Santa Inoue was born in Paris, France in 1968. He is a Japanese manga artist and owner of the Santastic! clothing line. Inoue's manga series was greatly influenced by hip hop culture, with some of the characters being modeled after rappers.

Favorites:
Boyz n The Hood movie
Katsuhiro Otomo
Kazuo Umezu's "Drifting Classroom"(manga)
Menace II Society(movie)
Raising Cain(movie)
Silence of the Lambs
Takao Saito's "Survival"(manga)

(Source: Wikipedia)

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