Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll need to look closely at these pages to get a better grasp at the mysteries of the process you may have thought this book would answer. There’s no yellowed tape on the edges or holes punched in the margins for print alignment. There are no margin notes with shopping lists from Sakai’s wife to go fetch when he goes to the store on his lunch break. These are not pages with coffee stains and cigarette burns at their edges. You can see every mostly-erased Ames Guide lettering line and - well, Sakai is a pretty clean artist. ![]() It effectively does the same thing as an Artist’s Edition: It reprints Stan Sakai’s original art boards for all the stories at their original size and in full color. It’ll run you $125 and it’s available in stores this Wednesday. Today, I want to review Dark Horse’s “Gallery Edition: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Artist and Other Stories.” It includes six issues of the comic that aren’t consecutive, plus a couple of short stories that fit in, thematically. Previously, I broke down the list of all the companies inspired by IDW’s “Artist’s Edition” format and their attempts to bend over backwards not to rip off the name directly. ![]()
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