“And it was at a San Diego Comic-Con that I was sitting with (Turtles co-creator) Peter Laird, and he said, ‘Would you like your Usagi figure to visit the Turtles?’ and I said, ‘Sure.’ “Usagi and the Turtles started off at the same time, and at that time black and white comics were very rare, and so (the Turtles creators and I) gravitated towards each other, we wrote letters to each other, and we became friends,” Sakai says. The hourlong event, which begins at 1 p.m., is part of the free Oshogatsu Family Festival – Year of the Dog celebration.Ĭhatting by phone from his home studio in Temecula, Sakai - who was hand inking the third in a seven-part “Usagi” story about the early Christians living in Japan when Christianity was forbidden - says the Ninja Turtles-Usagi crossover book will reunite the characters in the comics for the first time in a long while. 31: The Hell Screen” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo.” This Sunday at the Japanese American National Museum, the internationally renowned comic book artist and author behind the anthropomorphized rabbit samurai gives a drawing demonstration and signs his latest two books, “Usagi Yojimbo Vol. Mention the name Stan Sakai, and the adventures of “Usagi Yojimbo” come to mind.
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