We will update this section when more info is available.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:07:11 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40308008 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Emails from them indicate they will use the artwork from the softcover edition, but the solicitation previews show the original hardcover artwork with a slightly different font. The slipcase art for the hardcover edition.įantagraphics decided to do a second printing of the hardcover version, but with a different cover. This Special Edition will also brims with extra material, including a complete full-color gallery of the more than 50 Usagi covers from that period preparatory sketches, including Sakai’s original first draft of the “Samurai” story two “non-canon” Usagi stories by Sakai co-starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (with whom Usagi also shared screen time in the TMNT TV series) the rare behind-the-scenes “How I Draw Usagi Yojimbo” strip Introductions by Stan Sakai and Stan Lee and a feature-length, career-spanning interview with Sakai. With over 1000 pages of story, this is the complete, definitive, early Usagi. This slipcase set collects that entire run (previously published as seven trade paperbacks).

(If PIXAR and the late Akira Kurosawa were to collaborate on a movie, it might very well look like this.) For the first ten years of his career, the battling bunny was published by Fantagraphics Books. Usagi Yojimbo chronicles the action-packed wanderings of a masterless samurai (a “ronin”) in feudal Japan - as told with funny-animals.

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most iconic modern comics characters of the past quarter century and is a perennial favorite amongst young boys and adult fans. 1200 (HC), 1160 (TPB) Publication order Previous

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