Yeah he is. This was done in Jan. '91, within a month or so before he moved out to San Francisco and opened Primal Urge. I saw his work progress in magazines to simply amazing stuff. I guess you can see early touches of his signature shading in my scarab. What's incredible is that the tattoo took three hours and he charged me $80. But that was a long time ago. Super nice guy and I'm glad to see he's done well.