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Usagi Yojimbo [兎用心棒] #Artbook
Usagi Yojimbo Gallery Edition Volume 2: The Artist and Other Stories
Stan Sakai's masterwork Usagi Yojimbo continues to enchant its multitude of fans thirty years after its debut. The five-time Eisner Award-winning series has had many incarnations, but none so stunning and absolute as The Usagi Yojimbo Gallery Edition. Now, in Volume 2, relive some of your favorite moments from Usagi's Dark Horse days--the timeless tea ceremony in Chanoyu , Usagi's childhood mishap in Usagi and the Tengu , and more--in a way you've never seen them before! This oversized tome showcases Sakai's unaltered artwork, scanned from the original art boards and reproduced at actual size and in full color--making it the ultimate collector's edition!
Original art reproductions of Usagi Yojimbo issues #65: Usagi and the Tengu ; #74-75: Hokashi ; #93: Chanoyu ; #103-104: The Darkness and the Soul ; #116: The Outlaw, #123: The Death of Lord Hikiji ; #141: T wo Hundred Jizo. Also includes The Artist from Dark Horse Presents #35-36.
"Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is a genuine treasure, and this issue is no exception. In an ideal world, everyone would read Usagi Yojimbo. This is as good a place as any to start making that happen. Check it out. You'll be pleased you did". -- Comic Book Resources
"Stan Sakai is able to spin a web of emotions with few words . . . nothing is lost as each sentence has a meaning and purpose towards the larger narrative. The art is equally gorgeously simple . . . a must read for any comic book fan." - Graphic Policy
Original art reproductions of Usagi Yojimbo issues #65: Usagi and the Tengu ; #74-75: Hokashi ; #93: Chanoyu ; #103-104: The Darkness and the Soul ; #116: The Outlaw, #123: The Death of Lord Hikiji ; #141: T wo Hundred Jizo. Also includes The Artist from Dark Horse Presents #35-36.
"Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is a genuine treasure, and this issue is no exception. In an ideal world, everyone would read Usagi Yojimbo. This is as good a place as any to start making that happen. Check it out. You'll be pleased you did". -- Comic Book Resources
"Stan Sakai is able to spin a web of emotions with few words . . . nothing is lost as each sentence has a meaning and purpose towards the larger narrative. The art is equally gorgeously simple . . . a must read for any comic book fan." - Graphic Policy
256 pages, Hardcover
Published November 22, 2016
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About the author
Stan Sakai
923 books368 followersStan 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.
Born 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. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena.
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. 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 also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959).
Born 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. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena.
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. 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 also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959).
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