Publisher's Synopsis

Created in 1984 as a supporting character for another series, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo has vaulted to the very forefront of iconic modern comics characters and is a perennial favourite amongst both children and adult fans. This special edition, two-volume slipcased set is a true collector's item and contains the first seven Usagi books, covering over 1000 pages of story.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606991541
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: Graphic ed
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 1200
Weight: 3642g
Height: 194mm
Width: 281mm
Spine width: 80mm