Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, and grew up in Hawaii. Sakai
received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and
furthered his studies at the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, California.
Sakia's creation, Usagi Yojimbo, first appeared in the comic book
Albedo Anthropomorphics #2 in 1984. Since then, Usagi has been on
television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and has
been made into toys, seen on clothing, and his stories have been
collected in more than three dozen graphic novels and translated
into 16 languages.
Sakai is the recipient of a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award,
an American Library Association Award, two Harvey Awards, five
Spanish Haxturs, eight Will Eisner Awards, and two National
Cartoonists Society Silver Reubens. In 2011, Stan received the
Cultural Ambassador Award from the Japanese American National
Museum for spreading Japanese history and culture through his
stories. Sakai was awarded the inaugural Joe Kubert Excellence in
Storytelling Award in 2018 and was inducted into the Will Eisner
Hall of Fame in 2020. Sakai, in partnership with Gaumont USA, is
currently developing an Usagi animated series for Netflix.
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