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. 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).
Series
Books
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 16
The Shrouded Moon
2003
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 18
Travels with Jotaro
2004
Usagi Yojimbo
The Green Dragon
2023
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 7
Gen's Story
1996
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 17
Duel at Kitanoji
2002
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 25
Fox Hunt
2011
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo
WhereWhen
2024
Usagi Yojimbo
The Special Edition Integral
2009
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 10
The Brink of Life and Death
1998
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 2
Samurai
1989
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 4
The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy
1997
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 15
Grasscutter II: Journey to Atsuta Shrine
2002
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 13
Grey Shadows
2000
Chibi Usagi
Attack of the Heebie Chibis
2021
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 9
Daisho
1998
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 19
Fathers and Sons
2005
Usagi Yojimbo
Senso
2015
Usagi Yojimbo - A kard
1999
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 11
Seasons
1999
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 24
Return of the Black Soul
2010
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo
2017
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 14
Demon Mask
2001
The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy
2014
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 5
Lone Goat and Kid
1992
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 23
Bridge of Tears
2009
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 6
Circles
1994
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1
The Ronin
1987
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 22
Tomoe's Story
2008
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 20
Glimpses of Death
2006
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 8
Shades of Death
1997
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 3
The Wanderer's Road
1989
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 26
Traitors of the Earth
2012
The Usagi Yojimbo Saga
Legends
2017
The Art of Usagi Yojimbo
2004
Autobiographix
2003
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 27
A Town Called Hell
2013
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 21
The Mother of Mountains
2007
Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 28
Red Scorpion
2014
Usagi Yojimbo
Yokai
2009
