Westfield Comics now has a channel on YouTube! If you were to go there now, you’d see some recommendations from the illustrious Westfield staff. We’re excited about these and want to share them with you.
by Roger Ash
This year we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Usagi Yojimbo and I, for one, am darned pleased about that. The fact that a black and white comic starring animals that has gone through five publishers (that I can recall) has made it this long is a testament to the quality of creator Stan Sakai’s work. Let’s think about this for a moment. For 25 years, Sakai has been writing, drawing, and lettering his own comic. That’s impressive and puts him in very rare company (Dave Sim on Cerebus is the only other person I can think of who’s done that). I haven’t been reading Usagi since the beginning, but darn close. I first discovered him in the pages of Fantagraphics’ anthropomorphic anthology, Critters. I’ve been a fan ever since.
We’re celebrating Usagi Yojimbo’s 25th anniversary with a new fan giveaway (we’re also doing a “Crazy Kimono Day” at Westfield HQ but that’s a whole ‘nother deal). One of our loyal Facebook Fans will be chosen at random to win a cool Usagi Yojimbo print featuring the cover to #100 signed by creator Stan Sakai himself. We’re also throwing in a copy of Usagi Yojimbo #100 to sweeten the deal.
It’s time to do yet another one of these year-end lists with me yammering on and on about which comics I liked this year. But: Best? I’m not sure that I’m really qualified to say, since I read such a small percentage of everything published in any given year and I have this annoying tendency (at least in certain circles) to avoid anything even remotely “artsy”. Not that I don’t like art, but I don’t always know what I like, if you know what I mean.
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