Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Giant Robot Presents Author Signing and Reading: Beau Sia Beau Sia’s first written works in 7 years. The slam poet star, actor, writer and performer sheds more light on where his mind and spirit are at. This is a book of recent works that explores a new chapter in his career. He’ll read from his latest book, “The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time”. Sunday November 18 November 18, 2012 3 – 4 PM (or later if he’s having too much fun) GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025 http://gr2.net/ For more information about Beau Sia, GR2, or anything else: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 445 9276 Busy? Can’t make it? Live far? Get your book signed. We’re hosting Beau Sia at Giant Robot 2 on Sunday November 18th, and we’ll have him sign a copy and get it to your hands! (Giant Robot – Beau Sia Book)
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It’s rare to see photos of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps in color. It’s an eye opener and you get a different sense of life when you see it in color. Photos by Bill Manbo in color collected in a single book, Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II.
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Thursday July 12, 12-2pm. SDCC Booth 1729 We’ll have Luke Chueh signing his new book, The Art of Luke Chueh Bearing the Unbearable at Giant Robot 7/12 Thursday 12-2pm. We will have free prints with purchase of his book while supplies last! Get there early.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Signing, Dave Kiersh – Afterschool Special Graphic Novel July 8th Sunday 3-5pm GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90025 http://giantrobot.com (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot is proud to host Dave Kiersh, an indie comics hero. Kiersh has been working in the indie comics space for years and has slowly gained a loyal audience. His style is freely drawn and appears effortless and calming. It’s realistic and nostalgic. Afterschool Special is an illustrated romance concerning two teenage outsiders navigating a suburban landscape through nostalgia and personal dilemmas. This 132 page full color perfect bound book includes affectionate nods to abandoned parking lots, late night B-movies and trashy amusement parks. Fully written, illustrated and published by Dave Kiersh. First offset printing and limited to 700 copies. Dave Kiersh was born in 1979. He is also the creator of Dirtbags, Mallchicks and Motorbikes, his first full color book, which was published in 2009 with the assistance of a Xeric Grant. Afterschool Special went to print as the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign. He has been self-publishing his own comics since 1999. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with a shop and gallery in Los Angeles, as well as an online equivalent. Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com
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Luke Chueh’s Swarm Print release. Reserve yours now. Edition 50, signed + numbered. The Luke Chueh hardcover book. We’ll get it signed for you if you order by Sunday at 10am. PST.
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