Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

Don't take this the wrong way... I have no complaints with Dark Horse Comics in any way. They have and, I'm sure, they will continue to do a fantastic job of publishing and promoting Usagi Yojimbo...

Now that that is said, on to my comment...
I would love to see an issue (or more likely, a special) of Usagi Yojimbo published by Oni Press. Think about it... going just by name, the two should work together like peanut butter and jelly...

The fact that Miyamoto Usagi has already managed to sqeeze himself into a couple issues of Oni Press comics (Oni Double-Feature #11 and Nocturnals: Troll Bridge) proves that he can fit in there. Stan has also contributed a couple of non-Usagi stories and pin-ups there, so he is somewhat aquainted with the staff at Oni Press.

Usagi Yojimbo, much like Sergio Aragones' Groo, is a comic with a history of wandering from one publishing company to another. That is the great thing about collecting creater owned comics, the fact that they are not tied down to one publishing company. It has now been a few years since Usagi hopped over to Radio Comix for the two "Art of" specials. It is the time for a special issue of Usagi Yojimbo published with the Oni Press logo on the cover.

question for Stan... Just what is your relationship with the people at Oni Press? Was Oni ever concidered as a possible choice for publishing Usagi Yojimbo way back when Mirage discontinued their comic division?

Abayo,
Steve

Not certain, but I believe Oni Press wasn't up yet when Stan went to DHC back in '96. If they were, they were probably too small at the time for a big name like UY Oni employs former UY Editor and good friend of the UYD, Jaime Rich, hence the good relationship between them and Stan...

Steve Hubbell wrote: question for Stan... Just what is your relationship with the people at Oni Press? Was Oni ever concidered as a possible choice for publishing Usagi Yojimbo way back when Mirage discontinued their comic division?

Abayo,
Steve

As Todd said, Oni was not around when I was shopping for a publisher. One of the original publishers of Oni was Bob Schrek (sp?) formerly of Dark Horse. Bob is currently at DC. Until very recently, the editor-in-chief was Jamie Rich who also was as DH, editing the Usagi comics. Jamie told me he would have gone to Oni earlier, but Grasscutter was being serialized and he wanted to stick around DH to see how it turned out.

I thought that Jamie Rich had moved from Dark Horse to Oni Press, then again, them editors and such tend to be just names barely glimpsed as we rush to read the comic.

(Trivia question... how come one of the translaters for Lone Wolf and Cub is listed with feminine and masculine names at First Comics and Dark Horse? Are they the same person or differant people?)

OK, I brought something like this up previously, back when I was first awed by how cool Usagi looked in black, white, and orange in the Nocturnals: Troll Bridge book: How about a Usagi Yojimbo Halloween Special done like Troll Bridge in black, white, and orange - published by Oni Press, AND featuring Miyamoto Usagi telling oni stories to some kids???

One of the original publishers of Oni was Bob Schrek (sp?) formerly of Dark Horse.

Any relation to Max Schrek, the notable German film star?

As a matter of fact, I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately. How did you guess?

Steve Hubbell wrote:I thought that Jamie Rich had moved from Dark Horse to Oni Press, then again, them editors and such tend to be just names barely glimpsed as we rush to read the comic.

(OK, I brought something like this up previously, back when I was first awed by how cool Usagi looked in black, white, and orange in the Nocturnals: Troll Bridge book: How about a Usagi Yojimbo Halloween Special done like Troll Bridge in black, white, and orange - published by Oni Press, AND featuring Miyamoto Usagi telling oni stories to some kids???

Yes, Jamie did move from Dark Horse to Oni. In my rush, I didn't make that clear. It did sound like Jamie was at DC. Jamie recently left his editorial spot at Oni to pursue his writing. He wrote a novel a couple of years ago that was quite good. I can't think of the title off hand. There's a copy somewhere in the studio, but, with the thousands of books around, I can't find it at the moment.

Diana and I have talked about a bunch of Usagi project. One of them was a festival series of stories, no third color though.