Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

Photos by Joshin Yamada. Chris Cilla, Reklaw, Dylan Williams, Tim Goodyear, and Andrice Arp at the Stumptown Comics Festival in 2007. That’s Andrice Arp at bottom right with our friend and late Dylan Williams at her left. Arp is an indie comics publisher and illustrator. She’s quietly appeared in numerous Giant Robot exhibitions and demands little, but always produces something fun and interesting. She paints meticulously and has a character style that’s all her own. Some of you will recognize her work from the bookmooch.com website. That illustration is below. Recognize her work now?     Her piece in GR2′s Robots exhibition, Robot Kitten sold, however we do stock issues of Mome at the low price of $8 where she contributes her comic work. Arp sells a variety of her work both handcrafted, printed, and painted on etsy as well. This is her page.
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= That’s Dave Stolte at Cut and Paste 2010 from my blog post. Dave Stolte won the international Cut and Paste design championships and is now embarking on his pet project, “Home Bar Basics (and Not-So-Basic)” book that he’s writing and illustrating. Watch for his site that’s upcoming at homebarbasics.com. It’s obvious that Stolte gets his drink on, but at the same time is finding a way into a project. “…this project is an attempt at that, and a melding of lots of things I’m interested in: design, illustration, writing, print, education, service, and booze :)” Stolte heads up his own multi-disciplinary design studio, Wexler of California, and even contributed a piece, Silver Robot to the Robots Exhibition at Giant Robot 2 currently on display.
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Jing Wei lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and her works echo hand made while at the same time, captures interesting compositions and colors. She has an entry into the Giant Robot 2 Robots exhibition that’s untitled and in an edition of 4 below. We have the artists proof (AP) Take a look at it’s specs here. It’s great seeing Jing Wei’s works in it’s final output like below. There’s more to see at her own site: jingweistudio.com then see even more in her shop. Her original works are three color wood block prints!
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