GOOD DAMAGE Print Editions

For tattooers and everyone else. Free to read, good to support.

GOOD DAMAGE publishes special print editions alongside its online editorial. Each edition brings together stories, photography and perspectives from across tattoo culture, made to be read away from a screen and kept beyond the scroll.

We print when the work is ready, not to fill a calendar. Every edition is built around the stories it contains, with the space, photography and design to give them room to breathe.

In production

Issue 01

Our first print edition is in production. We're keeping the details under wraps until we're ready to share them. For now, we're focused on getting the edition right.

Hear when it's ready and secure your copy
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Why print still mattersPicked up / Passed on / Kept

A magazine can sit on a studio waiting-room table for months, passed between people who might never have found it online. It can be picked up, put down, revisited and kept.

Print gives stories a different kind of presence. Photography takes on a different weight on paper. Design has room to work. And discovery happens somewhere beyond a feed.

GOOD DAMAGE in print is an extension of the publication, not simply a collection of pages from the website. It's another way to spend time with the people, work and ideas shaping tattoo culture.

How to get a copyDelivered / Direct / In the wild
01Print membershipOpens with Issue 01Each print edition delivered to your door. Members are guaranteed a copy before editions go to studio distribution or public sale.
02Buy directPrefer a single issue? Print editions will be available to purchase directly through GOOD DAMAGE, subject to availability.
03Find us in the wildDistributed through partner studios across Australia and New Zealand, where you can pick one up, have a read and find out how to get your own copy.We'll also be looking for chances to bring GOOD DAMAGE to conventions, expos and other events. Watch the site and our socials for appearances.

Want GOOD DAMAGE in your studio, or think we should be at an event?

Advertise in print

Be in Issue 01.

Put your brand in the first GOOD DAMAGE print edition, in front of tattooers, collectors and studio owners, on paper they'll keep. Space in the first edition is limited, and every placement is clearly labelled and kept separate from editorial.

01Kept, not scrolledPrint sits in studios and on shelves for months, read by people a feed would never reach.
02Seen in studiosIssue 01 goes to partner studios across Australia and New Zealand, in the waiting rooms.
03First inBack GOOD DAMAGE from the first page and be part of the edition that starts it all.