Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
**Recorded live at the Taper Auditorium located inside of the Central Library (630 W 5th St) on 12/15/24.
Join us as we celebrated the release of a new book that dives deep into the pop culture phenomenon of Giant Robot. Author and Giant Robot founder, Eric Nakamura, will be joined by GR co-founder Martin Wong.
Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine's sixty-eight issue run alongside never-before-seen photographs, supplementary writing by long-term contributing journalist Claudine Ko, and tributes from now-famous fans including Margaret Cho, Daniel Wu, Randall Park, Peggy Oki, Takashi Murakami, Natasha Pickowicz, and Jia Tolentino.
Moderating this discussion was George Chen, writer, event organizer, comedian, and actor in Los Angeles.
This LA Made program was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
**Recorded live at the Taper Auditorium located inside of the Central Library (630 W 5th St) on 12/15/24.
Join us as we celebrated the release of a new book that dives deep into the pop culture phenomenon of Giant Robot. Author and Giant Robot founder, Eric Nakamura, will be joined by GR co-founder Martin Wong.
Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian-American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine's sixty-eight issue run alongside never-before-seen photographs, supplementary writing by long-term contributing journalist Claudine Ko, and tributes from now-famous fans including Margaret Cho, Daniel Wu, Randall Park, Peggy Oki, Takashi Murakami, Natasha Pickowicz, and Jia Tolentino.
Moderating this discussion was George Chen, writer, event organizer, comedian, and actor in Los Angeles.
This LA Made program was made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
