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Katsuya Terada x Giant Robot - I Love Coffee I Love Ninja Zine + Sticker
Softcover, 24 pages, Measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full color. Includes 3x3" sticker.
Released along with Katsuya Terada's Rakugaking solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this beautifully printed art zine.
I Love Coffee I Love Ninja includes various drawings and paintings by the artist expressing his love and/or neurotic addiction to the magical beverage. What caffeine junky can't relate to that joy?
Excerpt from the forward written by Katsuya Terada:
"Mornings, I wake up.
I don't feel like working at all.
There's tons of shit that needs to be done, but I don't want to do it.
This is when I throw myself into grinding beans..."
Giant Robot - Issue #20
(full size 88p.) Yoshitomo Nara cover: When Humans Attack.
Topics include: Yoshitomo Nara's Kids, Top 25 Asian Serial Killers, Faces of Death, The Best Kung Fu Movie Ever, Greasy Asian Junk Food, Trainhopping, Asian Henchmen, Giant Robot Awards, Destroying America, Indonesian Spirits, Japanese Wrestlers, Cute Pandas, Big Melons, Maggie Cheung, Jets to Brazil, and Clown Time.
*phew*
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
This landmark publication accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s paintings. Although other volumes on Murakami in English address the crossover between his fine art and commercial output, this book presents the first serious consideration of his work as a painter. It provides a sustained consideration of the artist’s relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, eastern and western, commercial and high art. Lavishly illustrated with large-scale images of works that span his art student days to now—many reproduced together for the first time—the book contextualizes Murakami’s output in postwar Japan with essays that situate the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting Nihonga, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. The volume includes essays by curator Michael Darling, Michael Dylan Foster, Chelsea Foxwell, Reuben Keehan, and Akira Mizuta Lippit, as well as a biography and exhibition history, selected bibliography, and index.
More Heroes & Heroines: Japanese Video Game + Animation Illustration
Softcover, 208 pages, measures 7.5 x 10.2 inches.
Following former best selling title; Heroes and Heroines, this title showcases the most trendy and updated illustrations by about 60 prominent character designers covering both video game and animation. Featuring a bilingual interview with Shiro Miwa, a leading comic artist who is also a character designer of 7th Dragon 2020 (cover art).
Featured animations and video games design from these titles: Girls and Panzer; Kantai Collection; Kill la Kill; Attack on Titan; METAL GEAR SOLID V; and much more.
Text in Japanese and English.
Jillian Tamaki - Boundless
Paperback, 248 pages, measures 7 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
The cartoonist of This One Summer and SuperMutant Magic Academyexplores the virtual and IRL world of contemporary women via a lens both surreal and wry
Jenny becomes obsessed with a strange "mirror Facebook," which presents an alternate, possibly better, version of herself. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser, and as she shrinks away to nothingness, the world around her recedes as well. The animals of the city briefly open their minds to us, and we see the world as they do. A mysterious music file surfaces on the internet and forms the basis of a utopian society–or is it a cult?
Boundless is at once fantastical and realist, playfully hinting at possible transcendence: from one’s culture, one’s relationship, oneself. This collection of short stories is a showcase for the masterful blend of emotion and humour of award-winning cartoonist Jillian Tamaki.
Star Wars Widevision: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Volume One
Hardcover, 548 pages, measures 6 x 9 inches.
Following the successful release of multi-series trading cards based on the originalStar Wars film series (1977–83), Topps released the first volume of its Widevision series in 1995. These special cards were just as tall as the standard Topps trading cards but twice as long—a format that better reflected the widescreen dimensions of the films. Now, for the first time, every card, as well as rare promotional cards and limited edition chase cards, are reprinted in one deluxe collection. This new volume includes the fronts and backs of each card, showcasing original storyboards, fun facts, filmmaker quotes, behind-the-scenes photos, and exclusive commentary by George Lucas.
Also included are four bonus cards, rare promotional images, an introduction by Gary Gerani, the original editor of the Star Wars Topps series, and an afterword by Star Wars collector Stephen J. Sansweet.
hanayo, Hajime Sawatari - Tenko (Limited Edition)
Hardcover, 6" x 8.25", 368 pages, 308 images, Limited edition of 1500 .
Eric Nakamura - From The Pit 2 Photo Zine
26 pages, measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
From the vault, comes the second installment of "From the Pit" photo zine.
Before Giant Robot, owner and founder Eric Nakamura shot seminal late 80's / early 90's punk rock bands. Photo's capture performers in their early days. Beautifully shot; history was captured.
Features photos of such bands and performers as Firehouse, "5,6,7,8's," The Dwarves, Soundgarden, L&, The Go-Nuts, Rocket From the Crypt, Butthole Surfers and more! Forward by Eric.
Eric Nakamura - From The Pit Photo Zine
26 pages, measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
Before Giant Robot, owner and founder Eric Nakamura shot seminal late 80's / early 90's punk rock bands. Photo's capture performers in their early days. Beautifully shot; history was captured. Features photos of such bands and performers as Kurt Cobain, Sonic Youth, Courtney Love, Beck, Public Enemy, Jawbreaker, L7, Firehose, Mudhoney, Unwound and more! Each photo has a little commentary by Eric. The cover photo wraps around the zine to the back.
Jillian Tamaki - SuperMutant Magic Academy
Paperback, 224 pages, measures 6.3 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches
The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer--moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which she has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Tamaki deftly plays superhero and high-school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns.
Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Tamaki's jokes are precise and devastating.
SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips.
Takashi Murakami - I Love Prints And So I Make Them Catalog
Giant Robot - Issue 3 Zine (Re-print)
Zine measures 8.5 x 11 inches, 70 pages, Black & White.
Giant Robot history reprinted! Before it was a magazine, Giant Robot was a zine. And Issue 3 is back 20 years later! Culture that is still relevant and interesting to this day. Re-discover it all! Articles on:
Katsuya Terada Hot Pot Girls II Zine
Oishinbo: Japanese Cuisine - A la Carte - Sake
Katsuya Terada - Hot Pot Girls Zine
Oishinbo: Japanese Cuisine - The Joy of Rice
Measures 8.25" x 6", 276 pages, softcover, Black & White.
A quest for the ultimate menu! R to L (Japanese Style).
"The Joy of Rice" In this volume of Oishinbo, Yamaoka and company look into the single most essential food in Japanese cuisine: rice. Cultivated for millennia, a staple meal in itself and the basis of countless other dishes, rice is an important component not only of the Japanese kitchen but also of Japanese culture. When Yamaoka is asked by TMzai's head chef for help in coming up with a new rice dish, what starts out as a simple culinary request rapidly grows into a disquisition into the past, present and future of Japan's food culture. As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the TMzai News have commissioned the creation of the "Ultimate Menu," a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Yamaoka ShirM, an inveterate cynic who possesses no initiative--but also an incredibly refined palate and an encyclopedic knowledge of food. Each volume of Oishinbo follows Yamaoka and his colleagues through another adventure on their quest for the Ultimate Menu. Now, the highlights from the hundred-plus volume series have been selected and compiled into A la Carte editions: bite-sized chunks of story arranged by subject that add up to a full-course manga meal!
Julie Doucet - Elle Humour
Giant Robot - Issue #16
The Martial Arts & Leisure Issue. Cover with Ming Tran.
An oldie but goodie! Tura Santana Returns, Stick Fighters Revenge, Parappa Raps, Ming Tran, Shaolin Kung Fu, Tae-Bo Fever, Matrix Mahem and much much more!
Christopher Doyle - Buenos Aires
Hardcover, 6" x 8.25", 220pp, Text in English and Japanese
Some copies have some minor imperfections to the cover to some degree.
Buenos Aries is sort of a visual journal of acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (2046, Hero, Infernal Affairs). The book documents his everday experiences on the set of Buenos Aries, a film that recreates the experiences of director Wong Kar-Wai and his crew while in Argentina in 1996. Each page is in entry penned by Doyle himself which is accompanied by incredible photographs of behind the scene moments on set and various locations in Argentina.