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)