Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition: 2 Volume Hardcover Box Set - Hardcover

Sakai, Stan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160699154X ISBN 13: 9781606991541

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2010

Synopsis

Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is a perennial favorite amongst children, especially boys, and adult fans. Usagi Yojimbo chronicles the action-packed wanderings of a funny-anima; ronin in feudal Japan. In honor of his 25th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing a deluxe slipcase set collecting the seven first Usagi books, including the earliest stories; the origin story, "Samurai"; a full graphic novel; and literally dozens more. This is the complete, definitive Special Edition (our third in a line of repacking our most beloved classics). It will also have extra material, some from the long-out-of-print hardcover editions and some brand new: a complete full-color gallery of the more than 50 Usagi covers from that period (never-before-collected); many preparatory sketches; two "non-canon" Usagi stories by Sakai co-starring the TMNT (with whom Usagi also shared screen time in the TMNTs' TV series); and a long career-spanning interview with Sakai.

About this title

About the Author:

Stan Sakai is a third-generation Japanese American and multiple Eisner-Award-winning cartoonist, creator of the popular and long-running Usagi Yojimbo comic book. (Usagi Yojimbo is a recurring "guest star" in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle universe.) Born in Japan, he grew up in Hawaii and lives in Pasadena, CA.

Review:

“Usaji Yojimbo is one of the most original, innovative and well-executed comic books anywhere to be found.”
- Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men

“Usagi represents a unique fusion of East and West, combining traditional samurai virtues with the flamboyance of Kurosawa’s heroes and the understated authority of a Hollywood frontier marshal.”
- The Los Angeles Times

“Teenagers will easily succumb to Sakai’s clever brand of visual humor.”
- Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 160699154X
• ISBN 13: 9781606991541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1200