--- title: Man Covers Back With Simpsons Tattoos description: A man hopes to win a Guinness World Record with a tattoo of 203 Simpsons characters. canonical: https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-12T21:25:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:18.184Z og:title: This Superfan Spent $10,000 to Cover His Back with 'Simpsons' Tattoos og:description: A man hopes to win a Guinness World Record with a tattoo of 203 Simpsons characters. og:url: https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Superfan Spent $10,000 to Cover His Back with 'Simpsons' Tattoos twitter:description: A man hopes to win a Guinness World Record with a tattoo of 203 Simpsons characters. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Superfan Spent $10,000 to Cover His Back with _Simpsons_ Tattoos  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 12, 2014 9:25 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 12, 2014 9:25 PM UTC Some people show their fandom by buying a box set or putting posters on their walls. For Michael Baxter, a prison officer from Australia, these empty tributes wouldn’t suffice. The 52-year-old says he has spent $10,000 and 130 hours to cover his back with 203 _Simpsons_ characters. According to the [_Daily Mail_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860517/Grandfather-203-characters-Simpsons-tattooed-seeks-Guinness-World-Record.html), Baxter hopes to snag the Guinness World Record for most having the most tattooed cartoon characters on his body. He’ll need to unseat [Lee Weir of New Zealand](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698895/Mmm-tattoos-Simpsons-fan-breaks-world-record-having-Homer-inked-arm-41-times.html), whose left arm is adorned with 41 tattoos of Homer Simpson. Baxter is grateful to his tattoo artist, Jade Baxter Smith, whose [tattoo art](http://instagram.com/jade%5Fbaxtersmith%5Fart/) also includes pop culture icons like Bill Murray and a _Kill Bill_\-era Uma Thurman. “I’m happy for Jade to use me to promote her work,” he says, noting that he doesn’t mind if people photograph her masterpiece. Baxter hopes for world record recognition on Dec. 17, which also happens to be the 25th anniversary of the premiere of _The Simpsons._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/"},"headline":"This Superfan Spent $10,000 to Cover His Back with Simpsons Tattoos","datePublished":"2014-12-12T21:25:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:18.184Z","description":"His favorite character is Homer.","url":"https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Guinness Book of World Records","The Simpsons","weird","tattoos","guinness world records"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3632271/simpsons-tattoos/","name":"This Superfan Spent $10,000 to Cover His Back with Simpsons Tattoos"}}]}] ```