Every month I write about some of the best tattoo shops the Tri-State Area has to offer. This month, I chose to do something a little bit different than I’ve done in the past eight years. I’ve stepped away from the shops and decided to write about this amazing book that I received a few weeks ago called Beyond Tattoo by London-based tattoo artist Allan Graves. The book encompasses remarkable artwork by more than 50 artists from around the world.

Allan Graves, also known as the “King Of The Creepy Castle,” runs Haunted Tattoos in London. His artwork has seen the skin of bodies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ibiza, Berlin, and Barcelona. He is the owner of and leading artist at London’s famous Haunted Tattoos. Graves is best known for his “comic book on the skin” style of artwork and his love of anything that has to do with zombies. It’s actually pretty funny that he describes his work as a “mix between Scooby-Doo meets The Misfits.” Graves doesn’t spend all of his time doing creepy tattoos, however. According to his bio, he still loves drawing and finds time in his busy schedule of tattooing and “grave robbing”…