Signed and Sketched

Usagi Yojimbo: Book Six ["Circles"]

Sakai, Stan

Publication: Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 1994. First Edition.

Notes: The sixth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 750 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format).

The volume collects UY nos. 25 to 31 plus a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story from Creatures #38.

Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single artist, spanning 250 comic book issues over four decades. The books have won a number of Eisner and Harvey awards. The Netflix series, Samurai Rabbit, is based on Usagi Yojimbo characters. Sakai (born Sutan Sakai in Kyoto, Japan, in 1953) was raised in Hawaii and lives in California.

180, [2:blank], [1:ad], [1:blank] pages. Foreword by Jeff Smith.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine dust jacket. This is copy 15 of 750, signed by Sakai with an additional drawing on the half-title page.

Item No: #366308

Price: $200