War of the Worlds/Usagi question

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:14 -0700

Stan,

it's been a while since I have posted here and not too sure if any new news was posted regarding this, but, has there been any mention as to when the War of the Worlds story line with Usagi will appear?

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:19 -0700

It is still unscheduled. It may be 2010, at the earliest.

This being Usagi's 25th anniversary, it just made more sense to concentrate and promote the regular Usagi series.

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:30 -0700

The War of the World's story is something we can look forward to reading. It sounds like an interesting idea.

Will Usagi's 25th anniversary be something that is celebrated only at Comic Con or will it be a year long celebration? Are there many plans for it? And will any out of print trades (Barnes and Noble listed a few as out of print) be put back in print?

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:07 -0700

This poster will be given away at all the conventions Dark Horse exhibits at:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/comingup.html#uyps25

UY Book 23 will be out in July:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/comingup.html#uybk23

There will be a new, color story in the Dark Horse Free Comic Book Day giveaway:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/comingup.html#uyfree

And a color story in Dark Horse Presents in the fall. You can read it free here (it's in issue 18):

http://www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents

Fantagraphics will be releasing the Complete Fantagraphics UY two-volume, slip-cased, hard cover edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Usagi-Yojimbo-Fan ... _rhf_p_t_1

And Dark Horse will be publishing a new, water colored hard cover graphic album, UY: Yokai:

http://usagiyojimbo.com/comingup.html#uygn

Dark Horse is reprinting Books 8, 9, and 10, including Story Notes. Fantagraphics is reprinting some of their trades as well. Book 1 should be out in February.

There will be a new print, Sashimono Battle out for Emerald City Convention.

I will also be in four art exhibitions, the most ambitious is The Art of Stan Sakai opening later this month at the Cartoon Art Museum.

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:22 -0700

Wow! What a great list of stuff! Thank you for posting all this.

This is going to be a fun year.

estee · Post by **estee** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:23 -0700

Stan, your killing my wallet, you know that.

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:48 -0700

Stan Sakai wrote:There will be a new print, Sashimono Battle out for Emerald City Convention.

Hey, this is the first time you have mentioned this!

Can you give any more details, like who is producing or publishing it, size, how many are being s/n, etc?

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:07 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Stan Sakai wrote:There will be a new print, Sashimono Battle out for Emerald City Convention.
Hey, this is the first time you have mentioned this!
Can you give any more details, like who is producing or publishing it, size, how many are being s/n, etc?

A friend of mine in Vancouver is printing them. I don't know the size or quantity yet. He is the same person who offered Usagi: Blue, Usagi: Orange, and the Polish print in the US.

This time, the image is a watercolor drawing of Usagi fighting three guys.

Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:10 -0700

Interesting... yeah was going to ask the same question as Steve. I hope you are able to have a few for us Dojo folks to acquire at other conventions Stan

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 23:09 -0700

Stan Sakai wrote:
Steve Hubbell wrote:
Stan Sakai wrote:There will be a new print, Sashimono Battle out for Emerald City Convention.
Hey, this is the first time you have mentioned this!
Can you give any more details, like who is producing or publishing it, size, how many are being s/n, etc?
A friend of mine in Vancouver is printing them. I don't know the size or quantity yet. He is the same person who offered Usagi: Blue, Usagi: Orange, and the Polish print in the US.

This time, the image is a watercolor drawing of Usagi fighting three guys.

Paul Lau? Cool, I liked the previous s/n prints he produced. Great work.

Was this new one listed in the Diamond catalog like the previous ones were? It has been quite a while since I've even looked in an issue of Previews, let alone checked the "prints and posters" section, so I would definitely have missed it if it had been listed.

Funny how everybody has their own "names" to describe the various prints. I understand the descriptive connection for the "Blue" print and "Orange" print (the ones I call "Portrait" and The Duel"), but what is the story behind the "Polish" print? (I have been calling it "Images" because of the inclusion of images of Tomoe, Gen, and Katsuichi Sensei in the background behind Usagi)

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:14 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Paul Lau? Cool, I liked the previous s/n prints he produced. Great work.

Was this new one listed in the Diamond catalog like the previous ones were? It has been quite a while since I've even looked in an issue of Previews, let alone checked the "prints and posters" section, so I would definitely have missed it if it had been listed.

Funny how everybody has their own "names" to describe the various prints. I understand the descriptive connection for the "Blue" print and "Orange" print (the ones I call "Portrait" and The Duel"), but what is the story behind the "Polish" print? (I have been calling it "Images" because of the inclusion of images of Tomoe, Gen, and Katsuichi Sensei in the background behind Usagi)

It has not been listed in Diamond Previews. I don't know if it will be. I leave things like that up to Paul. The others were advertised through Previews, so this one very well might be. I will have it at other conventions I go to this year, though.

The Polish print, or Images, was originally made for the UY calendar (I don't remember for what year). I was doing one new image for each year, and this was the one for that particular year. An image for another year was Snowbunny, which was used as the DH Christmas card the following year as well as stickers which were applied to a DH coffee promotion. Anyway, when my Polish publishers (there were two at the time) wanted to print up large posters to publicize my signing tour of that country in 2004, I suggested that particular piece of art because it had not really been seen much. They made huge posters, I think the largest UY prints to date.

Texcap · Post by **Texcap** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:17 -0700

What a year, and I'm anxiously awaiting the hunt for each of these 25th Anniversary items...if I don't have them pre-ordered already!

On a side note, looking at Stan's avatar, I was curious as to whether or not the Sensei caricature has ever made it into the background of a Usagi story? If not, any plans to one day sneak it in there? Might be a treat for us to stumble upon one day...

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 20:53 -0700

Texcap wrote: On a side note, looking at Stan's avatar, I was curious as to whether or not the Sensei caricature has ever made it into the background of a Usagi story? If not, any plans to one day sneak it in there? Might be a treat for us to stumble upon one day...

It's not quite the same as Stan's avatar, but a little self-caricature does appear on the last page of "The Tea Cup" (in Book 3).

Texcap · Post by **Texcap** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 22:31 -0700

Jet_Jaguar wrote:It's not quite the same as Stan's avatar, but a little self-caricature does appear on the last page of "The Tea Cup" (in Book 3).

Ha, that's great. I'll have to check that out at some point this weekend. Thanks for the info. Jet!

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:22 -0700

Steve Hubbell wrote:
Was this new one listed in the Diamond catalog like the previous ones were? It has been quite a while since I've even looked in an issue of Previews, let alone checked the "prints and posters" section, so I would definitely have missed it if it had been listed.

It will be listed in Previews. There will be a signed and an unsigned edition.