Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen

The Heroes in a Half Shell and the Rabbit Ronin join forces once again in this new adventure from beloved Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pursue the evil cyborg genius Dr. WhereWhen through a time portal…and emerge in feudal Japan! There, they encounter Usagi, 20 years into the samurai’s future but decades after the arrival of Dr. WhereWhen…who has already carved himself a fiefdom using mechanized clockwork samurai robots…with the intention of conquering both the past and current timelines!

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s TMNT first crossed over with Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo in 1986, and since then, their encounters have extended to numerous comic adventures and multiple animated series. This newest tale deepens the connection between the anthropomorphic animals as they struggle to save both their worlds from a sinister villain the likes of which none of the heroes have seen before!

Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, and grew up in Hawaii. Stan received a fine arts degree from the University of Hawaii and furthered his studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Stan’s creation, Usagi Yojimbo, first appeared in the comic book Albedo Anthropomorphics #2 in 1984. Since then, Usagi has been on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and has been made into toys, seen on clothing, and his stories have been collected in more than three dozen graphic novels and translated into 16 languages.

Stan is the recipient of a Parents’ Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, an American Library Association Award, two Harvey Awards, five Spanish Haxturs, eight Will Eisner Awards, and two National Cartoonists Society Silver Reubens. In 2011, Stan received the Cultural Ambassador Award from the Japanese American National Museum for spreading Japanese history and culture through his stories. Stan was awarded the inaugural Joe Kubert Excellence in Storytelling Award in 2018 and was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2020. Stan, in partnership with Gaumont USA, has developed an Usagi animated series, Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles, now streaming on Netflix.