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Nikki McClure New Goods We have a handful of new and wonderful products from artist Nikki McClure that includes books, calendars, and journals. Pop! x The Walking Dead Plushes Funko’s Pop! plushes have teamed up with AMC’s Walking Dead! Have Daryl, Rick, or a zombie join you on the couch when the show returns this fall.
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giant robot time: 8.2.13 | art by: theo ellsworth Art Intersections: Asian-Latino Pop-up Museum August 6-7, 2013 Silver Spring, MD, Veteran’s Plaza Check out the Tumblr page. I helped work on this and will be in Washington D.C. for a few days. I hope this sort of newer thinking in art proves to be fun for everyone. I’m glad to have included Ako Castuera, kozyndan, Clement Hanami, Albert Reyes and Ana Serrano in this exhibition. (http://apa.si.edu/asianlatino/) Curators Eric Nakamura, Shizu Saldamando, and Adriel Luis will project artwork onto the public surfaces of Veterans Plaza, telling the visual stories of Asian-Latino cultural connection as a DJ spins Asian-Latino fusion music. Two evenings of Street Culture & Art programming will feature “pop-up” galleries to transform public space from the utilitarian to the expressive. By way of projection, we map visual stories of Asian-Latino shared culture onto the canvas of our walls-not simply bringing art into public space but making public space into art. Eric Nakamura will be in attendance both days (Come say hi!). Uglydoll Uglybuddies As Uglydoll puts it: Everybody needs a buddy. Take home Ugly Charlie & Ket or Ninja Batty & Dave Darinko today! Areaware Micro Cubebot Play with the limbs to create any pose you can imagine. Elastic-band muscles and wooden parts will allow for years of fun! Jeffrey Brown Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations A collection of all-new drawings sweetly illustrates the joys of living with a cat. Hilda Hufalar x GR Handmade Robot Plush The talented Hilda Hufalar handmade these Giant Robot logo plushes special for SDCC 2013! Brian Ralph Cave In A fantastical, wordless voyage through subterranean mazes. Cave In is an all ages adventure story. Taiyo Matsumoto Sunny Vol. 1 The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet. Katsuya Terada – Ten 10 Year Retrospective *Signed* A beautiful retrospective that features his work for manga, novel illustrations, and character designs. David Horvath Uglydoll Creator Signing (Hello Kitty Uglydoll and New Comic “Goin’ Places”) Saturday, August 10, 2 PM David Horvath, creator of Uglydoll will be signing at Giant Robot. The largest size Hello Kitty x Uglydoll plushes sold out at Comic Con and we will be selling the 7″ version. We will also have copies of “Goin’ Places”, the new comic out on Viz Comics. More Info | Facebook Stories – A Group Exhibition August 17 – September 4, 2013 Reception: Saturday, August 17, 6:30–10 PM Giant Robot is proud to present Stories, an art show featuring new works by Edwin Ushiro, Jen Tong, Jeni Yang, Martin Hsu, Sean Chao, and Tessar Lo. The commonality of the artists is simply that they’re operating in a similar art environment although they’re located in different parts of North America. Edwin Ushiro, originally from Hawaii draws sublime imagery that often appear dark in message, yet are at times as light as can be. East Coaster, Jen Tong creates imagery that’s reminiscent of a world that’s something like Miyazaki meeting...
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giant robot time: 8.2.13 | art by: theo ellsworth Art Intersections: Asian-Latino Pop-up Museum August 6-7, 2013 Silver Spring, MD, Veteran’s Plaza Check out the Tumblr page. I helped work on this and will be in Washington D.C. for a few days. I hope this sort of newer thinking in art proves to be fun for everyone. I’m glad to have included Ako Castuera, kozyndan, Clement Hanami, Albert Reyes and Ana Serrano in this exhibition. (http://apa.si.edu/asianlatino/) Curators Eric Nakamura, Shizu Saldamando, and Adriel Luis will project artwork onto the public surfaces of Veterans Plaza, telling the visual stories of Asian-Latino cultural connection as a DJ spins Asian-Latino fusion music. Two evenings of Street Culture & Art programming will feature “pop-up” galleries to transform public space from the utilitarian to the expressive. By way of projection, we map visual stories of Asian-Latino shared culture onto the canvas of our walls-not simply bringing art into public space but making public space into art. Eric Nakamura will be in attendance both days (Come say hi!). Uglydoll Uglybuddies As Uglydoll puts it: Everybody needs a buddy. Take home Ugly Charlie & Ket or Ninja Batty & Dave Darinko today! Areaware Micro Cubebot Play with the limbs to create any pose you can imagine. Elastic-band muscles and wooden parts will allow for years of fun! Jeffrey Brown Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations A collection of all-new drawings sweetly illustrates the joys of living with a cat. Hilda Hufalar x GR Handmade Robot Plush The talented Hilda Hufalar handmade these Giant Robot logo plushes special for SDCC 2013! Brian Ralph Cave In A fantastical, wordless voyage through subterranean mazes. Cave In is an all ages adventure story. Taiyo Matsumoto Sunny Vol. 1 The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet. Katsuya Terada – Ten 10 Year Retrospective *Signed* A beautiful retrospective that features his work for manga, novel illustrations, and character designs. David Horvath Uglydoll Creator Signing (Hello Kitty Uglydoll and New Comic “Goin’ Places”) Saturday, August 10, 2 PM David Horvath, creator of Uglydoll will be signing at Giant Robot. The largest size Hello Kitty x Uglydoll plushes sold out at Comic Con and we will be selling the 7″ version. We will also have copies of “Goin’ Places”, the new comic out on Viz Comics. More Info | Facebook Stories – A Group Exhibition August 17 – September 4, 2013 Reception: Saturday, August 17, 6:30–10 PM Giant Robot is proud to present Stories, an art show featuring new works by Edwin Ushiro, Jen Tong, Jeni Yang, Martin Hsu, Sean Chao, and Tessar Lo. The commonality of the artists is simply that they’re operating in a similar art environment although they’re located in different parts of North America. Edwin Ushiro, originally from Hawaii draws sublime imagery that often appear dark in message, yet are at times as light as can be. East Coaster, Jen Tong creates imagery that’s reminiscent of a world that’s something like Miyazaki meeting...
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giant robot time: 7.26.13 | print by: takashi murakami Theo Ellsworth – Laughing Ghost Nation July 27 – August 14, 2013 Reception: Saturday, July 27, 6:30-10 PM Giant Robot is proud to present Laughing Ghost Nation, an art show featuring new works by Theo Ellsworth. Theo Ellsworth is promising that this is going to be his biggest show ever. That’s a huge promise and we’re ready for him. He now lives in Montana, has an expanded studio and will be in attendance. From Wikipedia: “Ellsworth has published two books, including Capacity and Sleeper Car. A story from Sleeper Car was chosen for The Best American Comics 2010.[1] His work has been described as “a cross between cartooning and art, poetry and the nonsensical ramblings of a writer emerging from a dream.” More Info | Facebook Giant Robot x Tru Protection iPhone Cases 15% of the proceeds goes to Japanese American National Museum. Areaware Micro Cubebots Wooden Cubebots! From a cube to a bot. Matt Furie The Night Riders A nocturnal frog and rat awake at midnight, share a salad of lettuce and bugs, and strike out on an epic dirtbike adventure toward the sunrise. Delfonics Rollbahn Micro Notebook Elastic band secures the notebook. Comes with keychain attachment. Yukinori Dehara Mini Tosa Kenta Vinyl Figure Released along with his latest solo show at our GR2 Gallery. GR Screening: Johnnie To’s Drug War Saturday, August 3 Sundance Sunset Cinema, Los Angeles Master Director Johnnie To’s DRUG WAR Opens August 2nd in LA at Sundance Sunset Cinema! Special event on Saturday night (8/3) hosted by Giant Robot, with prizes from Well Go USA Long considered the master of the Hong Kong crime thriller, Johnnie To’s first mainland production eschews “two guns at once” mayhem in favor of atmosphere and a tightly-wound plot punctuated with impeccably choreographed bursts of violence, making DRUG WAR an intricate puzzle box of a film that ignited a firestorm of controversy in its homeland. Facebook | YouTube Interview with Robert Williams at Comic-Con about the Mr. Bitchin’ documentary By MARTIN WONG Robert Williams is a champion of lowbrow art who has barged past the velvet rope of fine art with wonderfully complex, completely thought out, and masterfully executed oil depictions of Western Civilization gone horribly wrong. >> Comic-Con 2013: Robert Williams, Frank Brunner, William Stout, Paul Pope, Spider-Man, Metallica… By MARTIN WONG After attending for 24 years I still love Comic-Con. Crowds and corporations can’t ruin the annual gathering that is Halloween, Christmas, and the first day of summer for me. >> Comic Con Day 3 (fri) and 4 (sat) By GIANT ROBOT NEWS Pictures of the weekend’s festivities that includes the many signings at the GR booth. >> Comic-Con: From Set up to Day 2 By GIANT ROBOT NEWS The set up wasn’t tough thanks to the great help and the set up looked better than ever. >> SDCC13 Video By GIANT ROBOT NEWS Check out a short clip of what the the...
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giant robot time: 7.26.13 | print by: takashi murakami Theo Ellsworth – Laughing Ghost Nation July 27 – August 14, 2013 Reception: Saturday, July 27, 6:30-10 PM Giant Robot is proud to present Laughing Ghost Nation, an art show featuring new works by Theo Ellsworth. Theo Ellsworth is promising that this is going to be his biggest show ever. That’s a huge promise and we’re ready for him. He now lives in Montana, has an expanded studio and will be in attendance. From Wikipedia: “Ellsworth has published two books, including Capacity and Sleeper Car. A story from Sleeper Car was chosen for The Best American Comics 2010.[1] His work has been described as “a cross between cartooning and art, poetry and the nonsensical ramblings of a writer emerging from a dream.” More Info | Facebook Giant Robot x Tru Protection iPhone Cases 15% of the proceeds goes to Japanese American National Museum. Areaware Micro Cubebots Wooden Cubebots! From a cube to a bot. Matt Furie The Night Riders A nocturnal frog and rat awake at midnight, share a salad of lettuce and bugs, and strike out on an epic dirtbike adventure toward the sunrise. Delfonics Rollbahn Micro Notebook Elastic band secures the notebook. Comes with keychain attachment. Yukinori Dehara Mini Tosa Kenta Vinyl Figure Released along with his latest solo show at our GR2 Gallery. GR Screening: Johnnie To’s Drug War Saturday, August 3 Sundance Sunset Cinema, Los Angeles Master Director Johnnie To’s DRUG WAR Opens August 2nd in LA at Sundance Sunset Cinema! Special event on Saturday night (8/3) hosted by Giant Robot, with prizes from Well Go USA Long considered the master of the Hong Kong crime thriller, Johnnie To’s first mainland production eschews “two guns at once” mayhem in favor of atmosphere and a tightly-wound plot punctuated with impeccably choreographed bursts of violence, making DRUG WAR an intricate puzzle box of a film that ignited a firestorm of controversy in its homeland. Facebook | YouTube Interview with Robert Williams at Comic-Con about the Mr. Bitchin’ documentary By MARTIN WONG Robert Williams is a champion of lowbrow art who has barged past the velvet rope of fine art with wonderfully complex, completely thought out, and masterfully executed oil depictions of Western Civilization gone horribly wrong. >> Comic-Con 2013: Robert Williams, Frank Brunner, William Stout, Paul Pope, Spider-Man, Metallica… By MARTIN WONG After attending for 24 years I still love Comic-Con. Crowds and corporations can’t ruin the annual gathering that is Halloween, Christmas, and the first day of summer for me. >> Comic Con Day 3 (fri) and 4 (sat) By GIANT ROBOT NEWS Pictures of the weekend’s festivities that includes the many signings at the GR booth. >> Comic-Con: From Set up to Day 2 By GIANT ROBOT NEWS The set up wasn’t tough thanks to the great help and the set up looked better than ever. >> SDCC13 Video By GIANT ROBOT NEWS Check out a short clip of what the the...
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