According to the Dark Horse Comics blog, this past weekend, Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai was named the 2011 Cultural Ambassador by the Japanese American National Museum. The Japanese American National Museum is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to sharing the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The founding of the Museum [...]

Followers of this site are probably aware of the fact that my reviews tend to be 1 -2 K word affairs, that pull the comic apart and critique ever aspect. Not everyone’s cup of tea, I know, but it’s just the way I write, and lots of people tell me they like my review style, [...]

I just caught this over on the Dark Horse blog, and had to share it here, because Usagi Yojimbo is one of the best comics on the shelves, and you should all by buying it! Dark Horse asked Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo, to put together an illustrated interview with everyone’s favorite Rabbit Ronin. [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again, when every comic site begins compiling lists of their favourite releases of the year. So I thought it was high time that I started to compile my list, it being the penultimate day of the year, and all. I thought I would start by putting together a list [...]

Dark Horse have informed Hypergeek that they are readying a new Usagi Yojimbo plush toy for release in the spring! I need one of these. Sooooo cute! The plush will be available to order from the January issue of Diamond’s Previews, with an on-sale date of May 2010. Press release: THE RABBIT RONIN FINALLY GETS [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in November 2009. Diamond provided their own indy charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of [...]

Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their November 2009 Direct Market sales figures. If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated: Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from [...]

Diamond Distribution just supplied Hypergeek with data for the top publishers and products for November 2009. If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated: Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of [...]

A few days ago, Hypergeek revealed that Dark Horse Comics were collaborating with L.A. based clothing brand, The Hundreds (http://www.thehundreds.com/), to produce some sort of Usagi Yojimbo related apparel. Now, Dark Horse have sent Hypergeek a press release with full details of this collaboration: Dark Horse Teams with The Hundreds to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary [...]

Dark Horse Comics were teasing on their Twitter account about an upcoming collaboration between two brands, one of which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Your humble host correctly guessed that the Dark Horse published property was Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo. Dark Horse then directed me to the site http://www.thehundreds.com/, home to Los Angeles based [...]