Stan Sakai’s creation, the series Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. Usagi Yojimbo has received an American Library Association Award and four Young Adult Library Services Awards. One of the more recent books in the series, Tomoe's Story, was listed on ALA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Stan has also received an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisners, a Harvey, four Spanish Haxturs, and a National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Division Award. Stan is known for the research he does; so much so that Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Oregon, Portland. Stan is published by Dark Horse Comics and Fantagraphics Books. Projects for 2010 will include UY Book 24: Return of the Black Soul, from Dark Horse, and a two-volume hardcover slip-cased collection of the complete Fantagraphics stories in October.

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