Giant Robot Magazine Needs Our Help
Posted by Mariko Fujinaka in publishing on February 26, 2010
I remember back when Giant Robot Magazine first started up. It was some 15 years ago and launched by two young UCLA graduates. The magazine focuses on Asian and Asian-American popular culture, and it introduced me to a brave new world of artists, designers, musicians, movies, trends, food, and more. The magazine has spawned several Giant Robot stores/galleries, as well as a restaurant, gr/eats, and it has launched the careers and boosted the visibility of a number of artists and musicians, including Japanese artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.
As we all know, times are tough in the publishing industry. Independent publishers such as Giant Robot that already operate on a shoestring budget have been hit harder than others. Even though Giant Robot Magazine is a well-established organization that cranks out a professional product, it still operates like a start-up, with just two full-time employees (the founders, Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong) and two part-timers. The company is as streamlined as it can be. This is why it has decided to launch an online fundraising campaign. The publication hopes to raise $60,000 so it can continue, at least for another solid year, to produce an uncompromised, quality magazine. The online campaign began about a month ago, and so far it has raised just over $18,000. To read more about the magazine and to donate, go here.
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