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Paperback with cover sleeve, Measures approximately 7.8 x 1 x 8 inches, 192 pages.

Ilya Kuvshinov is an illustrator and comic artist from Russia, based in Japan. In this first collection of his work, readers will find full-color, perfectly rendered illustrations of adorable girls with large, manga-influenced eyes. Backdrops and environments referencing Japan are illustrated with just as much detail and love. Momentary also features sketches interspersed, showcasing his ability to capture movement with his first pen strokes. Written commentary (in both Japanese and English) from the artist himself also accompanies these beautiful full-color pages.

Softcover, 24 pages, Measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full color. Includes a 2.8 x 3.7" vinyl sticker (girl with green hat)

Released along with Katsuya Terada's Dragon Girl solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this beautifully printed art zine.

I Love Coffee 2 includes various digital drawings by the artist expressing his love and/or neurotic addiction to the magical beverage. What caffeine junky can't relate to that joy?

 

No Forward for this edition is provided, however, Terada does include one page that reveals what this zine is about.

 

At 5.5 x 8.5" this publication features the first two Giant Robot issues ever in the same single-fold-page size as the originals! Inside, find 162 pages of Giant Robot nostalgia and plenty of notes by Eric Nakamura, offering fascinating behind the scenes info and his thoughts looking back from the point of view of over 25 years later. The Giant Robot fan whether new or true will not want to miss this walk down memory lane.

Reprint, issued in early 2023. 

If you want your copy signed by Eric Nakamura, leave a note with your order!

Softcover, 24 pages, Measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches, full color. Includes 3x3" sticker.

Released along with Katsuya Terada's Rakugaking solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this beautifully printed art zine.

I Love Coffee I Love Ninja includes various drawings and paintings by the artist expressing his love and/or neurotic addiction to the magical beverage. What caffeine junky can't relate to that joy?

Excerpt from the forward written by Katsuya Terada:

"Mornings, I wake up.

I don't feel like working at all.

There's tons of shit that needs to be done, but I don't want to do it.

This is when I throw myself into grinding beans..."

 

Hardcover, 8 x 8 inches, 32 pages. 

A follow-up to Stack the Cats, Balance the Birds is about balance and relative size. When birds spot a tree and decide to land on its branches, the readers can help them find the perfect balance. Like Stack the Cats, Balance the Birds introduces key early math skills for toddlers.

This landmark publication accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s paintings. Although other volumes on Murakami in English address the crossover between his fine art and commercial output, this book presents the first serious consideration of his work as a painter. It provides a sustained consideration of the artist’s relationship to the tradition of Japanese painting and his facility in straddling high and low, ancient and modern, eastern and western, commercial and high art. Lavishly illustrated with large-scale images of works that span his art student days to now—many reproduced together for the first time—the book contextualizes Murakami’s output in postwar Japan with essays that situate the artist in relation to folklore, traditional Japanese painting Nihonga, the Tokyo art scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. The volume includes essays by curator Michael Darling, Michael Dylan Foster, Chelsea Foxwell, Reuben Keehan, and Akira Mizuta Lippit, as well as a biography and exhibition history, selected bibliography, and index.

Hardcover, 548 pages, measures 6 x 9 inches.

Following the successful release of multi-series trading cards based on the originalStar Wars film series (1977–83), Topps released the first volume of its Widevision series in 1995. These special cards were just as tall as the standard Topps trading cards but twice as long—a format that better reflected the widescreen dimensions of the films. Now, for the first time, every card, as well as rare promotional cards and limited edition chase cards, are reprinted in one deluxe collection. This new volume includes the fronts and backs of each card, showcasing original storyboards, fun facts, filmmaker quotes, behind-the-scenes photos, and exclusive commentary by George Lucas.

Also included are four bonus cards, rare promotional images, an introduction by Gary Gerani, the original editor of the Star Wars Topps series, and an afterword by Star Wars collector Stephen J. Sansweet.

Hardcover, 6" x 8.25", 368 pages, 308 images, Limited edition of 1500 .

26 pages, measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

From the vault, comes the second installment of "From the Pit" photo zine.

Before Giant Robot, owner and founder Eric Nakamura shot seminal late 80's / early 90's punk rock bands. Photo's capture performers in their early days. Beautifully shot; history was captured.

Features photos of such bands and performers as Firehouse, "5,6,7,8's," The Dwarves, Soundgarden, L&, The Go-Nuts, Rocket From the Crypt, Butthole Surfers and more!  Forward by Eric. 

26 pages, measures 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

Before Giant Robot, owner and founder Eric Nakamura shot seminal late 80's / early 90's punk rock bands. Photo's capture performers in their early days. Beautifully shot; history was captured. Features photos of such bands and performers as Kurt Cobain, Sonic Youth, Courtney Love, Beck, Public Enemy, Jawbreaker, L7, Firehose, Mudhoney, Unwound and more!  Each photo has a little commentary by Eric. The cover photo wraps around the zine to the back.

Softcover, 326 pages, Measures 6 x 8.5 inches.

This beautiful retrospective of illustrator and manga artist Katsuya Terada is a must have for all art appreciators. Features his work for manga, novel illustrations and character designs. This is the catalog for his solo exhibition at Kyoto International Manga Museum earlier this year.

Softcover, 10" x 8.5", 128 pages, Full Color, Text in Japanese & English

A wonderful catalog of Murakami's prints from his KaiKai KiKi Gallery! Classic first run prints from his collection.

Zine measures 8.5 x 11 inches, 70 pages, Black & White.

Giant Robot history reprinted! Before it was a magazine, Giant Robot was a zine. And Issue 3 is back 20 years later! Culture that is still relevant and interesting to this day.  Re-discover it all! Articles on:

• Alfredo Alcala comic book artist
• MAK-90's - Are you safe without one?
• Emily's Sassy Lime vs Rice! The War.
• Doughnuts made by Cambodians.
• Asian Topics in old Punk Songs
• Hong Kong Films
• Nails, Youth, Sumo, UFC V, Pizzicato, Blurts, Sebadoh and Tons More!

Softcover, 32 pages, Measures 4.25 x 6 inches, black & white.

Released along with Katsuya Terada's second solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this Hot Pot Girls zine. Hot Pot Girls 2 features black and white photos of the artist's various drawings and paintings for his Hot Pot Girls show. What wonderful work!

Softcover, 32 pages, Measures 4.25 x 6 inches, black & white.

Released along with Katsuya Terada's solo art show at our Giant Robot 2 gallery comes this Hot Pot Girls zine. Features black and white photos of the artist's various drawings and paintings for his Hot Pot Girls show. What wonderful work!

Hardcover, 7.25" x 8.25", 144pp, Full Color

Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artistí«í´s book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents. Using cut out, collaged letters and phrases to compose her oblique, poetic text, Doucetí«í´s words are as graphically enticing as her images. The book moves from pointed collages made from 1960s Quebecois magazines to abstract, psychedelic drawings to a moving catalog of her loverí«í´s possessions, and back again. The diversity of images could be the work of multiple artists, but Doucetí«í´s funny, frank sensibility ties it all together. Doucet, long known as the "female R. Crumb," and regarded as the finest female cartoonist of the 20th century, has never before published a book like this: a pure, non-comics distillation of her artistic sensibility. This complete work of art will appeal both to fans of her graphic novelsí«ÌÎÌÓwho will appreciate her sense of humor and vivacious drawingí«ÌÎÌÓand art aficionados who will be moved and surprised by her skills, and bowled over by her unforgettable images.

Hardcover, 6" x 8.25", 220pp, Text in English and Japanese

Some copies have some minor imperfections to the cover to some degree.

Buenos Aries is sort of a visual journal of acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (2046, Hero, Infernal Affairs). The book documents his everday experiences on the set of Buenos Aries, a film that recreates the experiences of director Wong Kar-Wai and his crew while in Argentina in 1996. Each page is in entry penned by Doyle himself which is accompanied by incredible photographs of behind the scene moments on set and various locations in Argentina.