General discussion about Usagi Yojimbo, the comics, the stories, the characters, collectibles, TV appearances, Stan Sakai, Space Usagi, Nilson & Hermy, and all other related topics.
I am getting a bit off topic here, but these are some of the items included in the Stan Sakai bibliography linked through the Portland Comic Book Show page.....
Dark Horse:
Ghost in the Shell 1.5 Human-Error Processor #4
Star Wars: Jabba the Hut: The Betrayal #1
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye #1-2 (3 page promo)
Sub Human #1 (promo page)
Tarzan #4, 13, 20 (promo page)
Tarzan/Carson of Venus #4 (promo page)
Blindwolf Studios:
Patrick the Wolf Boy: Christmas Special #2000 (pin-up)
Exhibit A Press:
Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #2 (2 page story)
Mile High Comics wrote:Title: What Say You?
Featuring: Wolff & Byrd; Usagi Yojimbo; Death [Teleute]
Character Appearances: Miyamoto Usagi; Jeff Byrd; Alanna Wolff; Death [Teleute]
Credits: Stan Sakai (letter and speech balloons); Batton Lash (replies to letters); Thomas A. Blakely; Howard Cruse; Link W. Herrman; David Peattie; James Pascoe (all letter writers) (Script), Stan Sakai; Kevin Paul Shaw Broden (Pencils), Stan Sakai; Kevin Paul Shaw Broden (Inks), none (Colors), Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset (text) (Letters).
Fantagraphics:
I Before E #2 (letters, 4 pages)
Lohman Hills Press:
Emma Davenport #7 (2 page story)
Sirius Entertainment:
Akiko #30 (1 page story)
Mile High Comics wrote:Title: The Trilogy Experience "Making Displays"
Featuring: Akiko
Credits: Stan Sakai (Script), Stan Sakai (Pencils).
I went ahead and ordered one copy each of the Wolff & Byrd and the Patrick the Wolf Boy issues from Exhibit A and Blindwolf webpages and the Akiko issue from Mile High's ebay store.
More detailed information on Stan's contributions to the rest of the comics listed above would be appreciated.
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Blindwolf Studios:
Patrick the Wolf Boy: Christmas Special #2000 (pin-up)
Exhibit A Press:
Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #2 (2 page story)
Mile High Comics wrote:Title: What Say You?
Featuring: Wolff & Byrd; Usagi Yojimbo; Death [Teleute]
Character Appearances: Miyamoto Usagi; Jeff Byrd; Alanna Wolff; Death [Teleute]
Lohman Hills Press:
Emma Davenport #7 (2 page story)
Sirius Entertainment:
Akiko #30 (1 page story)
Mile High Comics wrote:Title: The Trilogy Experience "Making Displays"
Featuring: Akiko
Credits: Stan Sakai (Script), Stan Sakai (Pencils).
I went ahead and ordered one copy each of the Wolff & Byrd and the Patrick the Wolf Boy issues from Exhibit A and Blindwolf webpages and the Akiko issue from Mile High's ebay store.
More detailed information on Stan's contributions to the rest of the comics listed above would be appreciated.
Fanfan wrote:
Steve, where have you ordered those comics ?
I ordered the "Patrick the Wolf Boy: Christmas Special 2000" from Blindwolf Studios at http://www.blindwolfstudios.com/
(Still waiting for this one to arrive)
I ordered the "Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #2" from Exhibit A Press at http://www.exhibitapress.com/
(Still waiting for this one to arrive as well)
Definitely the only way to buy from Mile High Comics. They have expensive shipping rates on their regular web-site, but on ebay, they ship for $2.98 priority. They currently have 238 Buy-it-Now Usagi Yojimbo items listed. They are also slowly but surely building a nice bibliographical database of the contents of a lot of the comics listed on their regular web-site.
Speaking of which:
Akiko #30 (Sirius Entertainment) Dec / 1998
This was also published in:
Comics Buyer's Guide #1291(Krause Publications, Inc.) August 14, 1998
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Dark Horse:
Ghost in the Shell 1.5 Human-Error Processor #4
Star Wars: Jabba the Hut: The Betrayal #1
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye #1-2 (3 page promo)
Sub Human #1 (promo page)
Tarzan #4, 13, 20 (promo page)
Tarzan/Carson of Venus #4 (promo page)
Blindwolf Studios:
Patrick the Wolf Boy: Christmas Special #2000 (pin-up)
Exhibit A Press:
Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #2 (2 page story)
Mile High Comics wrote:Title: What Say You?
Featuring: Wolff & Byrd; Usagi Yojimbo; Death [Teleute]
Character Appearances: Miyamoto Usagi; Jeff Byrd; Alanna Wolff; Death [Teleute]
Credits: Stan Sakai (letter and speech balloons); Batton Lash (replies to letters); Thomas A. Blakely; Howard Cruse; Link W. Herrman; David Peattie; James Pascoe (all letter writers) (Script), Stan Sakai; Kevin Paul Shaw Broden (Pencils), Stan Sakai; Kevin Paul Shaw Broden (Inks), none (Colors), Stan Sakai (speech balloons); typeset (text) (Letters).
Fantagraphics:
I Before E #2 (letters, 4 pages)
Lohman Hills Press:
Emma Davenport #7 (2 page story)
I don't remember any of these. I know I did a pin-up for an issue of Wolff and Byrd, but a 4 page story?
I might have done a sketch for Patrick the Wolf Boy.
The Dark Horse stuff--I have no clue.
After you receive the books, let me know what I did.
Credits:
Stan Sakai (Script), Stan Sakai (Pencils), Stan Sakai (Inks),
Indexer notes:
Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo, writes a letter and draws a sketch of Emma.
Dark Horse
Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor #4 (January 2007)
Feature Story: Horsepower
Credits:
? (Script), Stan Sakai; Sergio Aragones (Pencils), Stan Sakai; Sergio Aragones (Inks), typeset (Letters).
Character appearances:
Usagi Yojimbo
Genre: Fact
Indexer notes:
Illustrated invitation to celebrate Dark Horses' 100th issue. Creator credits and indicia information with Dark Horse Logo as a sidebar feature.
Dark Horse
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye #1 (December 1995)
Dear Readers,
Dark Horse Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor #4 (January 2007) is not a 2 page story.
There is an advertisement on the inside of the back page for the 100th DH issue of Usagi Yojimbo.
Best wishes to all.
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is it the same for "Wolff & Byrd", they just requested me extra shipping cost... for just advertising i would not take this one...
I think it is referring to a pin-up I did for Wolff & Byrd. W&B are lawyers who defend monsters, such as Dracula and Frankenstein. My pin-up was a bunch of Japanese monsters wanting to hire the lawyers because they had been beat up by a bunny with a sword.
"What Say You" is the title of their letters page. That issue might have had two single page pin-ups, so they have listed them as a two page story, which is not true.
is it the same for "Wolff & Byrd", they just requested me extra shipping cost... for just advertising i would not take this one...
I think it is referring to a pin-up I did for Wolff & Byrd. W&B are lawyers who defend monsters, such as Dracula and Frankenstein. My pin-up was a bunch of Japanese monsters wanting to hire the lawyers because they had been beat up by a bunny with a sword.
"What Say You" is the title of their letters page. That issue might have had two single page pin-ups, so they have listed them as a two page story, which is not true.
The pin-up you described was in issue #25, the description provided in MileHigh's bibliographical listing for issue #2 suggests a sketch sent in with a letter. Hopefully my copy will arrive monday or tuesday and I can post a scan or give an accurate description of the contents.
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I got in a few of the comics today which I had ordered, but I am still waiting on the Wolff & Byrd issue.
The Star Wars: Jabba the Hut: The Betrayal #1 (February 1996) the ebay seller sent me the wrong Jabba the Hutt comic so I do not know if this is correct or not.
The Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye #1 (December 1995) did, surprisingly, have a 3 page Space Usagi preview along with a 1 page ad.
(Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye #2 is listed as having the Usagi Yojimbo 3 page preview also, so I guess I will check that one out next.)
The Emma Davenport #7 (April 1996) contained a brief letter from Stan along with a sketch of Emma (as described).
I finally got the copy of "Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre #2" from Exhibit A Press.
Dear Batton,
It’s wonderful!
I’ve been a fan of Wolff & Byrd since the first collection of strips was published in 1987, but the new comic book format is even better. It gives you a lot more freedom in your storytelling. It’s intelligent writing with great characters in a marvelous premise—and it’s nice to see that quirky sense of humor is still there.
What’s also nice is that this is a comic book that can be enjoyed by a non-comic book reader. Sharon [my wife], who reads only two comic books regularly— Groo the Wanderer and Usagi Yojimbo—and only because I make her read them, thoroughly enjoyed the first issue. Hopefully books like Wolff & Byrd will bring more readers into the medium. Best wishes always,
Stan Sakai
Pasadena, CA
Thanks, Stan! Stan has a wonderful comic of his own, Usagi Yojimbo, published monthly by Mirage, that’s accessible to the non-comic book reader as well!
So, letters and fan sketches counts as well as stories?
I also sent a letter and drawing that was printed in Felix the Cat comics. The publisher was across the aisle at a San Diego Con. They were really nice to my kids, and sent stuff even after the con. Both Hannah and I sent letters. My drawing was of Felix eating sushi, of course.
