'Usagi Yojimbo'.
Stan Sakai was born in 1953 in Tokyo, Japan, grew up on Hawai and settled in California. He is the creator, writer and artist of 'Usagi Yojimbo', the comic book series about a samurai rabbit wandering in an anthropomorphic 17th-century Japan. For this series, Sakai received several awards. The character Usagi proved so popular that he appeared on the animated 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' series, as well as on clothing and toys. Sakai also worked on 'Albedo', 'Critters', 'Donald Duck' and 'Turtle Soup'.
Sakai paid graphic tribute to François Walthéry in the collective homage book 'Natacha. Special 20 Ans' (Marsu Productions, 1990), which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Walthéry's series 'Natacha'.
Interviewed by Tom Lennon for Borderline (2002), film director Alejandro Jodorowsky named Stan Sakai as one of four comic artists he would've loved working together with.
'Usagi Yojimbo'.