Tattooed Penguins: Six Books Get Inked

The latest nifty offering from Penguin is a series called Penguin Inks where tattoo artists were commissioned to come up with cover designs for 6 modern classics.

The series is set to debut in June.

More at Shelf Talk, the book blog of Entertainment Weekly.

While we’re talking tatts. Here’s a women who sacrificed her back and arms for Alice in Wonderland.

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and finally, don’t forget Jeff Johnson’s recent acclaimed memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink.


Thanks to @mikecane for the lead on the Alice tattoo