Check out this month’s issue of Inked Magazine. Yours truly is featured in the Inked Icon section with a three page interview by Marisa over at Needlesandsins.com. Here’s a brief excerpt from the article…

INKED: This interview is for our Icon section-

BRAD FINK: What’s up with this “INKED Icon”?

That’s what we call the renowned artists we profile who have contributed to tattooing over the years and continue to advance the art.

Wow. I’m flattered, but you’re making me feel self-conscious. [Laughs.] Icons are people who are dead or at least old. I only just turned 39.

You’re nevertheless internationally known and respected in tattooing. Enjoy it.

I have a hard time with it when, at tattoo conventions, people come up and ooh and aah over me, because I feel like I just started – like I was just one of those kids who went to their first convention and saw Jack Rudy or one of those dudes and was blown away.

You’ve been tattooing more than twenty years.  What do you mean when you say you still feel like you “just started”?

A lot of times I find myself saying how amazed I am at how fast time goes. A couple of weeks ago, a guy who I used to tattoo in my kitchen in high school came into the shop to get another tattoo. Or my grade school art teacher just interviewed me for a local magazine in St. Louis.  I ended up tattooing her and she was so happy.

Of course, I’m definitely happy where I’m at and cherishing that I have three successful shops with great partners – Michelle Myles and Mark Andrews-and most recently, partners in a clothing line called Me Against the World. When I started I wasn’t thinking about where I’d end up. I just did what I did and never gave it much thought.  All of a sudden here I am, an INKED Icon.

Remember, in 1987, people didn’t put these fuckers on a pedestal like they do now. None of this reality TV shit. We were just skin mechanics, laborers, blue-collar dudes. I’m from the old mind-set. Tattooing is something I cherish and am protective of. Although I will say that with all the TV shows and media, there is more positive than negative coming from it. People are more educated when they come into the shop.