Primer tomo (de dos) donde se recopilan los primeros siete volúmenes de Usagi Yojimbo. ¡Casi mil páginas entre los dos tomos de cómics clásicos presentados en su formato original! Los dos tomos incluyen: “Orígenes de Usagi” Los bocetos originales del personaje ¡nunca usados en sus historias! Una galería de cubiertas originales de Usagi a color. Dos delirantes historias protagonizadas por Usagi y las Tortugas Ninja. Una extensa y profunda entrevista con Stan Sakai de 1995. Stan Sakai te enseña “Cómo dibujé a Usagi Yojimbo”. Introducciones de Stan Lee y Stan Sakai. Todo este contenido recopilado en los dos volúmenes de USAGI YOJIMBO:LA COLECCIÓN FANTAGRAPHICS. Usagi Yojimbo es una serie creada en 1984 por Stan Sakai, ganador del premio Eisner, que narra las aventuras de Miyamoto Usagi, un conejo samurái que, tras la muerte de su señor, decide emprender un viaje de aprendizaje como ronin. La obra nos sitúa en un medievo japonés (siglo XVII) poblado de animales antropomórficos. Gatos, perros, rinocerontes, conejos, cerdos, zorros o serpientes, son los protagonistas de esta serie donde la cultura japonesa medieval queda plasmada de manera impecable con precisión y sencillez.
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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).
