Big Joe & Sons Tattoo & Body Piercing has been featured in major tattoo magazines, newspapers, and on television, including the New York Times, Saturday Night Live, Cosmopolitan, and more. See some excerpts below.

Saturday Night Live, November 1995

 

Sean Penn tattoos David Spade in Big Joe’s Mount Vernon shop

Big Joe shows David Spade around his shop

 

True Romance, 1993

The artist tattooing Patricia Arquette uses a Big Joe Kaplan machine, the East Coast 2 Shader

Tattoo Revue Magazine, 1997

The New York Times, October 1996

 
 
 
 

The Journal News, April 2011

 
275318627.jpg
 

NY Daily News, April 1996

Newsday, 1988

 
 

Gannett News, August 1987

 
 

Herald-Statesman, November 1980

 

Gannett News, August 1996

 
 
 

Tattoo Magazine, May 1995

 

The Journal News, July 2001

 
 
 

SuperCycle Magazine, October 1989

 
 

Herald Statesman, July 1987

 
 

Herald Statesman, September 1994

 
 

NY Daily News, August 1994

 
 

Tattoo Revue Magazine

 
 

The Associated Press, January 1998

 
 
 

The Journal News

 

The Associated Press, December 1982

 
 

ABC-7 Eyewitness News, June 2020