Stan Sakai

Stan Sakai is the creator of Usagi Yojimbo, a long-running and delightful funny-animal series at the intersection of Akira Kurosawa movies and Walt Disney cartoons. His clean, crisp style and historically grounded, exciting stories make him one of the preeminent cartoonists for readers young and old.

"Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most original, innovative, well-executed comic books anywhere to be found. Stan’s style of artwork, his crisp incisive writing and his thoroughly professional pacing, all done in a relaxed and absorbing manner, have provided comics with something so rarely seen in this field — a new literary and artistic approach to illustrated storytelling." – Stan Lee

"Sakai is one of the finest storytellers in comics today. I recommend enthusiastically not just Usagi Yojimbo, but the entire Sakai canon." – Comics Buyer's Guide

"There was a time when American cartoonists such as Carl Barks, Jack Cole, and John Stanley were able to create comics that were equally entertaining to children and adults. Nowadays, this breed of cartoonist is an endangered species. Its few remaining charter members includes Stan Sakai." – The Comics Journal

See also:
• Artist Bio
• Blog posts relating to Stan Sakai on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog