This is an original hand drawn shikishi by the artist Yoji Shinkawa featuring Solid Snake. This was drawn in 1998, the same year Metal Gear Solid was released for the original PlayStation. 

It is signed also by both Yoji Shinkawa and Hideo Kojima, and features a hand drawn Metal Gear Solid logo as seen in early concept artwork, post cards, and promotional material from that era. 

Another wonderfully obscure piece of Samurai Pizza Cats / Kyatto Ninden Teyandee history has been preserved! 🎉

Retro Reprints has completed its restoration of the 1990 Seika coloring book, and the remastered digital edition is now available for download as a PDF.

The book features plenty of vintage artwork from the original series, making it a fun little time capsule for fans and collectors, as well as a potentially useful source of character and artwork reference material. And unlike an increasingly difficult-to-find physical copy, you can actually enjoy this one without treating every page turn like delicate archaeological fieldwork. 😂

The digital edition is currently available for just $3 USD, with proceeds helping Retro Reprints recover and preserve additional vintage books.

🔗 Get the digital edition here:

Samurai Pizza Cats Coloring Book (1990, Seika) at Retro Reprints⁠

I’ve already picked up my own digital copy! :3 ❤

One important note: out of respect for the work Retro Reprints has put into acquiring, restoring and preserving this material, I will NOT be redistributing my copy or making the PDF available for free. 🚫

At only $3, please support Retro Reprints directly if you’d like a copy. Doing so gets you the book while also helping them continue preserving obscure material like this for everyone to enjoy.

Another tiny piece of Pizza Cats history rescued from obscurity. 🥰📚🍕🐱

Arsham is one of my favorite artists right now. Him and Sean Wotherspoon both have some crazy stuff 💎