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Editorial

On Sunday, Eric Nakamura and I gave a 20th anniversary presentation about Giant Robot magazine at GR2. As co-founders of the publication, we gave plenty of talks about it at colleges, companies, museums, and juvenile halls from 1994-2010. They were always fun, equal parts (1) behind-the-scenes stories about starting a stapled-and-folded zine about Asian, underground,...

Editorial

Once a year, the LA Art Book Fair takes over MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. Vendors pay for their spaces but admission is free to anyone who is interested in artists’ books, catalogs, periodicals, zines, and prints from an international array of publishers of all sizes, booksellers, and artists themselves. Of course I had...

Editorial, ICL

After it was announced last week that artist David Choe would be the next speaker at Imprint Presents, it was hard not to recall last year's Q&A with him at the Art Theatre in Long Beach. Imprint/interTrend leader Julia Huang had arranged for him as well as his documentary filmmaker/Thumbs Up! sidekick/longtime friend Harry Kim...