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A set of TMNT art including the 40 pages of original artwork from issue #1, the original pen and ink cover and the original logo design, a first printing of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, the original artwork for the inside cover, and a pencil layout for the first advertisement for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as it appeared in the Comic’s Buyers Guide, sold on eBay for $250,099.

That’s right. Over a quarter of a million dollars.

See The Scoop for the full story.

Your voice, your spirit, your heart and your soul are transformed into liquid oxygen and put to use to launch ninth iteration of the Renfield Stage Program on April 5 at the inimitable Club Good Hurt. 

Join us as we perform new songs in preparation for our next full length recording.  Thrill your companions with the happy zombie tale known as THE PREY!  Bask in the wisdom of the RING OF SOLOMON!  Uncover the secrets of THE DIVISIBLE MAN!  These stories and clown ninja shenanigans await your glorious presence.  Search the couch cushions, roll a drunken heiress or sell counterfeit Genesis tickets to raise the necessary funds – we care not a whit – but do what you must as this show is not to be missed.

RENFIELD launches our 2007 performance season at
CLUB GOOD HURT
Thursday, April 5 at 10:30 p.m.
12249 Venice Blvd  West L.A.  90066
$10/$7 with flyer  21 & over
www.goodhurt.net
www.myspace.com/theonetruerenfield
www.renfield.com

This Wednesday! (Tomorrow!) You won’t want to miss it:

Molly Crabapple hosts a night of burlesque and book signing more popularly known as DR. SKETCHY’S ANTI-ART SCHOOL!  Indulge in the intelligent pleasures of cabaret life drawing with fetish goddess Zoetica Ebb.  It matters not if you smudge charcoal, daub fingerpaint, ink flesh or transform sidewalks with three-dimensional chalk drawings – all are welcome at this celebration of fine lines.

Molly will be signing and illustratively amending copies of her new tome, DR. SKETCHY’S RAINY DAY COLOURING BOOK.  This prestigious volume contains a wild permutation of swell and swollen ideas to tickle your fancy or at least teach you how to identify other’s fancies and tickle those as well.  The book and the event compliment one another so as to transport you directly into the mind’s eye of La Crabapple and her traveling sidekicks.  If you can hold a pencil, she can improve your evening.

DR. SKETCHY’S ANTI-ART SCHOOL
AT MELTDOWN COMICS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28  7 TO 10 PM
7522 Sunset Blvd  Los Angeles, CA  90046
www.meltcomics.com   www.mollycrabapple.com
www.drsketchy.com  www.myspace.com/meltdowncomics

Via Newsarama:

 Press Release
“Read the illustrated thrill ride that inspired the forthcoming movie”
BERKELEY, CA — 20 March, 2007 — From the demented mind of Rob Zombie, comes THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, a comic about the strangest crime-fighters you’ve ever seen. With the animated feature film starring Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson and Brian Posehn soon to be released, Image Comics is collecting the entire hit series in one volume. Now is your chance to pick up the madness right where it all began! THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO is a 288 page trade paperback that collects all of the adventures of Monsterland’s avenger.
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Come by Meltdown this week to pick up your invitation for discounted tickets to see a special Midnight screening of Meet the Robinsons in Disney Digital 3-D!

That’s right! tomorrow night:

 A Soul Dressing / Meltdown Joint
Friday, March 16 at Meltdown
7522 Sunset Blvd L.A., CA 90046
323-851-7223 www.meltcomics.com
Event begins at 8:00 p.m. for those 21 & older

Featuring a sweet gallery show with photo/art collabs featuring the photography of Bill Shag and artists: Food One, Scott Morse, Dave Crosland, Codak, Lord Sseug, David Mack, Dumper Foo, Kofie, Dave Johnson, Dan Panosian, Paul Briggs, Jeff Johnson, Kai Olsen and Paper Boogie.

Free beverages provided by Coca-Cola Zero. We shall spike these suckers if you choose.

And as if that were not enough, ASK A NINJA (www.askaninja.com) shall be there from 8-9, signing and perhaps even stabbing!

Remember Captain Action? (It’s okay if you don’t…I didn’t)

From Moonstone’s press release:

Yes, that’s right, Moonstone can once again say…”He’s back!”Captain Action, that master of diguise IDEAL action figure from the late 1960’s returns!

Meltdown Comics is now the home of the weekly MONDAY MADNESS! back-issue sale!

That’s right, every Monday unmarked back issues are only A DOLLAR! It’s the perfect chance to fill the gaps in your collection or discover something you missed the first time around.
                                                                                  
Be there (every Monday) or be square (or even worse…pay full price!).

Did I mention the madness is every Monday?

Because it is.

Every Monday.