Softcover, 192 pages, 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
This is the ultimate art collection book of illustrated Japanese fashion, featuring 40 different up and coming Japanese artists. Such fun usage of color and composition, with all different styles, this book is an endless source of inspiration and creativity.
Written in Japanese.
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.