I actually had a 21st Century of descendent of Usagi’s planned out. I’m a big fan of mystery, whodunnits and that type of genre. Usagi has been to space, travelled through time… Where haven’t you taken him yet, that you would still like to? And of course, Mirage Studios 16 issues of Usagi, as well as a couple of Space Usagi series. So, we’ve always had a connection… almost from the very start. I was a bit ticked off because if I had known it was going to be published, I would have done a much better drawing. It was just a random drawing, a quick sketch that I did. The first crossover in comic books was a Donatello special that their studio, Mirage, published. It was our third or fourth meeting at Comic-Con - they already had the TV series - and I was talking with Peter Laird and he just turned to me and said, “Do you want to make an Usagi toy?” That was it, as far as merchandising goes. So, we never met until the San Diego Comic-Con. They were in the East coast and I am headquartered out in California. I wrote them letters, they wrote me letters, and we became friends. There weren’t that many so we supported each other.
There was Elfquest, Grendel, Cerebus, of course, and just a couple of others. And at that time there were very few black and white comic books. Stan Sakai: Usagi and the Turtles started off about the same time, in 1984… I think the Turtles were published a few months before Usagi, but basically, 1984.
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