an re; andys statement.

I Managed a tattoo shop for the better part of 4 years. I had this question asked about 3 times a day. Most everybody who worked there replied the same thing verbatim

"a good tattoo will hold up well for about 20-25years. and by that time you wont give a shit what you look like anyways"

Suehiro is killer. He's part of an art movement called "Ero Guro", which is usually a mix of surreality, beauty and sex with a grotesque sick element to it. It crosses into literature (especially a writer named Edogawa Rampo) and film too. I guess anime stuff like Urotsukidoji would apply too.

Suehiro seems to have a thing for silent German film too (he's copped some imagery from Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu).

I have a copy of a film based on Suehiro's art that caused some people to leave the store while we were watching it once. They were super freaked out. It was classic.

Yes, that was done by Hata from Inkrat.

Ink rat and cotton pickin are both KILLER shops.