Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover, 8.3 x 10.35 inches, 40 pages. 

Written by Zohreh Ghahremani and illustrated by Susie Ghahremani.

A lively afternoon together in Nana’s garden is full of laughter, discovery, and connection. In lyrical text that blends past and present, Memory Garden takes us to the places we leave behind but never forget.

Written and illustrated by a loving mother daughter duo, the nostalgic text and vibrant illustrations invite us to enjoy the beauty of Iranian gardens – and culture - in an adventure that will resonate with readers of all backgrounds.

Softcover, 70 pages, full color. Measures 8.25 x 10.75 inches.

A beautiful compilation of photographs capturing public telephone boxes, which are rendered as still standing time markers. 

From the publisher: 

"In "Phone Book," Tatsu's lens captures the essence of time's passage through portraits of public phones. Each image evokes nostalgia for a bygone era while prompting reflection on the impact of technological progress. Through Tatsu's artistry, these relics become symbols of human connection, inviting viewers to ponder what we've gained and lost in the evolution of communication."

Hardcover, 464 pages, measures 8.3 x 11 inches, full color.

Each copy is signed by Eric Nakamura!  (most likely will include other signatures of participants)

Please note this is a preorder: Books will ship out late October, early November 2024. The onsale date is October 21st. 

Note: We are scheduled to have preview copies for SDCC only in late July. This pre-order will not and cannot include those copies. 

In person book events are scheduled in Los Angeles, Northern California Bay Area, Philadelphia, New York and maybe more?! For more information click here!

In conjunction with the great Drawn & Quarterly, we present Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture, a hardcover curated collection of Giant Robot's best! Jam packed with so many great articles written by + interviews conducted by the passionate and creative Giant Robot contributors throughout the years. A beautiful hardcopy encapsulation of an era that lives on today!  

Description from Drawn & Quarterly:

Celebrating the pop culture phenomenon that redefined what it meant to be Asian-American with tributes from Margaret Cho, Randall Park, Jia Tolentino, and more.

Los Angeles, 1994. Two Asian-American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo, Hong Kong Cinema and Osamu Tezuka. From the very margins of the DIY press and alternative culture, Giant Robot burst into the mainstream with over 60,000 copies in circulation annually at its peak. Giant Robot even popped right off the page, setting up a restaurant, gallery, and storefronts in LA, as well as galleries and stores in New York and San Francisco. As their influence grew in the 90s and 00s, Giant Robot was eventually invited to the White House by Barack Obama, to speak at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and to curate the GR Biennale at the Japanese American National Museum.

Home to a host of unapologetically authentic perspectives bridging the bicultural gap between Asian and Asian-American pop culture, GR had the audacity to print such topics side-by-side, and become a touchstone for generations of artists, musicians, creators, and collectors of all kinds in a pre-social media era. Nowhere else were pieces on civil rights activists running next to articles on skateboarding and Sriracha. Toy collectors, cartoonists, and street style pioneers got as many column inches as Michelle Yeoh, Karen O, James Jean, and Haruki Murakami.

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine’s sixty-eight issue run alongside never-before-seen photographs, supplementary writing by long-term contributing journalist Claudine Ko, and tributes from now-famous fans who’ve been around since day one. Margaret Cho, Daniel Wu, and Randall Park celebrate Giant Robot’s enduring legacy alongside pioneering pro-skateboarder Peggy Oki, contemporary art giant Takashi Murakami, culinary darling Natasha Pickowicz, and critically acclaimed essayist Jia Tolentino.

Hardcover, 248 pages, measures 8.8 x 10.7 inches.

A comprehensive exploration of Maurice Sendak’s work, Wild Things are Happening is the perfect gift book for art lovers, illustrators, and anyone who cherished the classic story, Where the Wild Things Are. Featuring previously unpublished sketches, storyboards, and paintings to showcase Sendak’s creative processes as well as his relationship to the history of art and his own art collecting, enthusiasts of Sendak’s oeuvre will find themselves enamored with this book.

40 pages, full-color, hardcover book. Measures 8 x 11 inches.

This is Nikki's most ambitious and detailed book to date. 

This lyrical picture book follows a family through one day in an amazing small town — and muses on the possibilities that just one day can hold — from enjoying treats at the bakery, to admiring handmade goods from local artisan shops, to observing the new construction in town.

Illuminating themes of community, creativity, and collaboration, What Will These Hands Make? dares the reader to dream up everything they can be and all the ways they can leave their little corner of the world better than they found it.

Softcover, 272 pages, 11.6 x 8.3 inches.

Amazing work from the illustrator & animator Yoneyama Mai in one beautiful book!

From working on visual development for the anime film Promare, to production of the end credits for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and more, Yoneyama Mai is active in the world of anime and illustration. This edition features a complete archive of the illustrations that make you feel the flow of emotions and movement that Yoneyama Mai is known for. 
This is the first collection of original works by Yoneyama Mai, who has more than one million followers on Twitter and is getting attention from both animators and creators! Enjoy the vivid colors and delicate details in Yoneyama’s work. 

Softcover, 140 pages, 8.3 x 5.8 inches.

Delight in the casual, yet heartwarming, slices of everyday life in 526’s illustrations. 

The much-anticipated commercial debut collection of 526 on the theme of “daily life,” showcasing moments from the lives of people today captured in single illustrations. 

526 is a new creator whose ability to evoke empathy has been getting a lot of attention: in 2021, their illustrations posted on social media received more than 840,000 likes. Featuring students, parents, pop idols, office workers and other people of various ages and occupations as the main characters, the meaning and emotion expressed in the illustrations and titles are sure to enhance reader’s enjoyment of 526’s work even more. 

This book is sure to play an active role in expanding awareness of people’s everyday lives against the backdrop of ordinary scenes in Japan today. 

Take a look at each of these lovely slices of daily life captured by 526. 

Softcover, full color pages, 6.75 x 10 inches.

A CONTINUATION OF A THRILLING NEW SCI-FI SERIES SET IN A BREATHTAKING SOLARPUNK METROPOLIS! SET IN THE DIGITAL WORLD OF BLITMAP!

Under the shadow of an ancient cataclysm, Blitnauts and Logos factions battle for power, while The Static's elusive realm entraps and corrupts all who submit to its mystifying call.

Written by Jack Timmer and illustrated by Matias Basla. 

Each issue is blind bagged, coming with a surprise cover. No cover is the same!! 

Softcover, full color pages, 6.75 x 10 inches.

A THRILLING NEW SCI-FI SERIES SET IN A BREATHTAKING SOLARPUNK METROPOLIS! SET IN THE DIGITAL WORLD OF BLITMAP!

Under the shadow of an ancient cataclysm, Blitnauts and Logos factions battle for power, while The Static's elusive realm entraps and corrupts all who submit to its mystifying call.

Written by Jack Timmer and illustrated by Matias Basla. 

Each issue is blind bagged, coming with a surprise cover. No cover is the same! 

Hardcover, 64 pages, 8.75 x 12 inches.

This edition includes a signed bookplate by Felicia Chiao!

Written by Everything Everywhere All at Once director Daniel Kwan, 24 Minutes to Bedtime! brings the multiverse to the bedtime story, illustrated by the wonderfully talented Felicia Chiao, one of Giant Robot's absolute favorites.

Illustrated by Felicia Chiao, the story follows Winston, who invents a time machine that allows him to time jump around his house, narrowly avoiding his increasingly agitated parents and their efforts to brush his teeth, change his PJs, and just tuck him into bed already. Everything goes smoothly until Winston encounters alternate versions of himself in alternate timelines, forcing him to confront his choices head on.

Hardcover, 320 pages, black & white and color, 6.25 x 8.25 inches. 

This new hardcover, from Moebius production, is in the same format as Le Faune de Mars and Le Major, and collects Moebius' abstract paintings and drawings. It's a rarely seen side of Moebius' oeuvre. Some of his abstracts have been published in the books Chaos, Moebius Transe Forme, the German Moebius exhibition catalogue, and the exceedingly rare Quatre-Vingt Huit.

This book is mostly art, with a few poems. In this 320-page book, there are only 7 pages of text. In french.

Comes with an ex-libris!

From the publisher:

Who is Lazlo Parker?

He is an obscure artist, rising from the depths of the Moebiusian subconscious, he is an expert in mecanico-organic shapes, a compulsive obsessive drawer, an amateur poet...

"The objective was to create shapes showing nothing in particular, but inhabited and fed by a powerful and unbridled sense of representation, light, shade, forms, perspective, and expertise."

Legendary French cartoonist Jean Giraud Moebius was a multi-faceted artist who left a deep impact on the minds of people all around the world. His most read and re-read stories feature the characters of: Blueberry, which Giraud signed Gir; Arzak from the eponymous work; Major Grubert from the Airtight Garage; Stel and Atan from the World of Edena; John Difool from the Incal; or Moebius himself from Inside Moebius, his autofictional graphic novel.

Beyond the figurative representations that built his success, Moebius was interested in more abstract forms, hybrid creations alluding to both the unpredictable logic of nature and the regular workings of the machine. Lazlo Parker is the alias inhabiting one of the notebooks in which Moebius experimented with this unexpected style, creating new and intriguing forms, further widening his vast range of expression.