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Panel Discussion – Graphic novel previews – Time Out New York.
If you’re looking for really subversive takes on the story of Adam and Eve, R. Sikoryak’s Masterpiece Comics (Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95) will do you dandy. Sikoryak mashes up familiar comics-page staples with highbrow literary-canon fodder and comes up with funny pages that crackle with clever resonance. So, in Sikoryak’s Garden of Eden story, put-upon everyman Dagwood Bumstead stands in for Adam, his imperious boss J.C. Dithers plays the part of God, and cute-but-clueless wife Blondie becomes Blond Eve. Many of Sikoryak’s mash-ups are inspired. The author reframes Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as a 1940s Batman story, revealing both stories to be grim melodramas with central characters who exploit the tension between law and responsibility. Whether it’s The Picture of Dorian Gray as a Little Nemo riff, Ziggy as Candide, or Macbeth done in the Mary Worth style, you can’t dismiss any of the works as simple gags, because Sikoryak consistently fuses the core strengths of each to create a punchy, surprising hybrid.
BOOM! STUDIOS
HOLIDAY PARTY ’09
AT MELTDOWN IN LOS ANGELES
December 10th, 2009 – Los Angeles, CA – It’s about that time again when holiday spirit takes over Meltdown Comics in the form of the BOOM! Studios Holiday Party!
Everyone and anyone is invited to our holiday event next Friday, December 18th, as we spread some merry cheer at Meltdown Comics.
Who: The BOOM! Crew. Mix and mingle with Mark Waid, Ross Richie, Michael Alan Nelson, Matt Gagnon and more!
When: Friday, December 18th, 8:00pm – till they kick us out!
Where: Meltdown Comics & Collectibles
7522 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90046
Why: FREE BEER while supplies last!
About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry’s biggest talents, including Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company’s FARSCAPE, and the original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE. BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar’s THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney’s THE MUPPETS, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE and WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES. This year, BOOM! Studios celebrates its fourth anniversary.
Last chances to get your perfect collectible holiday gift, they’re going fast.
Signed Lobo: Highway to Hell #1 
Signed by Scott Ian
Signed Mayhem #1 Meltdown Exclusive Cover
Signed by Tyrese Gibson
Meltcast 7 December 16th, 2009 « Meltcast
Meltcast 7 December 16th, 2009 « Meltcast.