Jonathan Shaw (tattoo artist)

Jonathan Dowling Shaw (born July 4, 1953) is an American tattoo artist and writer.

He arrived in South America, finding work as a deckhand and tattoo artist.

[7] In 1990, Jonathan Shaw, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch founded the Death Is Certain Club to celebrate their friendship.

[8] Shaw sold Fun City in 2002, after only five years of legal operation, to focus on writing.

After 28 years tattooing, Jonathan retired from the profession in 2004 and moved back to Rio de Janeiro, where he wrote his first novel Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes, published in 2008 by HarperCollins.