Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

dear mr.sakai,
i'm a big fan of usagi yojimbo. i was wounding if you could tell me what color your eyes are? i think they might be brown but i want to know because i'm working on a web comic. and i'm making a team like dbz's ginyu force. and i want to make a character base on you. he will be a samurai rabbit. peter laird and kevin eastman in it too. and i was also wounding if mr.Dave garcia will be in the san diego comic con 2004 too. i like to meet him .and one more question is there away to subscribe to your comics by mail order. since i know dark horse doesn't because my comic book store doesn't carry usagi yojimbo anymore. well thank you for your time.

My eyes are brown.

Dave and Monica will most likely be at San Diego. They live nearby, and have been regular San Diego con-goers almost as long as I have been.

DH does not offer subscription services, however there are companies who specializes in them (such as Westfield). I haven't used any of them so I can't really recommend one over the other. Gary Nishimura used to offer them when he owned Gary's Corner Book Store. He still sells comics but I don't know if he's contiuned the mail order. I'll ask him the next time I see him. The good thing about ordering them from Gary is that the books are signed.

Stan, if you are indeed Japanese, surely your eyes should be black

My kids in Japan (schoolkids) all said they had black eyes. I told them they had brown eyes, they wouldn't believe me! They also said my Filipino/American friend had blue eyes (while looking at them!) because she was a foreigner! lol

Heh. Semantics, semantics....our eyes are indeed a very dark brown, not black...

Of course, there still seems to be some discussion as to whether or not aoi is actually blue or green!

lol, too true. I had people tell me the green traffic lights were blue! Apparantly years ago they actually were more of a bluey green, but changed to green. A lot of older people still say 'blue light'. I also understand that there a lot more variations on blue/green and often they are seen as the same colour.

Most of my kids said I had green eyes. They are blue with a little green, but 100% of them said they had black eyes, 'cos that's what Japanese people have! Still, while it was funny the kids said my Filipino/American friend had blue eyes, it's sad that the stereotype of foreigners (ie Americans) is that they all have blue eyes.

Also, ask the kids to draw the sun, and they will invariably colour it red, as opposed to Aussie kids being brought up with yellow Just goes to show . . . something.

Yep. That there is more to culture than color....