Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

Since there is not going to be a new Usagi Yojimbo Sketchbook released for the first time in sixteen years, I decided to play around with making a Usagi Yojimbo Dojo Sketchbook to hold me over until the next official one comes out. I had Kinkos (Fed Ex) print up two copies of this for me, the second copy was in the mail the same day on its way to Stan.







While I love how nice it came out, a lot better than I was expecting from Kinkos, I still want to make a few revisions, correct a slight problem on the cover, add page numbers, etc.... Then I plan on sending it to the people who printed up the 35th Anniversary Usagi Yojimbo Tribute book to have a small batch made. How small? That will be determined by how many people are interested and contact me by PM to inform me of their interest over the next couple weeks.

Abayo,
Steve

Nice, count me in of course!

Hi Readers,
Taisho Steve, will you be changing the cover to read "Usagi Yojimbo Dojo Sketchbook"?
Best wishes to all.
go

go wrote:Hi Readers,
Taisho Steve, will you be changing the cover to read "Usagi Yojimbo Dojo Sketchbook"?
Best wishes to all.
go

That is what it already says. The kanji on the cover read "Dojo"

Yes, I'd be interested. I assume Stan's okay with it being offered?

Since not everyone can read kanji, it would probably be nice if the cover title did have dojo written in English, so as not to confuse people that might see this in the distant future, and think it's an official sketchbook even though it says 'Totally Unauthorized'.

It might also be nice to have a forward by Steve Hubbell explaining the reason behind this printing in regards to covid 19 and 2020 as being the year without any cons, because in 15 years there will be a new generation of readers that have no idea what happened in 2020.

That looks awesome. What a labour of love. Of course I am in.

maichan wrote:Since not everyone can read kanji

I just assumed it said Usagi Yojimbo like the old Dark Horse comic. I didn't even give it a second glance.

Weird, I never noticed that Dark Horse was the only publisher to use the kanji on the cover next to the title.....

Steve;
I had a good laugh at your choice of cover to illustrate your point! "Take that!"

Shadowfax

Shadowfax wrote:Steve;
I had a good laugh at your choice of cover to illustrate your point! "Take that!"

Shadowfax

Actually, it was just the first cover I found already uploaded in my Flickr account....

Steve Hubbell wrote: Weird, I never noticed that Dark Horse was the only publisher to use the kanji on the cover next to the title.....

I had forgotten about that title design. It seems it started with DH issue 46 and ran until the end of the DH issues. I never gave it much thought as to what it even said (兎用心棒 which is "Usagi Yojimbo").

The 2020 Usagi Yojimbo Dojo Sketchbook has been sent to the printer. It will be a one time print run of 25 numbered copies.

These are the Dojo members who have requested copies:

1. Kaimuki
2. gdawz
3. Randy Clute!
4. Gaffey
5. Casey Burns
6. TheBroox
7. david20009
8. maichan
9. Maka
10. Mayhem
11. grusagi
12. eagun
13. Jabba359
14. Mc Duck_Enterprises
15. Steve Hubbell
16. Danny Segura
17, Shadowfax
18. Spam Musubi #7
19. Richard Hubbell
20. Trevis Woods
21. Lawrence Ota
22. Jeff Turnham
23. Josh A Taylor
24. Todd Risk


If your name is not on the list and you are interested in a copy, send me a personal message (PM) here or through Facebook soon.



I will let you know when they have all been accounted for.

Picked these up from the printer today....



Only five copies left unclaimed......

Looking forward to this. Thank you for all your hard work on it.

Can I claim one of the remaining unclaimed???