Uncle Blubbafink

Keith Graves, the author of seriously ridiculous stories like Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance, is garnering Hollywood’s attention, but did he ever want it?

"...Rollo Banks chortles...."

June 8, 2001 Books Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two

Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says "get well" to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and "farewell" to former staffer Sarah Hepola.

"...worked for us. He showed up one day, and Rollo Banks, legendary tattoo artist and onetime Chronicle Cover Master,..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...XII. Louis Black: "We were having a party behind Rollo Banks' China Sea Tattoo Company about a block from..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Love Is All Around

Lucinda Williams gets married onstage in Minneapolis

"...artist Kandi Everett, longtime friend via my late ex Rollo Banks. Some years ago when Lucinda decided to get..."

Sept. 21, 2009 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her

On Margaret Moser: Happy together, then, now, and forever

"...no way to catalog the Margaret Moser run (and Rollo is a book, not a chapter). Some random highlights:..."

June 30, 2017 Column by Louis Black

The Pet Issue: Chronicle Staff Pets

"...Rollo Banks, the great tattoo pioneer and godfather of the..."

Feb. 9, 2017 Photo Gallery

Greencards and Black

The Greencards, Austin Music Awards, and Louis Black

"...When my sainted late ex-husband Rollo Banks and I were in the throes of courtship,..."

April 30, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

"...really punk, consider this: they ripped off sometimes-local tattooist Rollo Banks for the tat design that you see on..."

May 12, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Cumulative Staff Box

"...Columns: Patrick Taggart, Anne S. Lewis, Pat Cuney, Suzy Banks, Michael Ventura, R.U. Steinberg, Gerald E. McLeod, Stephen MacMillan..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Nick Barbaro

Buddha Throws a Party

One version of the origin story of the zodiac

Feb. 12, 2021 Arts Feature by S. Emerson Moffat

We Have an Issue: Babies on the Brain

In this week's cover story, new dads Kevin Curtin and Black Angels frontman Alex Maas talk about creativity and fatherhood

"...Year of the Ox: Back when the revered artist Rollo Banks worked for the Chronicle in the Eighties, he..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Margaret Moser 1954-2017

Austin’s patron saint of music passes

"...15 years to famed tattoo artist Mike Malone (aka Rollo Banks), served a key community function as the life..."

Aug. 26, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows

Austin Music Awards Director Margaret Moser goes out with a bang

"...late Eighties after marrying tattoo legend Mike Malone (aka Rollo Banks), retaking ownership over the AMAs when she returned..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Aloha, Milly Littlejohn

Hawaiian farewell to a classic newswoman

"...In October 1988, I moved with my then-husband Rollo Banks to Honolulu, where he’d been based since he..."

Oct. 1, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: Five Degrees of Chinanine

Thirty years of the Austin Music Poll, five layers of Chinanine, and a fistful of Austin Music Awards confirmations

"...shows while I sojourned with my sainted late ex-husband Rollo Banks in Hawaii. I was back for the '92..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: The Name Game

What's in a name? Plenty if you're a WIMP or WEENIE!

"...sex toys about onstage with Dino Lee and married Rollo Banks!..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Page Two: Printing the Legend

A brief history of Austin's improbable weekly, 28 years on

"...was me. Barbaro (aka the Captain, the title that Rollo Banks long ago unfortunately bestowed upon him), on the..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...whole group down the street to introduce them to Rollo Banks at his tattoo parlor. Since we hadn't bothered..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Food-o-File

Check out foodie wishes for the new year, local foodie fundraisers, and the Year of the Ox

"...custom cover art designed by the late tattoo artist Rollo Banks to herald the arrival of Chinese New Year...."

Jan. 16, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

After a Fashion

Your Style Avatar rocks with the royals and those who throw parties like they are

"...the work of my late brother-in-law, Mike Malone aka Rollo Banks). My brother Scott (the older one) was there..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Stephen ranks the top trends, events, and train wrecks of 2007

"...Lady Bird Johnson, Karen Kuykendall, Rollo Banks TOP 10 CANCER MOVIES..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Off the Record

Welcome to "Spazmodica," the future of Austin music

"...Michael Malone (aka Rollo Banks)..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Beat Goes On: R.I.P. Uncle John Turner

Johnny Winter drummer and the power of three

"...today, I was in Chicago eulogizing my former husband Rollo Banks. In the comfortably numb state of shock that..."

July 26, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Sexy table legs and not-so Puritans

"...the same way). Dog cheese anyone?The late tattoo artist Rollo Banks is responsible for introducing the arm-band style tattoo...."

May 4, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

TCB

Remembering a tattoo legend, bracing for Texas' upcoming festival season, and saying so long to 'hippie hour.'

April 27, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

'The Austin Chronicle' and Richard Linklater

The beginning of a beautiful friendship

"...cover was of Sam Fuller and by Dan Kratochuil, Rollo Banks, and Rick Linklater, who was, of course, the..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Married to the Mob

"...throughout its first decade. Margaret Moser met and married Rollo Banks via the Chronicle. Other Chronicle marriages include account..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Page Two

Could the Statesman's Michael Corcoran ever be Austin's Herb Caen?

"...twist, the audacious diss wittily delivered (often using the Rollo Banks unexpected/exaggerated metaphor technique). Not backed by the passion..."

April 7, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...was a well-regarded player in a town where, as Rollo Banks once pointed out, every goddamn bartender is a..."

July 25, 1997 Column by Louis Black

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