{"id":3449,"date":"2014-04-17T21:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T04:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2014-04-17T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T04:19:08","slug":"for-stan-and-sharon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"For Stan and Sharon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/2014\/01\/dark-horse-to-publish-the-sakai-project-benefit-book\/\">Comic Book Resources<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dark Horse will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Stan Sakai\u2019s Usagi Yojimbo with the release in July of the oversized hardcover benefit book The Sakai Project:\u00a0Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of \u201cUsagi Yojimbo.\u201d <strong>All proceeds will go to Stan and Sharon Sakai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharon Sakai suffers from a debilitating illness that required an extended hospital stay and convalescence, and while she\u2019s now back home, she requires 24-hour care and medications that exceed their insurance coverage. The Comic Art Professional Society, which spearheaded an earlier fundraiser for the Sakais, is working in conjunction with Dark Horse to produce the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got to do a piece for The Sakai Project, which is a real honor. My original art is up for auction right now, and <strong>all of the proceeds from the auction will go to Stan and Sharon<\/strong> as well. Check out the auction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/STAN-SAKAI-AUCTION-Original-JASON-HO-Art-USAGI-YOJIMBO-Pen-Ink-BEAUTIFUL-\/141251610344?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&#038;hash=item20e34086e8\">HERE<\/a>. The auction ends April 27th, but don&#8217;t delay&#8211;bid early, bid often, and spread the word! It&#8217;s for a good cause!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at my original art:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/usagilinesweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 400px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/usagilinesweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s the colored version that will go in the book:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/usagicolorsweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 400px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/usagicolorsweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Comic Book Resources: Dark Horse will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Stan Sakai\u2019s Usagi Yojimbo with the release in July of the oversized hardcover benefit book The Sakai Project:\u00a0Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of \u201cUsagi Yojimbo.\u201d All proceeds will go to Stan and Sharon Sakai. Sharon Sakai suffers from a debilitating illness that required an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}