Event

Prime Baby - Book SigningPost an Event »

Giant Robot

June 10 - June 10, 2010

Info

618 Shrader Street San Francisco, CA 94117
Google Map »
Prime Baby - Book Signing
Giant Robot is proud to host a reception and book signing with comic book artist Gene Yang to celebrate the release of his new publication, Prime Baby. Although the disarmingly cute strip, which was first serialized in the New York Times Magazine, is about children, the themes and plot are as dark as can be. At first, the sanity of its young narrator, Thaddeus K. Fong, is put in question when he questions his newborn sister's humanity. Is she really an alien? Is he merely spiteful or a true genius? Either way, his power of manipulation is equally effective with his yuppie parents, babbling sibling, and altruistic alien missionaries; everyone except for his classmates, who hate him. According to Yang, "Math nerds, new parents, and really evil third graders ought to get a kick out of this one." Gene Yang began publishing comic books under the name Humble Comics in 1996. In 1997, he received the Xeric Grant for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks. In 2006, he wrote and drew American Born Chinese, which won an Eisner Award and the American Library Association's Printz Award, and was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award. The Eternal Smile, a 2009 collaboration with Derek Kirk Kim, has been nominated for an Eisner, as well. In April 2010, he had two graphic novels released: Animal Crackers and Prime Baby. 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.