Stan Sakai with Kevin Eastman (Co-creator of TMNT) at San Diego Comic-Con 2017

Sakai wrote and illustrated the story 'I'm Not in Springfield Anymore!' for Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #7 and illustrated the back cover of Treehouse of Horror #6. The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo presented an exhibit entitled 'Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo' from July 9 through October 30, 2011. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959). He also created a futuristic spinoff series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist ( Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story 'Broken Ritual' is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story 'Return to Adachi Plain' that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo). Sakai became famous with the creation of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. The characters first appeared in Albedo #1 in 1984, and they were subsequently featured in issues of Critters, Grimjack, Amazing Heroes and Furrlough. He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and wrote and illustrated The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy a comic series with a medieval setting, influenced by Sergio Aragonés' Groo the Wanderer. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo.

Stan Sakai ( スタン坂井, Sutan Sakai, born May 25, 1953) is a Japanese-born American cartoonist and comic book creator.

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