Earlier today I heard from Tak Toyoshima who sent along this image of a benefit shirt he made for GR featuring his character Sam from Secret Asian Man. This image rules on a couple of levels. I'm always fond of mashups to begin with, and I especially love seeing a well known logo tweaked and played with. Then just take a look at Sam's inner mechanics. The giant eyebrow, the camera lens for the eye, the ear that looks like it's hooked into the brain. It shows a lot of love and care for a character when you can imagine what his inner workings would look like if he was a robot. These shirts will be available for sale at Tak's signing at GRNY on April 23rd.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
Book Signing
Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days
Friday, April 23, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Giant Robot Gallery
437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village
New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net
Giant Robot is proud to celebrate the release of Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days with a signing by writer and artist Tak Toyoshima.
Secret Asian Man is a comic strip that is often brutally honest commentary on the state of race relations in America. It focuses on what makes us the same as well as different, through the lens of Asian American protagonist Osamu "SAM" Takahashi. Between the covers of this 232-page collection, no one is safe from SAM's keen observations on race, religion, politics, sexual orientation, and everything else that gets people's undies in a bunch. (It's also quite funny.)
Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent. Toyoshima will be signing the book from 6:00 to 8:00 on Friday, April 23. For more information about the author, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact:
Eric Nakamura
Giant Robot Owner/Publisher
eric@giantrobot.com
(310) 479-7311
Labels: Giant Robot Magazine, Giant Robot New York, GRNY, Secret Asian Man, Tak Toyoshima
