Giant Robot 61: Ursine Struggle

Advance copies of Giant Robot 61 are on sale at the GR shops, and the mag is slowly working its way onto the shelves of a newsstand or bookstore near you.

Here's a sampling of what's in it:

Philip Lumbang - Meet the painter behind the "polite bear" vandalism around Los Angeles
Whaling Vigilantes - Photographer Adam Lau goes to battle with the Sea Shepherds against Japanese whalers
Gothic & Lolita U.S.A. - Dressing up with Baby, The Stars Shine Bright co-founder Fumiyo Isobe and chief designer Kumiko Uehara on the eve of opening their first boutique in North America
Wizards of Gore - Gore movie god Yoshihiro Nishimura spills his guts on Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Bill Kong - Producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Fearless, House of Flying Daggers, Lust, Caution, and... Blood: The Last Vampire?
Ayako Fujitani - The actress takes toy cameras for a test drive
Alien Art - Daniel Wu investigates the Fortean art of ex-LMF and full-time UFO buff Prodip Leung
Do Ho Suh - Houses, cultures, and worlds collide at LACMA in mind-bending miniature detail
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The band from Brooklyn is usually compared to My Bloody Valentine, but channels Velocity Girl, Teenage Fanclub, and Heavenly, too
Think Plink - Mixel Pixel's Kaia Wong goes to Africa to learn the Mbira
Wok Hmong Us - Sheng Yang co-wrote a cookbook for a culture with no written language
Indie Cinema from India - Supermen of Malegaon vs. The Prisoner
Sion Sono - Cinematic badass.
Saltwater Coffee - From Taiwan to Irvine
A Perfect Day in Cambridge with Damon & Naomi
DIY joysticks for fighting games
All-new videogame review section
Extra-long TV Party
Whew!