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FRANK READE – The Atlantic…and beyond!

Early reports about FRANK READE: Adventures in the Age of Invention are all glowingly positive!

Publishers Weekly calls it “a stunning multimedia confection of the highest order that creates a detailed and delightful world.”

The Atlantic, that’s right, THE ATLANTIC, describes it as “meticulously crafted.”

A terrific interview with authors Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett can be found at the Portland Examiner.

Are you ready for the Frank Reade Land Sea and Air book tour?

Boilerplate BROADCAST

Before cable or the intertubes, a thing called “broadcast television” dominated video viewing. Since Boilerplate is retro, it’s appropriate that the first major video interview with the Victorian robot’s creator Paul Guinan, and co-author Anina Bennett, was televised over the airwaves–old school! Outlook Portland with Rick Emerson is a Sunday morning chat show on channel 32, and the YouTube version is now available for those who weren’t up early enough or who live outside the broadcast area. It’s in four segments, each about six minutes, 24 minutes total. Don’t miss the end, where we surprise the host with a gift and leave him nearly speechless.

PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR

Also, in case you missed it, here is an entertainment show’s 90-second announcement about the Boilerplate movie.

And have you seen the short trailer Paul made for the Boilerplate book?
He’s very proud of it.

Frank Reade preview & Boilerplate exclusives

Things From Another World is having an art opening and book preview with Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, who will be special guests at this year’s Comic-Con International. The opening is at TFAW’s Hollywood location on June 24 from 7 to 10 pm. There will be free food, beer, and wine.

The art show will feature exclusive editions of prints created especially for this event, some never publicly shown, and a rare display of toys and artifacts from Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, which was recently optioned by J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Lost). The exhibit will also include a sneak preview of artwork from Paul and Anina’s upcoming book, Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, the chronicle of a family of steampunk inventors. Paul will present the first public showing of an elaborate model of Frank Reade’s electric battle-wagon, the Valiant, which he built for the new book.

Boilerplate, Rock’em Sock’em Robots, and doughnuts

Paul Guinan’s Boilerplate artwork is featured in the Short Circuit Robot Show at the Benjamin Benjamin Gallery (and prominently on their website’s home page) for the month of March. Only one word can describe a show that includes paintings from the legendary Eric Joyner: AWESOME!

As Eric’s latest series of works involves robots with doughnuts, the yummy baked goods will be served at the opening on Thursday, March 3.
Wind yourself up and march over to 1720 NW Lovejoy, PDX, for this show!

Eric Joyner's "Too Many Choices"

Coover and Guinan retro back to the future with JETTA!

Colleen Coover and Paul Guinan contributed pinups to Craig Yoe’s JETTA, a retrospective of Dan DeCarlo’s teenage heroine, who zoomed through the future a full decade before Judy Jetson.
This marks the first time the robot Boilerplate has made an appearance in print since the release of its coffee-table biography last October.

Colleen Coover


Paul Guinan

The Boilerplate spinoff: Frank Reade!

IT’S OFFICIAL! The next project from Paul Guinan is
FRANK READE: Adventures in the Age of Invention
.

The deal with NY publisher Abrams is signed and sealed. Now Paul and co-author Anina Bennett have to deliver! It’ll be the same coffee-table format as the Boilerplate tome–a companion piece, and scheduled for fall 2011 release.

For more info about the Reades visit the Frank Reade website.

KBOO! Halloween hoax?

Portland’s KBOO radio broadcasted an interview and reading from Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel the other day. Missed it? That’s OK, you can listen to the half-hour program at the station’s archives.

The authors and interviewer presented the program as if the Victorian robot were real, and got a couple of angry calls…

Orson's broadcast ironically caps Campion's story in the Boilerplate book.

Orson's broadcast ironically caps Campion's story in the Boilerplate book.

Boilerplate in Smithsonian!

A review in the Smithsonian’s AIR & SPACE magazine leads this week’s BP press clippings.

“An amazing visual odyssey”
- The Denver Times
“A delightful and entertaining tale”
The Baryon Review
“Totally unique and totally fascinating”
- Collector’s Corner

Plus peers’ praise:
“Truly brilliant. I can’t stop looking at it”
Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
“Boilerplate is the most fascinating history book I’ve ever read”
– Tim Powers, author of The Anubis Gates

Plus, plus a new CBR Robot6 review, in addition to the CBR interview with Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.

Boilerplate helps taxi a Jenny for takeoff, 1916.

Boilerplate helps taxi a Jenny for takeoff, 1916.

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