What was the reason that Usagi Yojimbo was released in color?
(The Comics Journal #192 Interview, December 1996) Well, when I first went over to Mirage, it was with the intention of possibly doing a color book, but more probably a black and white book. In fact, the first Space Usagi series, which was the first thing I had published through Mirage, was black and white. But, when Usagi came over, it was just about the time when the entire Mirage line was going to color — well, when I say the entire line, it was just a couple of books, really. Usagi was the first on-going color series for Mirage, and right after that, the Ninja Turtles went to color, and eventually, they got set up so that they could even do the color separation in-house, with their computers. There were a lot of good points, but there were also some drawbacks to that, in that the coloring system was not perfected yet; there were a couple of issues of Usagi — around numbers 11, 12, and 13 – where the reproduction of the lines was really fuzzy. Tom apparently knew what the problem
