Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
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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Oscar Rios visits Dwell on Design that took place at the LA Convention Center. Designer items always looks great in photos. Dwell on Design site.
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Luke Chueh speaks, shows slides, and answers questions for nearly an hour at Giant Robot on Sunday June 24th, 2012. You might have to turn the volume up to hear. The live stream was set up last minute! Video streaming by Ustream
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Yoshitomo Nara supposedly released this image for people to print out in protest of the reactor restart. Download yours here. Nara posted on his Twitter account that basically says the image appeared in his Slash with a Knife book. OK to scan it and print it, just don’t sell it. We’re no sure if this particular file was done by him, but it’s obviously a higher res scan probably from his book.
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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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