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All of Me Is Illustrated
“ It’s an art book… photos are great, they really show the quality of the work… and you got Ray Bradbury. This will be a collectible for sure, definitely a book to have in every collection…” —Paul Booth
All of Me Is Illustrated is the first book to feature Ray Bradbury’s treasured stories "The Illustrated Man" and "The Illustrated Woman" together alongside the most stunning tattooed bodies of today.
Bradbury’s prose reminds us so wonderfully — and at times violently and humorously — how foolish it is to assume the origins and meanings behind a person’s tattoos. Just as with Bradbury’s characters, the motivations of the featured collectors and artists to ink (or be inked) vary. What is undeniable is that their illustrated bodies are a source of pride, wonder, titillation, and beauty, whether depicting the grotesque or the mundane. With an introduction by tattoo collector and scholar Anna Felicity Friedman, the result is a book that showcases masters of their craft.
Published in 2020 during the Ray Bradbury Centennial Year. A Lawrence Schiller Book for RosettaBooks and InkedMedia. Curated by Sami Hajar and photographed by Peter Roessler for Inked.
All of Me Is Illustrated is the first book to feature Ray Bradbury’s treasured stories "The Illustrated Man" and "The Illustrated Woman" together alongside the most stunning tattooed bodies of today.
Bradbury’s prose reminds us so wonderfully — and at times violently and humorously — how foolish it is to assume the origins and meanings behind a person’s tattoos. Just as with Bradbury’s characters, the motivations of the featured collectors and artists to ink (or be inked) vary. What is undeniable is that their illustrated bodies are a source of pride, wonder, titillation, and beauty, whether depicting the grotesque or the mundane. With an introduction by tattoo collector and scholar Anna Felicity Friedman, the result is a book that showcases masters of their craft.
Published in 2020 during the Ray Bradbury Centennial Year. A Lawrence Schiller Book for RosettaBooks and InkedMedia. Curated by Sami Hajar and photographed by Peter Roessler for Inked.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2020
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About the author
Ray Bradbury
2,561 books25.2k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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February 4, 2021
Beautiful art, interesting stories, what's not to love?!
February 14, 2025
This is a picture book that mostly consists of professional-grade photographs of individuals who have been heavily tattooed, but includes some beautiful and haunting short stories from the late Ray Bradbury that are also centered on the body as a canvas for art (“The Illustrated Man” and “The Illustrated Woman”). As an enthusiastic dabbler in the perpetual beautification of my own fleshy temple, it was also mesmerizing to read the short bios of different individuals and what inspired their various tattoo journeys. The picture quality and short stories were 5/5. But for how expensive this was when I got it, my money admittedly could have been better spent elsewhere.
April 13, 2023
I personally hadn't read anything by Ray Bradbury yet, but when I saw an ad for this book online, I knew I had to give it a shot. The book is brimming with beautiful, artistic imagery of tattoos and tattooed people. They pair seamlessly with Bradbury's stories. This book felt more like an experience to me and I really enjoyed it a lot.
One note of warning, if you don't want to see nudity, this isn't the book for you.
One note of warning, if you don't want to see nudity, this isn't the book for you.
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