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Boilerplate steams up Seattle

Paul Guinan is Guest of Honor at STEAMCON this weekend.

The folks at Seattle Geekly interviewed Paul and Anina about the Victorian robot Boilerplate, and steampunk in general, for their October 15 episode.
LISTEN TO IT HERE. Paul & Anina start babbling about 45 minutes into the program.

Robot Reviews and Interview

Paul Guinan’s Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel is in stores now, and here’s this week’s reaction:

“Visually and thematically stunning”
Baltimore Sun
“A masterpiece of fictional reality”
The Telegraph UK

An interview with Paul about the victorian robot is at NEWSARAMA.

A Robot Cop

A Robot Cop

Victorian Robot captured by Germans – reviewed by Barnes & Noble

This weeks roundup of Boilerplate sightings include an appearance on a German blog, and a review from the international bookseller Barnes & Noble.

German version of Boilerplate called PANZERMANN

German version of Boilerplate called PANZERMANN

Boilerplate reading/performance and signing at Powell’s Books – TONIGHT!

Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett will be performing excerpts from the book Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel at Powell’s Books.
You do not want to miss Anina’s impression of Mark Twain!
Here’s the skinny:
BOILERPLATE BOOK READING & SIGNING
Friday, October 2nd @ 7:30pm
Powell’s City of Books on Burnside
1005 W Burnside (800) 878-7323

Paul Guinan interview at Comic Book Resources

CBR has posted an interview with Paul and Boilerplate co-author/wife Anina Bennett. They talk about the creation of the Victorian robot, their intent with the book, and provide hitherto unknown tidbits about the coffee-table tome.

Paul, Boilerplate, and Anina

Paul, Boilerplate, and Anina

Boilerplate book: it’s alive!

Colleen Coover browses through an advance copy of Paul Guinan’s BOILERPLATE hardcover. boilerplate_coover

Boilerplate gallery show opens tonight

A MAJOR BOILERPLATE EXHIBITION AT PORTLAND CENTER
Boilerplate photos, prints, and paintings (pigment on canvas, NOT digital), will be on display from September through November. It opens on First Thursday–tonight!
Come see this display of 27(!) works in the huge atrium/lobby of the PCPA/Hatfield Hall, also home to the ArtBar. 1111 SW Broadway at Main, the southwest corner.
Art+Booze+Robot=Crazy Awesome!
Boilerplate vs Bear

OK, Boilerplate IS steampunk…

Boilerplate’s creator Paul Guinan sees the soon to be released BP coffee-table book as history–with one fictional element, a robot. Technically this makes it science-fiction. However, Paul doesn’t necessarily think of it as steampunk, because of the lack of goggles, gears, airships, and other such tropes.
Film In Focus not only nails Boilerplate as steampunk, but as a modern “Edisonade.”
Interestingly the article describes Boilerplate as “innocent,” despite such subject matter as mechanized warfare, imperialism, racism, women’s suffrage, and child labor.

Paul Guinan interview at Jazma Online

Richard Vasseur interviews Paul Guinan about his robot creation Boilerplate, and comic book co-creations Heartbreakers, and Chronos.

Boilerplate loved by Powell’s Books

Review copies of Paul Guinan’s BOILERPLATE book are getting rave reviews. The latest is from Erik Litz, Powells Books:

“This highly unique and visually stunning piece of work, which has found it’s way to book form, is a priceless piece of originality. Some other form of media would be amiss to not see this translated towards television or film. Both ‘old world’ and ‘high tech’ merge to birth a new hero for us all. Exquisite in execution and delivery…..ahh, there are still books, after all my years, that can inspire me so. My own words cannot do it justice. One can’t be told what BOILERPLATE is, one must experience it.”

Dime Novel Circa 1900

Dime Novel Circa 1900