Hardcover, 464 pages, measures 8.3 x 11 inches, full color.
Each copy is signed by Eric Nakamura! (most likely will include other signatures of participants)
Please note this is a preorder: Books will ship out late October, early November 2024. The official release date is October 21st.
Note: We are scheduled to have preview copies for SDCC only in late July. This pre-order will not and cannot include those copies.
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In conjunction with the great Drawn & Quarterly, we present Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture, a hardcover curated collection of Giant Robot's best! Jam packed with so many great articles written by + interviews conducted by the passionate and creative Giant Robot contributors throughout the years. A beautiful hardcopy encapsulation of an era that lives on today!
Description from Drawn & Quarterly:
Celebrating the pop culture phenomenon that redefined what it meant to be Asian-American with tributes from Margaret Cho, Randall Park, Jia Tolentino, and more.
Los Angeles, 1994. Two Asian-American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo, Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the very margins of the DIY press and alternative culture, Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Giant Robot even popped right off the page, setting up a restaurant, gallery, and storefronts in LA, as well as galleries and stores in New York and San Francisco. As their influence grew in the 90s and 00s, Giant Robot was eventually invited to the White House by Barack Obama, to speak at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and to curate the GR Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum.Home to a host of unapologetically authentic perspectives bridging the bicultural gap between Asian and Asian-American pop culture, GR had the audacity to print such topics side-by-side, and become a touchstone for generations of artists, musicians, creators, and collectors of all kinds in a pre-social media era. Nowhere else were pieces on civil rights activists running next to articles on skateboarding and Sriracha. Toy collectors, cartoonists, and street style pioneers got as many column inches as Michelle Yeoh, Karen O, James Jean, and Haruki Murakami.
Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine’s sixty-eight issue run alongside never-before-seen photographs, supplementary writing by long-term contributing journalist Claudine Ko, and tributes from now-famous fans who’ve been around since day one. Margaret Cho, Daniel Wu, and Randall Park celebrate Giant Robot’s enduring legacy alongside pioneering pro-skateboarder Peggy Oki, contemporary art giant Takashi Murakami, culinary darling Natasha Pickowicz, and critically acclaimed essayist Jia Tolentino.
Sam Grinberg - Scumburbia Comic (Mega Sized Mall Issue)
Black & white, perfect bound softcover, 88 pages, stand alone issue.
Sam Grinberg introduces his biggest comic yet - Scumburbia the Mega-Sized Mall Issue! Filled with Sam's great art and fun story-telling this is a must have for any comic lover.
Via Sam:
EVERY ISSUE comes with an ART trading card by a different artist!
Two semi-interconnected stories that's set in high school and (you guessed it) - the mall; the local watering hole and central hothouse for the kids in this fictional suburban town. This story is funny, sad, and weird. It's about what friendship means at a vulnerable time in one's life. It's about adolescent perseverance for something that feels like it's the most important thing in the world. It's about a a time when rumors and suburban legends permeate every facet of high school life, and how difficult it can be to navigate between friends and foes. It's goofy, it's funny, and it's personal. It's about you and the kids you remember going to high school with.
*SIGNED!* Felicia Chiao - Sketchbook 5 (Hardcover)
Hardcover, 152 pages, Measures 9 x 11 inches.
We love Felicia Chiao here at Giant Robot, her art being so unique and bursting with character and thoughtful thematics. Her "Sketchbook 5" is a faithful 1:1 reproduction of her personal sketchbook. Featuring 77 beautifully detailed color illustrations complete with Post-it note sketches and a personal handwritten introduction on a bleed sheet, this publication is as close to owning the original as one can get.
Violet Reed - Microconfessions Zine
Fourteen comics about what it's like to live in contemporary society as a so-called functioning adult.
Violet Reed is a designer, illustrator, and comics artist from Portland, OR.
Her comics are regularly featured in the Willamette Week.
Full color, printed on recycled paper in the USA.
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
*SIGNED!* Felicia Chiao - Sketchbook 6 (Hardcover)
Hardcover, 128 pages, Measures 9 x 11 inches.
This edition includes a signed bookplate by Felicia Chiao!
We love Felicia Chiao here at Giant Robot, her art being so unique and bursting with character and thoughtful thematics. Her "Sketchbook 6" is a faithful 1:1 reproduction of her personal sketchbook. Featuring 63 beautifully detailed color illustrations complete with Post-it note sketches and a personal handwritten introduction on a bleed sheet, this publication is as close to owning the original as one can get.
Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki - Roaming
Paperback, 444 pages, measures 6.2 x 8.4 inches
Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city.
Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and a deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meeting in a place they’ve wanted to visit forever: New York City. Tagging along is Dani’s classmate Fiona, a mercurial art student with an opinion on everything. Together, the three cram in as much of the city as possible, gleefully falling into tourist traps, pondering so-called great works of art, sidestepping creeps, and eating lots and lots of pizza (folded in half, of course). Roaming is a ground-breaking graphic novel from the authors behind New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Honor Book This One Summer.