Sin City Pin-up # 1 Stan Sakai Usagi Yojimbo

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Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in “Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special” (April, 1991), and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several other stories of variable lengths have followed. The intertwining stories, with frequently recurring characters, take place in Basin City. A movie adaptation of Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, was released on April 1, 2005. A sequel was confirmed by Miller in 2011. Miller has stated that the film will be based primarily on Miller’s original story A Dame to Kill For, and two new stories. However it will be an open storyline so that characters that appeared in the previous film could return.

Stan Sakai (born May 25, 1953 in Kyoto, Japan) is a third-generation Japanese American Cartoonist comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo. Sakai became famous with the creation of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story “Broken Ritual” is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story “Return to Adachi Plain” that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He also created a futuristic spinoff series Space Usagi. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959). The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo presented an exhibit entitled “Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo” from July 9 through October 30, 2011.

Near mint condition.