Mr.cartoon biography

Pseudonym of Mark Machado, American tattoo and graffiti artist

For former local children's television show in Huntington, WV, see Mr. Cartoon.

Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon or Toon, is an American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California.

Mr.cartoon biography

He has been described by the New York Times as an "instrumental figure in the Los Angeles hip-hop scene"^[5] and by the BBC as "one of the greatest living tattoo artists in the US".^[6] Growing up in the Harbor area of Los Angeles County, young Cartoon began doing illustrations and graffiti then going on to airbrushing clothing and lowrider custom cars.

Machado then moved on to working in the music industry doing album covers, tour merchandise and later tattooing recording artists and other celebrities.

Machado's style of art is part of the Chicano art movement and cholo culture, which he became part of in the late 1980s,^[1