Publications

Chappies adorn the cover. Get a taste of Wong Jing, the king of Asian trash cinema, Groovisions the graphic design company from Japan that people love, be upside down for two weeks - one of us did it
Snow monkeys in Japan rule!

cover by J. Otto Seibold

Tallest Asian American Man, Cheng Pei Pei the Jade Fox, Travel to Spain, Tea in China, International Noise Conspiracy, Pinoy Prison Recipies, Donger Gedde Watanabe with a comic by Adrian Tomine.

Classic shit yo. Cover Jenny Shimizu.

low stock warning!

Asian American Power Movement (60's and 70's), Jenny Shimizu, the untold story and many facets of rice, Simply Jeff, Slick, Rumble in the Bronx's Francoise Yip. 

The Food Issue. Cover Margaret Cho.

Margaret Cho, Eat Dogs, Eat bugs and be Lactose Intolerant, Ramen Rankings, Chinese Jamaica, Bruce Lee Museum, and much much more!

The Art and Music Issue. Cover Money Mark.

The 5 year anniversary! Money Mark, Cibo Matto, Shu Uemura, DJ Krush, Automator, Beat Junkies , Japanese Cover Bands, and much much more!

(full size 88p.)

MEET BUDDHA! Dalai Lama, Doomsday Cults, Happy Buddhas, Cao Dai, Saimese Fighting Fish, Cock Fighting, Pokemon Fighting, Jollibee, Damon and Naomi, Korean Cold Noodles, Husking Bee, Ron Van Clief, God

The Kogal Issue. Cover Jumbo Machinder robots.

Jumbo Machinder, Jim Kelly, Kogals, Beat Takeshi, Thai Fruit Carving, Naomi Nishida, Simon Yam, Little Bobdog, Asian squatters in NYC, Pro skater Eric Koston, and much much more!

The Get Geeked Issue. Cover Patricia Lee.

Power Rangers Unmasked, Japanese Sugar Fix, Geek Love, Optic Nerve, Tuvan Eagles, Drink Blood and much much more!

Winter 2005. Cover by Souther Salazar.

* Outsider art trailblazer Manuel Ocampo
* Eric's prison visit with campus shooter Wayne Lo
* Director of Kairo, Charisma, Bright Future, Doppelganger, etc., Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* King Cobra boxers from Thailand
* Pro skater/picnic-table killer Daewon Song
* Meet the Qee mastermind
* World champs of badminton, Asian sport of the present and Asian-American sport of the future
* DJ Jester and Kid Koala's pal, P-Love

Note: Keep in mind we're nearing vintage age, so magazines will not always be in perfect condition, though all the contents will be just as great as you remember.

Paperback, 7.5" x 7.5", 120pp, Full Color

Hilarious, disgusting, mysterious, and cuter than a puppy playing with a kitten, Chocolate Cheeks is the next great "Yikes" book from Steven Weissman. The Pullapart Boy (a 21st Century Frankenstein's monster for kids), his social circle having dwindled down to his stupid brother (Dead Boy), their dead dog (Elzie Crisler), and a fat kid that nobody likes ("Chubby" Cheeks), attempts to make some new friends. Meanwhile, across town, the Little Tin-Stars (Cow-Boy and Cow-Girl) are in a desperate fight against the forces of nature, hostile natives, a river monster, their own horse and a man called Chocolate Cheeks. Juxtaposing gag-driven, newspaper-fashioned strips (employed to great effect in 2006's Chewing Gum In Church) with the sprawling, Western comic approach of his legendary "Look Out For Big Della" (from 2002's White Flower Day), Chocolate Cheeks is Weissman at his best: stunning, memorable, poignant, hilarious, and just gross enough to delight the children.

Paperback, 10" x 7", 32pp

In this long-awaited conclusion to Adrian Tomine's three-part epic, the story leaps across the country, taking place entirely in New York. All of protagonist Ben Tanaka's worst (and most amusing) traits are brought to the fore as his obsessive quest reaches a fever pitch. His best friend, Alice Kim, finds herself at an unexpected crossroads in her life, forcing her to make several life-altering decisions. But whatever happened to Ben's girlfriend, Miko Hayashi? That and many other answers are revealed as our protagonists walk and talk their way through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, all delineated in Tomine's evocatively pristine style.

Softcover, 4.5" x 5.5", Color and Black & White

Giant Robot is proud to publish Bare Foot Riot, a collection of sketches by up-and-coming indie comics artist Martin Cendreda. The Los Angeles-based illustrator has worked on Comedy Central's South Park TV show and movie, but Cendreda is most proud of his Zurik Robot and Dang! mini-comics. Beginning with cute-yet-melancholy one-panel gags, his work has evolved into longer forms of storytelling that maintain his clear-yet-spontaneous style and dark humor. He made the jump from self-published, stapled-and-folded pieces to the indie comics elite when Top Shelf published a collection of his strips in 2004.

Click here to see a page of sketches.

Click here to see a color spread.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket, 6.25" x 9.25", 304pp

Opening its doors in 1970, Hampshire College was once known as a land of eternal partying, where countercultures thrived and jocks were nowhere to be found. Self- proclaimed nerd Richard Rushfield knew this progressive Massachusetts campus was the place for him, offering a chance to shed his squeaky-clean California upbringing. He was part of the freshman class of 1986, hiding out from Reagan-era excess in a liberal haven where overachievement and preppy clothes were banned.

By turns hilarious, ironic, and steeped in history, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost takes readers to a campus populated by Deadheads, club kids, poets, and insomniac filmmakers, at a time when America saw the rise of punk and grunge alongside neo-conservatism, earnest calls for political correctness, and Take Back the Night vigils. Shunned by all of the school's reigning subcultures, Rushfield joins the most hated clique on campus, the Supreme Dicks, navigates a dating scene where to express interest in anything is social suicide, and mostly avoids class where hippie professors blather on about post-structuralism. Culminating in a mad clash of slackers and yuppies, Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost captures a watershed moment for American youth in one hilarious and unforgettable trip.

Hardcover, 6.5" x 9.25", 270pp

On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the ChineseåÐNorth Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts" and imprisoned months, enduring interrogations and eventually a trial before North Korea's highest court. They were the first Americans ever to be sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea.

Journalist Lisa Ling immediately began a campaign to get her sister released, one that led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House.

Somewhere Inside reveals for the first time Laura's gripping account of what really happened on the river, her treatment at the hands of North Korean guards, and the deprivations and rounds of harrowing interrogations she endured. She speaks movingly about the emotional toll inflicted on her by her incarceration, including the measures she took to protect her sources and her fears that she might never see her family again.

Hardcover, 8.75" x 8.75", 150 pages, Black & White

If kozyndan created a world of their own, then this book contains portraits of the people who would exist in it. Inspired from a photo album found in a Venice Beach thrift shop, kozyndan sought to create imagined personae to capture essence of these photographs. This collection is composed of small, detailed graphite portraits, each piece capturing the surreal humour and observation that has become fundamental within Kozyndan's distinctive style of artwork.

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Hardcover, 11" x 9", 168pp

The latest limited edition from Ryan McGinness - No Sin/No Future follows the trajectory of the artist's book Project Rainbow (2003, Gingko Press). A collection of snapshots, sketches, and scans, all extracted with a discerning eye from the artist's studio archives. Sketchbook notes collide with paintings-in-progress and combine with vectors and bitmaps to create a dense site-specific visual concoction that provides unprecedented insight into how this artist's mind works and the mental processes that deliver his unique style. The work of Ryan McGinness has exercised great influence in graphic design and visual art circles, and is collected by venerable institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The edition is limited to 2500 copies.