Giant Robot (magazine)
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Giant Robot is an Asian American pop-culture magazine founded by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong in 1994 as a small punk-minded magazine that covered a variety of Asian pop culture and Asian American alternative culture including music, movies, history, toys, technology, food, and skateboarding. The publication went from a small photocopied, stapled-and-folded zine format to its current full-color bi-monthly format.
It was one of the earliest American publications to feature prominent Asian movie stars like Chow Yun-Fat and Jackie Chan, as well as Asian musicians from indie and punk-rock bands. The magazine is also popular for its creative T-shirts and odd toys. In the late 1990s, it opened an online store and then in 2001, it opened the first Giant Robot store in Los Angeles and later one in San Francisco and then another in Los Angeles called GR2 which features contemporary young artists' artwork and products. Recently it has opened a store in New York City and Silverlake, as well as a restaurant called Gr/eats also in Los Angeles.
In the 2003 release of The Animatrix, both Eric and Martin are featured on the "making-of" documentary talking about anime.
