Our gift for the convention

Free plates for visitors of The Vancouver Tattoo and Arts Festival

January 8 to January 10, 2027 · Vancouver · Vancouver Convention Centre

Eight comic plates about looking after fresh ink and fresh piercings on a convention trip: on the floor, in the street, at the hotel and on the way home. They are free, in 4K, for your studio, your wall or your collection. Print them, pin them up, share them.

See the plates Organiser's website

Made by Poli International for the visitors. We are not affiliated with the organisers. Dates can move: check with the organiser before you travel.

Comic plate: Turning your limb into a rigid weather vane is not a valid recovery strategy. Moist wound healing accelerates re-epithelialisation by approximately 50% compared to dry healing. — Turning your limb into a rigid weather vane is not a valid recovery strategy.
Moist wound healing accelerates re-epithelialisation by approximately 50% compared to dry healing.
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Comic plate: Helicopter physics cannot be safely applied to your facial features. Rotating jewellery tears the fragile new epithelial layer forming inside the fistula, sets healing back, and introduces bacteria. — Helicopter physics cannot be safely applied to your facial features.
Rotating jewellery tears the fragile new epithelial layer forming inside the fistula, sets healing back, and introduces bacteria.
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Comic plate: Hoarding bodily fluids makes for an absolutely terrible barista experience. Transparent film dressings must be removed immediately if fluid builds up, the seal breaks, or redness develops under the film. — Hoarding bodily fluids makes for an absolutely terrible barista experience.
Transparent film dressings must be removed immediately if fluid builds up, the seal breaks, or redness develops under the film.
Download free in 4K

Comic plate: Baking white breadcrumbs onto your skull is an open invitation to avian chaos. Do not apply aspirin paste, tea tree oil, or over-the-counter wart removers to a piercing bump. — Baking white breadcrumbs onto your skull is an open invitation to avian chaos.
Do not apply aspirin paste, tea tree oil, or over-the-counter wart removers to a piercing bump.
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Comic plate: It kills the bacteria, and also your skin cells. Hydrogen peroxide and alcohol are cytotoxic to fibroblasts and delay wound healing. — It kills the bacteria, and also your skin cells.
Hydrogen peroxide and alcohol are cytotoxic to fibroblasts and delay wound healing.
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Comic plate: You are healing a wound, not baking a cake. Coconut oil is not sterile and its occlusive properties can trap bacteria against a healing wound. — You are healing a wound, not baking a cake.
Coconut oil is not sterile and its occlusive properties can trap bacteria against a healing wound.
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Comic plate: A broken seal is just a swimming pool for street dirt. Remove transparent film dressings immediately if fluid builds up or the seal breaks. — A broken seal is just a swimming pool for street dirt.
Remove transparent film dressings immediately if fluid builds up or the seal breaks.
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Comic plate: Your piercing wants sterile saline, not your leftover tattoo lotion. The Association of Professional Piercers recommends sterile saline as the primary aftercare solution for all piercings. — Your piercing wants sterile saline, not your leftover tattoo lotion.
The Association of Professional Piercers recommends sterile saline as the primary aftercare solution for all piercings.
Download free in 4K

4K = 5504 x 3232 pixels, sharp up to poster size. The facts on the plates come from our article Tattoo & Piercing Aftercare Science. Your artist's own aftercare instructions come first.

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