(HOPE YOU SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE!)
Join Meltdown Comics once again for the annual, the legendary, the infamous COMIC CON DECOMPRESSION PARTY
“WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES 2010″ Featuring appearances by comic book creators IVAN BRANDON, SAM HUMPHRIES, and FELIPE SMITH! Special appearance and live performance by JANE WIEDLIN of the Go-Go’s and Lady Robotika! Food! Rock! New comics fun!
Monday, July 26 at Meltdown Comics, the Comic-Con Decompression Party “WELCOME TO LA 2010″ takes place in grand style as we welcome back our brother Felipe Smith, cartoonist of the brilliant Los Angeles story MBQ and the wonderfully unhinged PEEPO CHOO which sees its first English language translation in print this month. Felipe left our shores for the distant coasts of Japan on the heels of the Tokyo-Bubble-Pop to pursue production at the source. His drive and the gamble in his heart led him to creative success and now we raise our glasses as the prodigal son returns home to Meltdown to teach us how to deepen your blacks with squid ink, and drink seawater and spit fire in the face of the gods!
Adding a bit of boss to the sauce will be Jane Wiedlin, one of the world’s greatest songwriters and a deadly talent of the stage. Jane is a megafan of genre fiction and has brought her terrifying intellect and rock bonafides to bear in the creation of her new comic LADY ROBOTIKA from Image Shadowline. Jane will be signing her comic and performing a short live set in the Melt Gallery. Be sure to ask her to tell stories about the days when the Tropicana used to be a live music venue. Hair-holding hilarity for all!
Representing from New York City in a rare West Coast appearance is Ivan Brandon, writer of VIKING, Batman, and Doc Savage! The sheer size of his impressive tome will rock your socks off. Ask him to sign it sideways for distant viewing.
Local hero Sam “The Hammer” Humphries will be welcoming the walking dead to Los Angeles, signing his new funk-as-puck CBGB comic book from BOOM! Studios! Check it out and get a FREE limited edition art print by Rob G., while supplies last! He’ll also be signing FREE Fraggle Rock posters from Archaia in advance of the highly anticipated Fraggle Rock hard cover.
All of this augmented by snacktasms served up by the Tastymeat! food truck. Man, I am going to crush a Bamwich the minute I arrive. Check their wares at www.tastymeat.org prior to your arrival and make that line short so we all get fed!
FELIPE AND PEEPO CHOO!
JANE AND LADY ROBOTIKA!
IVAN AND VIKING!
SAM AND CBGB!
MEAT MEAT MEAT!
Not everyone gets a chance to head to San Diego, so we bring the party to YOU!
COMIC-CON DECOMPRESSATHON “WELCOME TO LA 2010″
MONDAY, JULY 26th, 2010
MELTDOWN COMICS
7522 SUNSET BLVD.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046
WWW.MELTCOMICS.COM (MAP)
Giving Thanks 2010 and see you at Indy Black Friday inside Gallery Meltdown
Giving Thanks 2010!
Straight to the point. 2010 has been a pain in the ass to Meltdown, Inc., most of our business owner friends we know and the vendors we deal with. Not pretty. Still, I am eternally grateful to all of you that have given us your time and support. To my Healthy Family, Fantastic Staff, Lovely Customers, Clever Creators and Stressed out Vendors, Thank you! Collaborators, Patrons of Comedy, Mini Comics and the arts, Thank you! Sponsors, Supporters of what Meltdown Comics brings to Los Angeles and the Craft of Comic Book Retailing, Thank you.
Locals that believe in shopping at mom and pops stores, Thank you! Reporters/Bloggers of varied stripes, and media partners, Thank you for keeping our Store and our names in the public eye! All our world wide social media followers, Thank you for discussing our events and reposting them and bringing to our attention all the awesome products and ideas that are out there in the wild! All the institutions of higher learning we work with and that have taken to our way of doing things, Thank you!
To our partners and to all the companies that hire us to consult, really Thank you!
To my closest pal in the whole world and his beautiful wife “MUCHAS GRACIAS POR EL AUTOGOL CABRON!“
Really Los Angeles, after 18 yrs in business thru the triumphs and the tears — you have given me lots of both. — I love you, fear you and admire all the chances you have given my store and myself to renew, rebuild, and recharge!
If I was a writer I would polish this and have a great ending for it, but I am not. Just a fan of comic books that appreciates your continued support and business!
Your always,
Gaston D.-L.
Some pictures from 1993! Check it, Hair!