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Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis--Expanded Edition

Illustrated by Stan Sakai, Julie Sakai
Contributions by Emi Fujii
Paperback
$14.99 US
6"W x 9"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Feb 25, 2025 | 184 Pages | 9781506747415
Age 8-10 years | Grades 3-5
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Chibi Usagi and his adorable friends must fight the evil Salamander King to save the village!

Stan Sakai’s enduring rabbit samurai—reimagined as a character in a “Chibi World!” While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi and his friends Chibi Tomoe and Chibi Gen rescue a dogu. The trio find out the dogu’s village has been enslaved by the Salamander King. It’s up to Chibi Usagi and company to rescue the village and free everyone from the reign of the Salamander King once and for all!

A captivating story written and illustrated by Julie Sakai and Stan Sakai and part of Dark Horse’s Dogu Publishing imprint! With colors by Emi Fujii and hand lettering by Julie Sakai, this expanded edition includes the stories “Attack of the Heebie Chibis,” “Attack of the Teenie Titans,” “The Story of Chibi Usagi and the Big Bad Jei,” “Chibi Usagi and the Goblin of Adachi Plain, and “Chibi Tomoe and the Zō Ninja”—as well as all color Chibi Usagi pinups that ran as Usagi Yojimbo comic back covers!
“Sixteenth-century Japan is never so entertaining as in Stan Sakai’s tales of Miyamoto Usagi.”—NPR’s Best Books of 2014
 
“Stan Sakai has successfully brought to American comics a collection of Japanese fables well told in the American style. Usagi Yojimbo is an enduring work. Bravo.”—Will Eisner

“Sakai is a total pro and a consummate craftsman.”—Rolling Stone

“I think Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most original, innovative, well-executed comic books anywhere to be found. Stan's style of artwork, his crisp incisive writing, and his thoroughly professional pacing, all done in a relaxed and absorbed manner, have provided comics with something so rarely seen in this field—a new literary and artistic approach to illustrated storytelling.”—Stan Lee
Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in California with his children, Hannah and Matthew. He received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit living in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. It first appeared in Albedo Comics in 1984. Since then, Usagi has appeared on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and as toys, on clothing, in comic books, and in a series of trade paperback collections. In 1991, Stan created Space Usagi, the adventures of a descendant of the original Usagi, dealing with the samurai in a futuristic setting. Stan is also an award-winning letterer for his work on Sergio Aragonés's Groo: The Wanderer, the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips, as well as for Usagi Yojimbo. He is the recipient of a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonists' Society Division Award. Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Portland. View titles by Stan Sakai

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Chibi Usagi and his adorable friends must fight the evil Salamander King to save the village!

Stan Sakai’s enduring rabbit samurai—reimagined as a character in a “Chibi World!” While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi and his friends Chibi Tomoe and Chibi Gen rescue a dogu. The trio find out the dogu’s village has been enslaved by the Salamander King. It’s up to Chibi Usagi and company to rescue the village and free everyone from the reign of the Salamander King once and for all!

A captivating story written and illustrated by Julie Sakai and Stan Sakai and part of Dark Horse’s Dogu Publishing imprint! With colors by Emi Fujii and hand lettering by Julie Sakai, this expanded edition includes the stories “Attack of the Heebie Chibis,” “Attack of the Teenie Titans,” “The Story of Chibi Usagi and the Big Bad Jei,” “Chibi Usagi and the Goblin of Adachi Plain, and “Chibi Tomoe and the Zō Ninja”—as well as all color Chibi Usagi pinups that ran as Usagi Yojimbo comic back covers!

Praise

“Sixteenth-century Japan is never so entertaining as in Stan Sakai’s tales of Miyamoto Usagi.”—NPR’s Best Books of 2014
 
“Stan Sakai has successfully brought to American comics a collection of Japanese fables well told in the American style. Usagi Yojimbo is an enduring work. Bravo.”—Will Eisner

“Sakai is a total pro and a consummate craftsman.”—Rolling Stone

“I think Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most original, innovative, well-executed comic books anywhere to be found. Stan's style of artwork, his crisp incisive writing, and his thoroughly professional pacing, all done in a relaxed and absorbed manner, have provided comics with something so rarely seen in this field—a new literary and artistic approach to illustrated storytelling.”—Stan Lee

Author

Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in California with his children, Hannah and Matthew. He received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit living in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. It first appeared in Albedo Comics in 1984. Since then, Usagi has appeared on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; and as toys, on clothing, in comic books, and in a series of trade paperback collections. In 1991, Stan created Space Usagi, the adventures of a descendant of the original Usagi, dealing with the samurai in a futuristic setting. Stan is also an award-winning letterer for his work on Sergio Aragonés's Groo: The Wanderer, the Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strips, as well as for Usagi Yojimbo. He is the recipient of a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonists' Society Division Award. Usagi Yojimbo Book 12: Grasscutter was used as a textbook in Japanese history classes at the University of Portland. View titles by Stan Sakai