Usagi Yojimbo Dojo 25th Anniversary Project
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THE USAGI YOJIMBO DOJO 25th ANNIVERSARY PROJECT
The Usagi Yojimbo Dojo is an internet community of fans who came together initially through the patronizing of the web-site of the same name. That web-site, the Usagi Yojimbo Dojo, was founded in 1996 as a personal web-site of a single fan, but it quickly attracted other fans who helped it grow larger and better, eventually becoming the best Usagi Yojimbo fan page on the internet.
It did not take long for Stan Sakai, creator of the Usagi Yojimbo comics, to start visiting the web-site and interacting with the Dojo members on the forum. Around that time as well, the web-site was dubbed the "official" Usagi Yojimbo web-site, an honor it kept for approximately 20 years, right up until Stan Sakai finally launch his own web-site. The majority of the Usagi Yojmbo Dojo web-site has been converted into Stan Sakai's web-site, leaving just the Usagi Yojimbo Dojoboard forum, which over the years had become the heart and soul of the Dojo web-site, the place were fans from all over the world connected, formed friendships, and celebrated all things Usagi.
The year 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of this dedicated group of fans and the web-site which brought them all together. In celebration of this milestone anniversary, we want to go full circle and bring the essence of the Usagi Yojimbo Dojo back in an old-school fan magazine dedicated to all things Usagi Yojimbo and Stan Sakai. We are looking at producing a limited quantity publication that will be free to fans (just cover postage). The actual quantity will be determined by contributions.
What will contributions be used for? Since the project is being created by fans contributing their time and efforts for free, most, if not all the content and production work will not cost anything. Of course, it would be nice to solicit contributions from professionals in the comic industry if funds permit. That leaves the actual printing and binding expenses charged by the printer, in this case Comix Well Spring of Plymouth, Michigan.
Any contributions left after the printing is completed would be used for shipping complimentary copies to the content contributors, or saved for use on the follow-up issue.
The Usagi Yojimbo Dojo is an internet community of fans who came together initially through the patronizing of the web-site of the same name. That web-site, the Usagi Yojimbo Dojo, was founded in 1996 as a personal web-site of a single fan, but it quickly attracted other fans who helped it grow larger and better, eventually becoming the best Usagi Yojimbo fan page on the internet.
It did not take long for Stan Sakai, creator of the Usagi Yojimbo comics, to start visiting the web-site and interacting with the Dojo members on the forum. Around that time as well, the web-site was dubbed the "official" Usagi Yojimbo web-site, an honor it kept for approximately 20 years, right up until Stan Sakai finally launch his own web-site. The majority of the Usagi Yojmbo Dojo web-site has been converted into Stan Sakai's web-site, leaving just the Usagi Yojimbo Dojoboard forum, which over the years had become the heart and soul of the Dojo web-site, the place were fans from all over the world connected, formed friendships, and celebrated all things Usagi.
The year 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of this dedicated group of fans and the web-site which brought them all together. In celebration of this milestone anniversary, we want to go full circle and bring the essence of the Usagi Yojimbo Dojo back in an old-school fan magazine dedicated to all things Usagi Yojimbo and Stan Sakai. We are looking at producing a limited quantity publication that will be free to fans (just cover postage). The actual quantity will be determined by contributions.
What will contributions be used for? Since the project is being created by fans contributing their time and efforts for free, most, if not all the content and production work will not cost anything. Of course, it would be nice to solicit contributions from professionals in the comic industry if funds permit. That leaves the actual printing and binding expenses charged by the printer, in this case Comix Well Spring of Plymouth, Michigan.
Any contributions left after the printing is completed would be used for shipping complimentary copies to the content contributors, or saved for use on the follow-up issue.
Organizer
Steve Hubbell
Organizer
Kalamazoo, MI
