“Usagi Yojimbo” Creator Stan Sakai Wins Inaugural Joe Kubert Storyteller Award

By Staff Reports Dark Horse is thrilled to congratulate our longtime friend and partner Stan Sakai as the first winner of the Joe Kubert Distinguished Storyteller Award presented to the celebrated cartoonist Saturday at Ontario’s Comic Con Revolution. Sakai is best known as the creator of the iconic anthropomorphic rabbit ronin Usagi Yojimbo, a fan-favorite comic series that has delighted […]

Celebrate Spring with the Return of Usagi Yojimbo

By Staff Reports While spring showers usually bring May flowers, they will bring something far more exciting this year: the triumphant return of Stan Sakai and his beloved rabbit ronin in Usagi Yojimbo #145! For the first time since February 2012, Usagi is back in his ongoing series, and there’s no stopping his adventures. Kicking off with a new story […]

Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo Returns With New Series Plus New Softcover and Limited Hardcover Omnibus Editions

By Staff Reports With more than two hundred issues and counting, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is among comics’ most monumental achievements. In celebration of thirty years of the marvelous samurai rabbit saga, Usagi Yojimbo is set to return in an all-new six-issue miniseries, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso, followed by the debut of the Usagi Yojimbo Saga collection! Twenty years in his […]

WonderCon 2014: The Masses, The Exclusives, The Photos

By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Anaheim)- WonderCon day one is now just a memory, and what a memory it is! WonderCon, one of the premiere comic book conventions in the United States, took over the Anaheim Convention Center Friday, and will continue to all the way through Sunday. Everything from comic books, video games, movies, cosplay, anime, manga, art […]

Dark Horse Announces Exclusive WonderCon Variants

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR) —As the pop culture world gears up for this year’s WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, Dark Horse announces two special variant covers for this year’s show! First up, Dark Horse brings an all-new variant cover for a critical hit and fan favorite, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with an exclusive Season Ten first-issue cover by Tomb Raider art director Brian […]

Dark Horse Announces The Sakai Project

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– The most amazing artists in the world have come together to celebrate thirty years of Stan Sakai’s marvelous samurai rabbit saga, Usagi Yojimbo, in a new oversized hardcover benefit book: The Sakai Project: Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of “Usagi Yojimbo”. “It has been an absolute pleasure publishing Stan’s work over the years, and recently collaborating […]

Chopping Block Review: 47 Ronin #1

Review by Nolan P. Smith- Pastrami Nation Writer: Mike Richardson Artist: Stan Sakai Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Website: www.darkhorse.com Stories are one of the greatest things to be passed on by humanity, generation to generation. One of the greatest stories is the legendary tale of the 47 Ronin as they avenge the demise of their disgraced master. It’s one of […]