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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

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The Boilerplate spinoff: Frank Reade!

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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