Nakamura and Giant Robot co-founder Martin Wong will be appearing at the Los Angeles Public Library at 2 p.m. Dec. 15 as part of the LA Made Presents series.
Giant Robot co-founders Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong hold up a copy of “Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture” at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con. “Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture,”The short answer is, you can’t.
“I was looking at other magazines out there and thinking, Wow, I don’t have the budget for that, but I can make a zine as thick as a magazine,” he recalls. “That was kind of the idea, making something as bold and thick. I think the first Giant Robot was 68 pages. It was actually pretty substantial.” Giant Robot became a source for a wide range of subjects, from Hong Kong action films to anime to indie rock to art.
“It was always just from a different perspective,” Nakamura says. “I guess Giant Robot was technically a job, but it was always more than a job. It was seriously curation by just our personal interests and I think that’s one thing that’s different about the magazine, the constant evolution of our interests.”that the magazine’s appeal wasn’t just the subjects they covered, but how they were covered them.
The final issue of Giant Robot hit the streets in 2011, but the magazine’s ethos continues. Nakamura still operates the“For me, doing the shops was just as vital for me as doing the magazine. It’s just as fun and I still am the buyer, so I am picking all of the products. I curate a lot of the art shows and I keep the ball rolling there,” says Nakamura.
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