Drawn & Quarterly

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture [PRE-ORDER 09/17]

$49.95

Drawn & Quarterly

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture [PRE-ORDER 09/17]

$49.95
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NOT YET AVAILABLE. Pre-order now. This title is scheduled to arrive September 17, 2024.
Note: release dates and prices are tentative. When pre-ordering with multiple items, remember your order will not ship until the last pre-ordered item is in stock. If you want items to ship separately, place separate orders.

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.

Editor: Eric Nakamura
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Page Count: 464pp
Size: 8.25 x 11 x 1
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: September 17, 2024
ISBN: 978-1770467132