2001 - Ursa Major Award for 'Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book or Strip'.His most famous and critically acclaimed work is Usagi Yojimbo, although he has created or worked on many comics of interest to furries, including Albedo Anthropomorphics, Beauty of the Beasts, Cutey Bunny, Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy, Ninja High School, Space Usagi, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as many well-regarded non-furry comics as Groo The Wanderer, the Sunday strips for the serial Spider-Man, the comic book Shi, and occasional covers for Marvel and Disney comics.Īn award-winning artist, his accolades include multiple Eisner and Haxtur awards, as well as Best Anthropomorphic Comic Book in the Ursa Major Awards five times running for 2001-2005, with a double award in 2004 for The Art of Usagi Yojimbo. I know they should have tails, but giving them tails would make them somehow a bit too animalistic.' Usagi Yojimbo However, one thing that Stan Sakai has never done is drawn a tail on any of his characters he stated that 'I don't know if any of my characters have tails. Although his art style is influenced strongly by traditional Japanese Kemono, he also uses simple line designs like many funny animal cartoons, and his character's faces can go very wild during a 'take', he also includes many realistic traits characters generally are anthropomorphic, and have at least a slight amount of biological plausibility.

Stan Sakai is a long standing member of CAPS. These characters first appeared in Steve Gallacci's Albedo #1 in 1984, and were subsequently featured in issues of Critters, GrimJack, Amazing Heroes and Furrlough. Stan Sakai started his comic book career as a letterer, most notably for Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier's Groo the Wanderer, and as the artist and writer of The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy.

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