#Usagi yojimbo fantagraphics series
Originally, Usagi and other characters in the series were going to be human in stories explicitly modeled after the life of Miyamoto Musashi. ↑ Empire | The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters.Cover gallery for the Usagi Yojimbo (Comic) series.
Discuss Usagi Yojimbo (Comic) on the forums.Usagi was named the thirty-first greatest comic book character by Empire Magazine. Those efforts have been successful enough for the series to be awarded a Parents' Choice Award in 1990 for its educational value through Stan's "skillful weaving of facts and legends into his work." The series also follows the standard traditional Japanese naming convention for all featured characters: their family names followed by their given names.
There are often stories whose purpose is to illustrate various elements of Japanese arts and crafts, such as the fashioning of kites, swords, and pottery. The architecture, clothes, weapons, and other objects are drawn with a faithfulness to the period's style. The stories include many references to Japanese history and Japanese folklore, and sometimes include mythical creatures. The books consist of short stories, and occasionally novel-length stories, with underlying larger plotlines which culminate in long extended story lines. The series is also influenced somewhat by Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés (Sakai is the letterer for that series), but the overall tone of Usagi Yojimbo is typically less comedic. Usagi Yojimbo is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema and has included references to the work of Akira Kurosawa (the title of the series is derived from Kurosawa's 1960 film Yojimbo) and to icons of popular Japanese cinema such as Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi, and Godzilla. Usagi wanders the land on a musha shugyo (warrior's pilgrimage) occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard. Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan (early 17th century), with Anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit Ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Usagi Yojimbo 兎用心棒 or "Rabbit Bodyguard" is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984. Synopsis for Albedo Anthropomorphics Volume 1 Issue 2 "The Goblin of Adachigahara" ]] 🡸 Previous IssueĪppearing in Albedo Anthropomorphics Volume 1 Issue 2 "The Goblin of Adachigahara"
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