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In celebration of OG Meltdown pal Bryan Ray latest release - Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything!

Print and bring in this blog entry for 20% off the cover price. If you do not want to waste your ink and paper then come in rocking your grubbiest Punk tee and mention this post for the discount. < LOCALS ONLY & instore sales ONLY. Valid until Dec. 6 >

Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything!

By: Bryan Ray Turcotte.
Miller, Christopher T.
Hard Cover.
240 pages of PUNK Colour Illustrations!
Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of Punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favorite bands are jammed into this menacing volume. Punk is Dead is massive, featuring a wide spectrum of bands that initially catalyzed the scene, and later fueled its global expansion. Contributing writers such as Wayne Kramer, Arturo Vega, Kid Congo, David Yow, Annie Anxiety, Duane Peters, Marc McCoy, Tony Alva, Don Bolles, Trudie and Pat Smear, flesh out the visual assault. This long awaited follow-up to the highly influential bestselling book Fucked Up + Photocopied - Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement also features hard hitting interviews with Ian Mackaye, one of the most respected voices of the DIY music underground, and Malcolm McLaren, likely the most impactful promoter of the early punk movement. From the unknown to the infamous, they will likely be found within the pages of Punk is Dead, Punk is Everything!

Gaston here.

Check out the Simpsons episode form last weekend.
The front segment is based on Meltdown Comics Sunset Blvd. location.
Its written by Matt Selman, a long time regular at the MLT.

Link to Episode.

I would like to extend a big thank you to Matt Groening, Matt Selman, plus all the others creators that made the episode happen. I personally love the Simpsons since the way back. So yeah, to quote Bizarro CBG “Best Episode Ever.”

Tell a pal & spread the word.

Thank you,
G.
coolsvillecomics.com

Get your pocket protectors out, tape up  your glasses and hit up all your friend via your Iphones and MySpace, Nerdcore will be in full effect this Friday, Nov. 16th.  Meltdown’s hosting the launch of the “2008 Heroes and Villians” Nerdcore Calendar.

• Models Signing
• People Drinking
• Calendars Selling
• Plus, famed photographer Cherie Roberts
• and Geek-Revved tunes of DJ 8 Bit Weapon

Word on the street is that Heroes HC and LOEG Black Dossier are completely sold out from the distributer. 
Word here at Meltdown is don’t panic, we have a few Heroes HC left and plenty of LOEG Black Dossier HC
(Black and Blue covers). Don’t let these books slip through your fingers.  

 
Kuro-to-Shiro: Mari Inukai Solo Exhibition
Nucleus Gallery
November 17 - December 3
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17
7pm - 11pm
Check out the exclusive Melkun she designed for our 13th anniversary. 
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Best news I’ve heard all day…
But the new book by David Mazzucchelli may even be more eagerly anticipated than Spiegelman’s new work. Pantheon is publishing Asterios Polyp, Mazzucchelli’s long awaited graphic novel. A highly regarded comics professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Mazzucchelli is the author of such critically acclaimed works as the comics adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel City of Glass and worked with Frank Miller on the critically acclaimed superhero graphic novel Batman: Year One. Mazzucchelli has been working on the book for more than 10 years, and he has generally declined to say much of anything about it.

Frank also declined to say much about the book, but said the book’s title is the name of its central character, “a middle-aged architect and academic who has never actually built anything.” Frank said the character’s only accomplishment is a “book called Modernism with a Human Face and the story follow his life after he’s struck by lightning.”

If you’re reading this and you find yourself in France or England you must, MUST check out our good pal Jim Mahfood at one of his stops

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To show our support to the striking scribes, we’re giving all Guild members 10% off.  Everything in the store, for as long as the strike lasts.  Just flash your WGA card and we’ll give you your discount.  Hang in there, guys!
We also support industry workers affected too. < assistants, animators, set designers..you know who you are..> Please just let us know.
We support a resolution! MLT, INC.

I know it’s been a long time, but my new Making Good column is up today. I interview Mark Sable and David Roth (co-writers of FEARLESS, tomorrow’s new release from Image) on collaboration, why comics, overcoming obstacles and more. Plus take a look at their original script and compare it to the final pages as they will appear in issue 1!

And if this interview piques your interest, be sure to come by Meltdown tomorrow night, when Mark and Dave will both be here signing!

 Sat, Nov 10, 7:00 p.m. ArcLight 10
Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novels detail her childhood in Tehran from the overthrow of the Shah through the years of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic fundamentalist regime and the Iran-Iraq war.

This gripping personal journey from childhood through adolescence, sexual awakening to an unhappy marriage has been transformed by Satrapi and co-writer-director Vincent Parranaud into a series of animated comic-book images that provide a strangely magical viewing experience, and create an emotional terrain that’s both poignant and humorous. Satrapi is encouraged by her loving parents to flee Tehran for Vienna but life there is bittersweet. Homesickness propels her to don a veil and return home. As she sits in an airport watching planes arrive and depart, we see that she will always be in a state of exile. 

This beautifully animated film is based on Marjan Satrapi’s award -winning graphic novel Persepolis.