Dark Horse is releasing the hardcover benefit book The Sakai Project: Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of Usagi Yojimbo this summer on July 23rd in
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For nearly 30 year's, Stan Sakai has been entertaining us From lettering Groo the Wanderer with Sergio Argones and Mark Evanier to his own creation Usagi Yojimbo, Stan has set the high-water mark for creator-owned comics.
Now Stan is dealing with one of the pitfalls of doing creator-owned comics… his wife Sharon has been battling a[...]
He uses these to help visualise the locations in the Mouse Guard world for drawing as well as to provide a break from slaving over the drawing board or computer screen.
We were treated to some pages of art from the currently in progress second volume of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard which will feature[...]
Solution – using setup of Rashamon set up of Kurosawa's film.
If successful, maybe do a Groo/Tarzan series.
Back to regular production when #4 comes back, Sergio working 'as fast as ever'.
After that do 12 issues of groo called Friends/Foes, alternating each issue between "friend" and "foe".
In future hope to reprint earlier groo stories, not sure whether[...]
With the Manara book, it was a rare chance for a work of pornography to win an Eisner.
Stan Sakai thanked Todd Klein for his "how to letter" book, which got him through his first comic, Groo The Wanderer, though each page looked different as he was trying out different pens James Kochalka turned up late[...]
Gavin Lees wrote for Bleeding Cool from Stumptown last weekend;
For close to three decades, Stan Sakai has been working on the adventures of Usagi Yojimbo — a funny-animal story based in feudal Japan, which manages to maintain an incredible level of authenticity to the history and culture of the country, despite the fact that[...]
One is famed for writing and drawing tales of a rabbit samurai, Usagi Yojimbo.
The other is famed for printing those comics.
Now Stan Sakai and Mike Richardson are creating a new book for November, 47 Ronin for Dark Horse Comics.
The tale of a daimyo (feudal lord) who was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) and his[...]
It certainly has for me.
Usagi Yojimbo #121 by Stan Sakai, published by Dark Horse Comics today.
It's been a while since I read Usagi Yojimbo It always struck me as a kind of Groo-lite, just not as funny or inventive And why buy Usagi when there was already Groo?
121 issues later it's a different story[...]