His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959).
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He also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story "Broken Ritual" is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story "Return to Adachi Plain" that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paper-back edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. It is set primarily at the beginning of the Edo period of Japanese history and features anthropomorphic animals replacing humans. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Usagi Yojimbo (, Usagi Yjinb, ' rabbit bodyguard ') is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. He began his career by lettering Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井 スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii.
He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Born in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井 スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator. This special digital edition also includes the original pages Sakai created for the Samurai collection! One of the most original, innovative, well-executed comicbooks anywhere to be found.Stan Lee. Honing his skills, saving villages, and oftentimes stumbling into delicate affairs of national/political significance Its quite clear that someone is writing his explosive life story. Usagi is now a 'Ronin' wandering swordsrabbit. Many became familiar with Usagi through his multiple appearances on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. Winning a battle against an old adversary, but feeling no joy in his victory, Usagi tells a friend the story of his training as a samurai. Yojimbo is the Japanese word for 'bodyguard' as Miyamoto Usagi was the personal bodyguard for a Japanese War Lord. The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 1 features the first appearance of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles team as they visit Usagi's world to assist Usagi and Gen in taking out an entire Neko Ninja hideout. Now Dark Horse is proud to make Stan Sakai's original Usagi Yojimbo series available online for the first time as part of a complete digital presentation of the Usagi Yojimbo epic! In this first issue, Sakai begins revealing Usagi's origin, previously only hinted at, in the first three chapters of Samurai. Now Dark Horse is proud to make Stan Sakai's original Usagi Yojimbo series available online for the first time as part of a complete digital presentation of the Usagi Yojimbo epic! In this first issue, Sakai begins reveal Already beloved for his adventures in several anthologies, the masterless samurai Miyamoto Usagi debuted his own eagerly anticipated series in July 1987.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Portland.Already beloved for his adventures in several anthologies, the masterless samurai Miyamoto Usagi debuted his own eagerly anticipated series in July 1987. He is the recipient of a Parents’ Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonists’ Society Division Award. Stan is also an award-winning letterer for his work on Sergio Aragonés’s Groo: The Wanderer, the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips, as well as for Usagi Yojimbo.
In 1991, Stan created Space Usagi, the adventures of a descendant of the original Usagi, dealing with the samurai in a futuristic setting. Since then, Usagi has appeared on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and as toys, on clothing, in comic books, and in a series of trade paperback collections. It first appeared in Albedo Comics in 1984. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit living in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. He received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. 31-6 Stan Sakais series gets the deluxe treatment from Dark Horse Over 600 pages of samurai action and adventure Full-color cover gallery Usagi Yojimbo has won multiple awards and been published all over the world Also available in a limited hardcover of 900 signed copies. Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in California with his children, Hannah and Matthew.
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