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AE Index Poll Featured

AE Index Poll February 2023

Design. While the bulk of every AE format book is scans of original art, there is the opportunity to make those limited pages of other material eye-catching, immersive and engaging. Of this group, who does it best? This a continuation…

Will Eisner The Centennial Celebration 1917 2017 interior 24

Will Eisner The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017

The legacy that Will Eisner (1917–2005) had on sequential art cannot be overstated—his innovative storytelling, layouts, and art on his newspaper series The Spirit inspired a generation of cartoonists, and his turn toward an acclaimed run of graphic novels beginning in 1978…

Brendan H. Wright talks Gallery Editions

Brendan H. Wright talks Gallery Editions

Over at his own site Wright discusses putting together two Dark Horse Gallery Editions, Robocop Versus The Terminator Gallery Edition and Usagi Yojimbo: Samurai and Other Stories Gallery Edition. Here are some salient quotes. Designer Tina Alessi and I looked…

Usagi Yojimbo: The Artist and Other Stories Gallery Edition

Usagi Yojimbo: The Artist and Other Stories Gallery Edition

Stan Sakai’s masterwork has had many incarnations, but none so stunning and absolute as this, the Usagi Yojimbo Gallery Edition. This second volume includes eight complete, breathtaking stories, scanned from the original artboards and reproduced at actual size and in…

Usagi Yojimbo: Samurai and Other Stories Gallery Edition

Usagi Yojimbo: Samurai and Other Stories Gallery Edition

Hailed as one of the true masterpieces of the comics medium, Usagi Yojimbo gets its first gallery edition, reproducing Stan Sakai’s breathtaking artwork at full size and in living colour. This edition includes the art from the very first Usagi…