From time to time, Stan Sakai's work inspires people to create art on their own, based on UY. These pages here collect this art and are run by Becky-Chan (or ShadowWing if you prefer).

Note: This area of the Dojo has been recreated as a forum at the UY DojoBoard. Please go there for all the new UY Fan Art and Fiction and to post your own work!

Drawings of UY fans (depicting UY and other characters which Stan Sakai created), published originally in the UY Letter Columns or sent directly to one of the UYD Retainers can be found on the Fan Art page.

Then, we have the stories written by UY fans.

And last but not least, some people want to become even more intimate with UY which we proudly present on the Body Art page.

We are always willing to accept new art which meet the submission guidelines. On that page, you can also find the information where to send new artwork.

History

Okay a few years ago (Feb 1999) I (Becky-Chan) got the brilliant idea of starting a Fan Fiction Archive for Usagi fans, I told Todd (Head of the Usagi Yojimbo Dojo) about my idea and he told me to go with it... a short time later, armed with Paint Shop Pro 5 and a HTML Guidebook, Rabbit Bodyguards was born.

For those of you new to Usagi, his name "Usagi Yojimbo" translates into "Rabbit Bodyguard", hence the inspiration for the title of this archive. Originally it was a section of my personal site The Aerie, but as my interests drifted I re-named that section after I opened this archive.

I got a few submissions in fan fic but not much, finally in March 2000 Todd-San over at the main site asked if I would take over the fan art as well, again I said yes and now armed with Paint Shop Pro 6 and a better knowledge of HTML I overhauled this site and re-opened it.

In 2004, the old Rabbit Bodyguards site was finally merged seamlessly with the rest of the UYD.