizing "the flash," the 11-by-17-inch posters on tattoo parlor walls that show up to a dozen images from which clients make their choices. "What Rollo did was produce clean yet powerful tattoo designs and circulate them across the globe," said Chris Midkiff, editor of Tattoo Artist magazine. Before Mr. Malone, Mr. Midkiff said, "most tattoo shops hand-drew their own flash. Mostly it was bad drawing by people who weren't really artists." Mr. Malone was also known for intricately blending iconic Asian and Western images, sometimes with a dash of iconoclastic humor. In one design he combined a fiercely protective Buddhist deity, Fudo, with Bluto, the menacing thug from Popeye cartoons. In an interview on Tuesday, Don Ed Hardy, a noted tattooist and the author of a 2002 book about Mr. Malone, "Bull's-Eyes & Black Eyes" (Hardy Marks), described a nearly full-body tattoo that Mr. Malone created for one client. "He did a shortened kimono, open down the middle of the torso, down the back to the thighs, and just past the elbows," Mr. Hardy said. "He drew a huge multicolor Godzilla on the guy's back, and on the front and arms were other figures from Japanese monster movies." The price: "More than $5,000." Mr. Hardy said Mr. Malone was the first tattoo artist to distribute flash sheets featuring Hawaiian designs from the time before missionaries arrived in the 1800s — arm, leg and wrist bands of interlocked triangles, diamonds and arrows. Last October he was one of six artists featured in an exhibition, "Marked Men: Fine Art from 6 Influential Tattooists," at the Old Dominion University Gallery in Virginia. Michael Alfred Malone was born on April 25, 1942, in San Rafael, Calif., a son of Francis and Evelyn Malone. His father was a house painter who made kites from brown paper and encouraged his son to paint images on them. Mr. Malone is survived by his brother, Steven, of Santa Rosa, Calif. Steeping himself in California's 1960s counterculture, Mr. Malone worked in San Francisco on rock shows that had psychedelic lighting while studying ceramics and carpentry. He moved to Manhattan in the late '60s and, under the tutelage of a local tattooist, began decorating clients at his downtown apartment. In 1971 he helped organize an exhibition called "Tattoo!" at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan. A year later Mr. Malone moved to Hawaii and became a protégé of the artist known as Sailor Jerry Collins, who was famous in the industry for introducing a sophisticated style and vivid new colors to the skulls, roses, hearts, tigers and sailing ships of classic tattooing. When Mr. Collins died in 1973, Mr. Malone bought Mr. Collins's company, China Sea Tattoo, in the Chinatown district of Honolulu, and with it his mentor's designs. With those images and his own designs, Mr. Malone started several mail-order businesses, including one called Mr. Flash. Mr. Midkiff of Tattoo Artist magazine said that under the Mr. Flash logo Mr. Malone produced approximately 300 sheets with more than 3,000 designs. "Rollo educated the bulk of the tattooers everywhere," he said. Mr. Malone, a 300-pound six-footer with a close-cropped beard, never made a fortune from his business and never took himself too seriously. In an interview with Mr. Midkiff last year he criticized tattooers who think they are "building a monument to themselves." Tattooers are "outlaws," he said. "Like this tattoo I did yesterday — it said 'Scalawag.' And I like that. It's part of who we are: scalawags."

Price: 39.99 USD

Location: Port Saint Lucie, Florida

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