Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American Experience

Between 2012 and 2018, Sam Goto drew over 250 multi-paneled Seattle Tomodachi (“friend of Seattle”) comic strips for The North American Post. These comics chronicled the lives and stories of early Japanese settlers and their American-born offspring. Through his work, he captured elements of culture, nostalgia, and history, while infusing his characters — Shigeru Tomo and his alterego Samurai Shigeru — with the samurai values of courage, respect, and continuous improvement and compassion.

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