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Sakai describes how Usagi Yojimbo evolved from human characters into funny animals, explaining that the rabbit design simply felt right and gave the character more personality. He details his dual career as letterer (Groo the Wanderer, the Spider-Man newspaper strip) and as creator of Usagi, whose solo Fantagraphics series is set in feudal Japan and is heavily researched thanks to encouragement from Sergio Aragones. He also discusses the upcoming Usagi Yojimbo Book One trade paperback and a crossover story pairing Usagi with Leonardo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the forthcoming Turtle Soup anthology.