Jacki Randall

Jacki Randall is an American artist, tattoo artist, musician and writer currently based in Baltimore. Born in Los Angeles in 1959, this self-taught creator first garnered attention for her lesbian focused cartoons in the Baltimore Gaypaper in 1981. Later her works were featured in publications such as The Spectator, International Tattoo Art, On Our Backs, Jewish Times, Independent Biker, and Calyx Magazine.

After working for years as a freelance artist, she took up tattooing in San Francisco in 1991 while fronting the band LoveScar.

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Exhibitions

• The NYC Cartoon Show
• The Leather Archives & Museum
• The GLCCB
• The Maryland State House (received special citation from Governor Schaeffer)
• The Gauntlet
• Baltimore Ink, Baltimore Museum of Art 2008

Interviews

Interviews include:

• Tattoo Savage #11
• Outlaw Biker Tattoo Revue #60
• Tabu Tattoo #2
• JustOut 8/04
• OutLoud 8/04, 6/08
• Electric City TV, SF 1991
• KBOOFM Portland 1995
• Inked2
• Publisher's Ring

While her fine art is signed J. E. Randall, cartoons and illustrations are signed with a stylized 'Jac' usually accompanied by the last two digits of the year produced. She works for charity auctions, composes music, and tattoos at her parlor Charm City Tattoo in Baltimore City.

References

http://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/rrri/ran.htm http://www.pansydivision.com/Pansy_Division/Gigs.html

External links

• http://prismcomics.org/profile.php?id=79
• http://www.clga.ca/Material/PeriodicalsLGBT/inven/oov/h1.htm