Stan Sakai: Usagi Yojimbo Creator Interview, Sketch

[@Vebinz]

What a wonderful sweet humble man, amazing genius of comics.

[@Gogenericgirl]

Stan Sakai is amazing. He is so sweet, humble and good-natured in person. The mark of not only a great artist is a great human who is nice even to people who have never heard of his work. I named my pet rabbit (albino) after Yojimbo. He's gone now, but the comics will always remain. Thanks for posting!

[@821lancevance]

if this channel had more of this and less stupid countdowns then I'll be a subscriber

[@MyAce8]

unfortunately this type of stuff doesn't get many views. It's no ones fault but our own that the internet is filled with shit.

[@821lancevance]

Ace shinigami very true

[@kansarachawlcoophousingsoc5474]

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[@alvinjones670]

Japan has the best games I can feel what u mean!!!

[@celestialsannin]

I love Stan Sakais Usagi Yojimbo ever since I was in Intermediate school. I admire his art and story telling.

[@helghastslayah1367]

Man is a legend. Deserves every bit of praise he's gotten. Just the kind of guy who I can relate to. Keep it up dude.

[@supermegapizzaguy808]

He seems so nice. I'm definitely going to pick some of those.

[@futileEffort]

It's nice to see how humble Stan comes across, amazing artist. Been subscribing to Usagi Yojimbo since ~95, pretty much the only comic I still regularly read.

[@nihar2009]

Love his Usagi series . Such a treat and craftsmanship. Tezuka influence is so clearly and delightfully there .

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I'm currently writing my own super hero/ super villain stories, trying to make a whole universe of the stories. It's not easy lol.

[@theyakkoman]

This man is one of my personal favorite comic book writer/artist and also a big hero of mine. Thank you for this! Love you Stan/Greetings from Sweden!

[@jarosbodytko6462]

I'm 35, grew up on the 8O's Turtles cartoon and am a huge Turtles fan so of course I knew about Usagi. It took me until the Usagi 3 part episode of the Nick show to finally pick up the first compilation book of the Dark Horse run and all I can say is: I'm deeply ashamed I've never discovered this comic sooner. This is truly a treasure. I love all kinds of stuff: manga, superhero comics, and living in Belgium I also grew up on Tintin and The Smurfs of course, so my taste in comics has a pretty wide range. Usagi Yojimbo however is one of the very few comics that feels like more than just a comic book. And in my opinion the only comic where the stories seem to progress naturally instead of being a scripted story that goes from A to B to C. Every story surprises me, makes me laugh or tear up, and I have yet to discover the majority of the Dark Horse books and the Fantagraphics run. Stan Sakai belongs right up there with Hergé, Peyo, Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Floyd Gottfredson and yes, Stan Lee as well. So, long story short: Thank you Stan Sakai for giving the world Usagi Yojimbo.

[@Morgil27]

I got a box set of the first seven volumes of this for this last Christmas, and my god is it amazing. I'm about halfway through, so far, and I'm finding it hard to put down.

[@ulose5909]

What was the box set called? I have tried to find whole sets and can’t seem too find any

[@Morgil27]

@@ulose5909 Last I checked, it's out of print now. That was five years ago, after all.

[@thetimberwolf100]

His material should've been a show

[@PyroclasmAnimations]

Pretty awesome! Up until now I always thought Usagi Yojimbo was just a character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I'll look forward to checking out the comics and his other appearances.

[@JohnSmith-lp1kd]

Wow seems really down to earth he’s been drawing writing plotting this book for almost 40 years amazing!

[@TICSTUDIOSLLC]

I didn't know WatchMojo did interviews. This was really nice to watch, I just found out about Usagi Yojimbo and it looks like a story I would really love. Stan seems like a great guy and cartoonist!

[@goetia13]

Such a seemingly simple style - the art, the stories - but really resonates. Certain landscape scenes so beautifully done, poignant bittersweet storylines. I read the entire run every summer...

[@samuelraji8343]

I'll buy atleast one omnibus or a couple of volumes. It's amazing. Japan is missing out.

[@VoltigeurGT]

"...there's someone in Indonesia, Poland or Czech Republic reading my books..." Well, Greetings from Czech Republic! I really do enjoy Usagi very much so thanks Stan!

[@otiotaviano6678]

potesilo 😁 i am a new superfan from czech republic since this christmas as well

[@RasVoja]

Love flowing still for Usagi and its great creator! Glad to see Dark Horse behind!

[@MasterChief0000117]

man, I wish they made a cartoon series of Usagi, I would SOOOOOOOOO watch it

[@IronGums]

Sergio Aragonés. He's the creator of Groo The Wanderer.

[@Zatracenec]

Great artist and awesome comics.

[@jonathanronaldo5920]

of course there's someone in Indonesia who read your masterpiece sensei!! (me for example), such a fine balance between east and west drawings, effortlessly done!

[@muhammadalifto8076]

It's so nice that i'm not the only one who enjoy Stan Sakai's work. I'm also Indonesian as well. Nice to see you 😉

[@alvinjones670]

I GREW UP READING HIS COMIC, MAGNIFICENT STORIES AND ART!!!PROPS!!!👏👏👏👊👊👊

[@CCharmanderK]

You totally should! Usagi Yojimbo is some of the best western graphic novel content ever created. It's steeped in rich Japanese folklore and culture, which makes it a unique experience not unlike reading a manga, even though many of the stylistic choices and storytelling methods are rather Western. I suggest beginning with the Dark Horse bound publications "Grasscutter", "Grasscutter II", "Seasons" and "Demon Mask". Those are what got me into the series, and I enjoyed them immensely.

[@koolaid5684]

STAN U ROCK FROM A USAGI FAN!

[@violindeer1648]

I would love to meet him who else would

[@anthonydezii8493]

He is a very nice and approachable man to meet. he goes to many conventions around the US every summer. I have meet him twice at conventions on the east coast. He lives in Hawaii, so he travels a lot.

[@staticmunk7777]

i lvoe the usag yojimbo graphic novels i got my first finally got lucky and got 24 the mother of mountains the research is very thorough and true facts is stunning highly recommend anyone who likes adventure to read usagi yojumbo it is way more than a comic.it is an actual archive of history

[@GhostOfSide3]

What a totally cool guy.

[@THECLARENCES]

Stan, Usagi Yojimbo and WatchMojo rules! xoxo The Clarences (robert, erin & leslie)

[@Sonic2332]

Speaking of gaming, I would love to see a current gen level game of Usagi. Maybe by Platinum or Atlus. That would be awesome because all we have at the moment is an app game.

[@marinoguiang7295]

ARE THERE GOING TO BE MORE USAGI COMICS IN THE NEAR FUTURE ,...

[@MasterChief0000117]

:O ... he writes WoW comics... mind blown

[@user-nf7in4wz5z]

Привет стен скаи

[@MasterChief0000117]

lol yeah

[@Camreeno]

Who is the person he names at 1:02? Something like "Sojarob Gomez"?

[@tortugasninja2K3]

Sergio Aragonés

[@fwwaller]

whoa whoa whoa whoa, wait a second, let me get this straight, you've got a comic, written by a japanese american artist/writer, about a talking samurai rabbit, which hasn't been translated to japanese????

[@MasterChief0000117]

have u ever seen Japanese comic??? WAAAAYYYY different from western comics

[@CCharmanderK]

And yet manga is very popular here in the West. We're just wondering "why can't it go the other way around, American comics being popular in Japan?"

[@keenanerickson9892]

Captain America wouldn't relate in Japan

[@gamerbear84]

Answering waaay late, but a lot of it I believe is less a question of the material not speaking to a Japanese person with an interest in manga, but rather that the local comic industry is just SO strong that there's too little space in the market for it to feel worth it for companies to try and compete there.