Usagi Yojimbo Book 29: Two Hundred Jizo is the twenty-ninth graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2015, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo (vol. 3) #139 – 144 and stories from Dark Horse Presents (vol. 2).
Usagi Yojimbo is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. It is set primarily at the beginning of the Edo period of Japanese history and features anthropomorphic animals replacing humans. The main character is a rabbit rōnin, Miyamoto Usagi, whom Sakai based partially on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Usagi wanders the land on a musha shugyō, occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard.
Stan Sakai is a Japanese-born American cartoonist and comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo.
Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon.
The forward for this book reprints the following short stories created by Stan Sakai.
- Stan Talks to Usagi (initially published on the Dark Horse Comics web-site in February 2011)
- Stan Interviews Usagi Part Two (initially published in Usagi Yojimbo Sketchbook #9, dated 2012)
The story Sukanku was initially published in Usagi Yojimbo Sketchbook #3, dated 2016
Two Hundred Jizo was published in trade paperback and limited edition hardcover (limited to 900 signed and numbered copies).
Critters was a funny animal anthology comic book published by Fantagraphics Books from 1985 to 1990 under the editorship of Kim Thompson.
Geofrey "Geof" Darrow is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on Hard Boiled, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which was adapted into an animated television series of the same name, and Shaolin Cowboy.
A comics artist is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.
Demo is a twelve-issue limited series of comic books by writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan, published from 2003–2004 by AiT/Planet Lar. Each issue is an isolated story, but they all revolve around the lives of young people. Originally, the series was intended to focus on young people with supernatural powers—which many of the issues indeed do—but as the year progressed, the stories increasingly focused on people, relationships, and emotions, with the "supernatural" angle quietly deemphasized.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American comic book series published by Mirage Studios, featuring the characters of the same name, with a 30-year run from 1984 to 2014. Conceived by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, it was initially intended as a one-shot, but due to its popularity it became an ongoing series. The comic inspired a franchise of four television series, six feature films, numerous video games, and a wide range of toys and merchandise.
Mike Richardson is an American publisher, writer, and Emmy-winning producer. In 1986, he founded Dark Horse Comics, an award-winning international publishing house located in Milwaukie, Oregon. Richardson is also the founder and President of the Things From Another World retail chain and president of Dark Horse Entertainment, which has developed and produced numerous projects for film and television based on Dark Horse properties or licensed properties.
Hiroshi Hirata is a Japanese manga artist best known in the United States for the samurai manga series Satsuma Gishiden, which is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics. Hirata's works belong to the subset of manga known as "gekiga", and his artwork has a realistic style comparable to Goseki Kojima's work on Lone Wolf and Cub. He's also known for his use of elaborate calligraphy for dialogue, which has been preserved in the American editions of his work.
Diana Schutz is a Canadian-born comic book editor, serving as editor in chief of Comico during its peak years, followed by a 25-year tenure at Dark Horse Comics. Some of the best-known works she has edited are Frank Miller's Sin City and 300, Matt Wagner's Grendel, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, and Paul Chadwick's Concrete. She was known to her letter-column readers as "Auntie Dydie". She is an adjunct instructor of comics history and criticism at Portland Community College.
Maverick is a defunct imprint of Dark Horse Comics, created in 1999 by editor Diana Schutz for creator-owned works, to "provid[e] a home for creator-owned properties—providing a certain identity to those creator-owned labors of love that distinguishes them from Dark Horse's licensed books." The imprint, Dark Horse's second attempt at a creator-owned imprint was relatively short-lived, publishing fewer than fifty issues/titles between 1999 and 2002.
Miyamoto Usagi is a fictional character, who appears in the American comic book Usagi Yojimbo, a Dark Horse Comics book created by Stan Sakai. Usagi is an anthropomorphic rabbit and a ronin now walking the musha shugyo. The character has frequently crossed over with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 28: Red Scorpion is the twenty-eighth graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2014, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #132 – 138.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 27: A Town Called Hell is the twenty-seventh graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2013, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #124 – 131.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 26: Traitors of the Earth is the twenty-sixth graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2012, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #117–123 and stories from Dark Horse Maverick 2001 #1 and MySpace Dark Horse Presents #35.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 25: Fox Hunt is the twenty-fifth graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2011, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #110 – 116 and a story from MySpace Dark Horse Presents #18.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 24: Return of the Black Soul is the twenty-fourth graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2010, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #103–109 and a story from Free Comic Book Day 2009: Star Wars Clone Wars / Dark Horse All Ages #1.
Usagi Yojimbo Book 23: Bridge of Tears is the twenty-third graphic novel in the ongoing Usagi Yojimbo series created by cartoonist Stan Sakai. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2009, collecting stories previously published in Usagi Yojimbo #94 – 102.
