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Promotion for the site
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:11 -0700
by Mayhem
In a roundabout way
Many of you know about the Usagi computer game from 1989. Well a mate of mine is writing an article about it for the next issue of Retro Gamer magazine here in the UK. Needless to say you can't talk about the game without talking about the comic.
So a small part of the article will focus on Stan's work, this site and Dark Horse, and give the URL for both. Hopefully some Usagi artwork will also be featured in the layout (it's not up to us writers sadly to choose what gets used). My mate knows a few people at Dark Horse so permission has already been cleared. I have a feeling they might go with the image of Usagi taking on people with the seafood from issue 49 or so
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:25 -0700
by Todd Shogun
Thanks, Mayhem. Anything we can do to promote UY is always a welcome thing!
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:01 -0700
by Mayhem
Issue arrived today and the Usagi article looks good
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:34 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
I can't find an issue for sale here in the USA
It sure does sound like an interesting article from the brief description on their forum .....
Official Feedback for Issue 29
Darran@Retro Gamer wrote:
The Making of… Samurai Warrior
Discover how a samurai rabbit made the courageous leap from the pages of a cult comic book to his very own 8-bit computer game
Anybody have a spare issue they would care to sell?
Abayo
PS
Mayhem, Can you provide any more of a description of the article? (i.e. length of article in pages, description and number of illustrations, etc.)
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 16:20 -0700
by Mayhem
Issue 29 isn't even in the shops here yet, it's only just gone out to subscribers. It should hit the US in a month or so I'd imagine.
Todd will be sent a copy of the issue by myself in due course, so maybe there'll be some scans here (as long as Imagine don't mind!). It's four pages long and uses four pieces of Stan's work (including the big double spread of Chizu escaping after being branded a traitor... that was issue 47 or so?) alongside the text.
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 23:24 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Thanks for the information, Mayhem.
By chance, did you post a message to the Retro Gamers forum concerning the article?
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:21 -0700
by Mayhem
Oh not yet, though I didn't quite need to as I'd already been in contact with my mate who wrote it before he had submitted the piece to Imagine. The article does mention this website in one of the boxouts btw
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:05 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Does that mean Craig G. is your friend and the author of the article?
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 13:30 -0700
by Mayhem
Yep
He was asking me if I had a scan of some original artwork I had for a separate article on a game, and then told me he was doing one on Usagi without knowing how much of a fan of the comics I was heh. So of course I asked if he was using any of Stan's work, if he had permission and whether he was going to mention this site (answers being yes, yes and yes).
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:52 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Below is a reply I recieved when I requested information for ordering a copy of Retro Gamer #29 straight from the publisher. It is a bit cheaper than what the going rate on ebay seems to be.
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