Friday, June 26


Giant Robot a hip business success

Corporate hipsters can pick off ideas from Giant Robot, but they can never outrun the trend-setting magazine. “It’s cool that buyers for Urban Outfitters shop at the Giant Robot store, but we’ll always be one step ahead. Read more...


[Online] The Darkness offers a return to '80s rock stardom

Sequins. Leopard-print, bell-bottomed bodysuits. Teased hair. What do all of these have in common, besides being all the rage in the ’80s? Well, they are all imperative to creating the image of The Darkness, a British glam-rock band at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, and the band is ready to cross over to the States to rock our proverbial socks off. Read more...


Marketing comics as art

John Pham, a 27-year-old undergraduate student in the East Asian Studies department, still goes bug-eyed when he sees his comic anthology “Epoxy Press” on the shelf at Meltdown Comics bookstore on Sunset Boulevard. Read more...




Cost of Legality

Napster is back. But no, it’s not the same service that gave users free-for-all access to pop songs in the days of the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. Read more...