The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man was a pretty sad story. A man in danger of losing his job gets tattoos all over his body in order to become the carnival's illustrated man. To his suprise, his tattoo artist tells him that her tattoos can predict the future. After she tells him that, she gives him two of these future telling tattoos. Before he can see them, the carnival boss sets an unveiling but when he unveils the new tattoo it is a image of him killing his wife. The next day his wife is furious and as foretold he kills his wife. Later that night, the carnies find his wife dead and chase him down and kill him. Then they decide to look at his second tattoo and see something that shocks them all. It was a group of carnies looking down on a tattooed man's back with a tattoo of a group of carnies looking . . .

After reading I wondered if any one is really a illustrated man? I found that there is a man that has tattoos all over his body. Tom Leppard is a man who has his entire body tattooed with leopard spots, enough that he is listed in the Guinness Books of World Records as the World’s Most Tattooed Man. He is known for his feline split upper lip, facial whiskers, and of course his tattoos. Just imagine the pain he must of went through just like the man in The Illustrated Man.