SHI: SENRYAKU Celebrates 30 Years With Massive Zoop Campaign Featuring Frazetta, Jim Lee, Silvestri, Hughes & More!

Billy Tucci and Crusade Comics bring the landmark graphic novel back in a newly remastered oversized hardcover packed with legendary artwork, rare material and Zoop-exclusive collector rewards beginning August 11!

Thirty years later, Shi: Senryaku is coming back swinging, and Crusade Comics is loading this anniversary celebration with enough comic-book royalty to make collectors start clearing shelf space right now.

The Shi: Senryaku 30th Anniversary Zoop campaign officially launches Tuesday, August 11, bringing Billy Tucci’s landmark project back in a meticulously rescanned and remastered edition featuring artwork from some of the biggest names ever to put pencil, ink or paint to a comic-book page.

👉 SIGN UP FOR THE SHI: SENRYAKU PRELAUNCH PAGE HERE!

Originally conceived by Shi creator Billy Tucci and Gary Cohn, with Cohn handling the writing, Senryaku: The Thirty-Six Stratagems of the Art of War assembled a creative lineup that still looks ridiculous three decades later.

We’re talking Jim Lee, Amanda Conner, Frank Frazetta, Adam Hughes, George Pérez, Jae Lee, Marc Silvestri, Humberto Ramos, Jimmy Palmiotti, Stan Sakai, Joe Quesada, Jeff Smith, Terry Moore, Geof Darrow, Billy Tucci, Dan Jurgens, Joe Jusko, David Mack, Mark Texeira, Julie Bell, Jim Balent and more. Yeah. Read that list again. That’s not hype. That’s the roster.

Thirty years ago, some of the greatest independent and mainstream artists in comics came together to create something wildly ambitious. Rather than having one artist interpret the entire story, Senryaku presented 36 individual stories, each visually interpreted by a different celebrated creator.

At the center of those stories is a young Ana Ishikawa, better known to fans as Shi, learning lessons from her grandfather inspired by the ancient strategies contained within The Thirty-Six Stratagems. That structure gave every artist room to bring a completely different visual language to Ana’s journey while still contributing to one larger narrative.

Now Crusade Comics is going back to the source material and giving that artwork the presentation it deserves.

The newly remastered 240-page oversized hardcover Shi: Senryaku Omnibus has been meticulously rescanned, with more than half of the artwork being published in this form for the first time. The goal is simple: reproduce these pieces as closely as possible to the way their creators originally intended them to be seen. And then there’s the cover.

The omnibus features a special dust jacket showcasing artwork by the legendary Frank Frazetta, immediately putting this thing into serious display-piece territory. The hardcover will also include a sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark and an “Oops” signed-page insert from Billy Tucci, giving longtime Shi fans another little piece of Crusade history tucked inside. But Crusade isn’t stopping with the hardcover.

Zoop backers will have access to additional campaign-exclusive rewards including prints, original artwork and a special 96-page Shi: Senryaku Collector’s Edition featuring an actual metal lenticular cover. Yes, metal. Lenticular. Cover. Collectors just sat up in their chairs. 😂

The anniversary campaign will also offer a very limited 96-page Shi: Senryaku facsimile trade paperback graphic novel, complete with an all-new homage cover by Billy Tucci and another exclusive lenticular metal cover created specifically for the 30th anniversary celebration.

Among the treasures revisited throughout the project are pieces from creators such as Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Smith, whose original Senryaku artwork brought an emotional, soulful interpretation to Shi’s world, alongside unforgettable contributions from superstar creators including Jim Lee and many others.

For longtime Shi readers, this is a chance to revisit one of Crusade Comics’ most ambitious projects in a format built to celebrate the art itself. For newer fans who missed the original release, it’s an opportunity to see what happens when an absolutely stacked generation of comic-book creators gets turned loose on one character, one concept and 36 very different artistic interpretations. And because the book is already printed and ready for fulfillment, Crusade Comics isn’t just pitching a future possibility. The anniversary edition is ready to roll.

The Shi: Senryaku 30th Anniversary campaign launches Tuesday, August 11 on Zoop.

If legendary comic art, oversized hardcovers, Frank Frazetta, Jim Lee, Adam Hughes, Marc Silvestri, George Pérez, Jeff Smith and rare Shi material sound like your particular brand of trouble, you already know what to do.

👉 SIGN UP FOR THE SHI: SENRYAKU 30TH ANNIVERSARY PRELAUNCH PAGE HERE!

Thirty years later, Ana Ishikawa is still bringing the heat.

The Crusade Never Ends.

About Billy Tucci

Inkpot Award recipient and Eisner Award winner Billy Tucci is a cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai saga Shi. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Shi has been printed in five languages and sold more than 3 million comic books. The graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology has earned the prestigious Diamond Comics Gem Award. In addition to his own creations, Billy’s DC Comics’ graphic novel, Sgt. Rock: The Lost Battalion, was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for its depiction of the real-life 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was comprised of the US Army’s segregated Japanese-American soldiers. His earnest retelling of the Christmas story in A Child Is Born has quietly turned into an international blockbuster, winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award.  Billy’s critically acclaimed Miss Fury: Joy Division saw the return of the Golden Age Icon for Dynamite Comics. He recently released Shi: Return of the Warrior, Shi: Haikyo, Shi: Sakura, Shi: Way of the Warrior Omnibus, Shi: Senryaku Omnibus, Zombie-Sama and Ran: Revenge of the Warrior via Kickstarter and Indiegogo uniting backers from over fifty countries and bringing Crusade Comics’ crowdfunding campaign totals to over $1,950,000.00.