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The Baltimore Comic-con is making Usagi the theme of their hardcover art book this year. We haven't had a contest for awhile, so this is the perfect opportunity.

I've already gotten someone lined up to write the introduction for the next Usagi collection--UY Book 28: Red Scorpion. The first person to correctly post the person's name on this thread will get a copy of the Baltimore book, with a choice of either the regular or variant edition.

I will post a clue to the person's identity each day, times to vary. Each Dojo member can have two guesses. Strategy comes into play here. Should you use one guess hoping you will be correct, and save the other for when you are sure? Should you use both to make quick guesses? Should you wait with both until you're kind of sure who it is?

The first clue is: This person is a male.

I guess I will kick off the contest with a wild guess from left field.... Chris Sparks?

Frank Miller

Both great guesses, but incorrect. Chris was really in the news this year with the Team Cul de Sac book which was a fundraiser for the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. He was nominated for an Eisner, and won the Clampett Humanitarian Award at San Diego. Frank, of course, is a friend and very prominent in our field winning about every award for his outstanding work.

Stan Sakai wrote:The Baltimore Comic-con is making Usagi the theme of their hardcover art book this year.

Can you mention any of the artists contributing to this book?

Gaffey wrote:

Stan Sakai wrote:The Baltimore Comic-con is making Usagi the theme of their hardcover art book this year.

Can you mention any of the artists contributing to this book?

No, I can't, because I don't know myself. David Petersen did say that he had wanted to do an Usagi in armor on horseback, but may decide against it after seeing that I did a similar drawing for the cover.

o.k.

Forgot to take a guess. How about Kazuo Koike.

Another excellent guess, seeing as how Koike-sensei acted as consultant for our recent 47 Ronin mini-series. Unfortunately, no. I'm hoping that Mike will persuade him to write an intro to the collected 47 Ronin book, to be released early 2014.

I will take a wild guess and say Mike Richardson...?

Clue number 2-

This intro writer is older than I am.

Sergio aragones?

Col I just read we get two guesses. My second guess is Stan lee. ( cause besides Stan, I know like three other writers / artists :p and non are older than Stan)

This is going to be tough, because Stan knows so many people....... must put my thinking cap on now

Both Sergio and Stan Lee have already written introductions for me.

Mike Richardson is a good guess, but not this time.

1 forward unsigned (Kim Thompson was the editor)
2 Mark Evanier
3 Robert Asprin
4 Alejandro Jodorowsky
5 Stan Lee
6 Jeff Smith
7 Sergio Aragones
8 William Stout
9 James Robinson
10 Kurt Busiek
11 Lynn Johnston
12 Will Eisner
13 Max Allan Collins
14 Paul Dini
15 Greg Rucka
16 Scott Shaw!
17 Jack Davis
18 Peter Laird
19 Matt Wagner
20 Frederik L. Schodt (in the future he will translate U.Y. into Japanese)
21 John Landis (in the future he will help make the first full length U.Y. movie in 3d)
22 Heidi MacDonald
23 Brian K. Vaughan
24 Charles Solomon
25 Floyd Norman
26 Walter Simonson
27 Geof Darrow
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