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Here's a lovely pastoral landscape from the world of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo #47 and 46. Yep, I got those in the right order...if open up the issues and lay them down, the back and front of #47 go to the left of #46. This isn't Usagi's first encounter with kites:—there's an earlier comic called "A Kite Story" in the Fantagraphics Usagi #20:
I had a Batman kite when I was a tiny bull, but nothing like the wonderful colorful Japanese kites featured on these covers. Here's a great site on the creation, design, and multiple purposes of Japanese kites.
Now stop hanging around staring at a computer screen and go outside and fly one!
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5 comments:
The face on the kite in the second image looks suspiciously like Sergio Aragones.
What I especially like about the covers of #46 and #47 is that you can line them up the other way, and they also fit (well, almost, there's a small gap trimmed off between them). So you could wrap them around a tube and get an endless panel...
Bob, it doesn't quite match up the other way around (believe me, I tried!) If it is intended to do that, then Dark Horse trimmed a bit more from that edge to prevent it from being obvious.
Speaking of circular murals, make sure you tune in next week!
Definitely a cool mural. Two additional bits of information....
1. Dark Horse issued a free promotional poster a few years back featuring the artwork from both covers that is just a little larger in size than the original comics.
2. The original artwork was originally done as a commission for a Usagi Yojimbo fan, a job which took a couple years between when the request was made at a San Diego Comic Con meeting and when it was finally completed.
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