DnDMelt’s Celebrity Charity Dungeons and Dragons Event!

When: January 28, 2012. Time: 1-6 pm Where: http://meltcomics.com (online) Charity: Reach out and Read Los Angeles Http://rorLosAngeles.org @ReadTogether

Meltdown’s own Satine Phoenix (http://satinephoenix.net/) is Hosting a 4 table Celebrity gaming event. Each table, with up to 6 players per table, will be running the same adventure written by Celebrity Writer Keith Baker (creator of Eberron, who will also be DMing one of the 4 tables.)

The fundraising part of this event starts HERE!  We’re working with Stickam.com to bring to you, wherever in the world you are, Pay Per View access to each table. With a minimum payment of $1 you can watch how one table of creatives solves this adventure. Don’t limit yourself to one group, watch all 4 tables! But that’s not all, you’ll be able to purchase the adventure as a PDF for $5 to play with your own group of gamers!

The proceeds will then be announced the following Monday (allowing all who wish to continue to donate through the weekend to do so) and presented to Reach Out and Read.

What exactly is Reach Out and Read?
Reach Out and Read Is an evidence-based nonprofit organization that promotes early literacy and school readiness in pediatric exam rooms nationwide by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud.

Visit Http://rorLosAngeles.org for more info or chat with them directly on Twitter @ReadTogether

If you want more information about this event email DnD@meltcomics.com

http://www.meetup.com/DnDMelt/

Dear Los Angelinos who play D&D and/or other RPGs,

We here at DnDMelt are looking for a few good men and women to be on our team of Super Dungeon Masters. We will be running games on Thursday nights and Sunday Days. Perks for you will be *Free DnDMelt Monthly Membership! and DM swag… Amongst other things I’m wheeling and dealing for and will post about soon.

As DMs, you will be my Knights of the Round Table. I am looking for Men and Women I can rely on to show up when they say they can and be on time those days. You will not be required to DM every gaming day. I will work with whatever schedule works for you because you are my Rockstars! You are my Magic Makers. Without you we can not game.

If you are interested in DMing please email DnD@meltcomics.com with:

Name:                                  Email:                                  Phone #:

Preferred gaming platform: 
Are you willing to work with beginning players?
Do you want to run an ongoing campaign or One Shot Adventures?
Are you ok running One shots with different players each time we run gaming sessions?
How many players can you manage at a time (max amount)

This is an ongoing search. If you aren’t a DM but know of one to ask please please do. We here at DnDMelt are changing the way people see #DnD and we want you to be a part of it. Thanks everyone and I look forward to meeting you all really soon!!

-Satine DnD@meltcomics.com

More about #DnD at Meltdown here RA Salvatore at Meltdown! and here New beginnings DnDMelt with Satine DnD@Meltcomics.com #DnD

DISNEY Hyperion Book Group Presents:

NERD IS THE WORD AT MELTDOWN COMICS National Book Release of Disney Book Group’s NERD GIRLS to Draw Fans from All Over

Where: Meltdown Comics, 7522 West Sunset Blvd. L.A., CA 90046 When: Sunday, June 26, 2011 Time: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Channeling their inner nerd and celebrating quirkiness over conformity, Meltdown Comics will host the national book release of Disney Book Group’s new title NERD GIRLS by award winning author Alan Lawrence Sitomer.

A fun for everyone event that will include a musical performance by Randy Kaplan, a trivia contest hosted by the Master of Nerdishness, Josh Greenberg, plus eats, sweets, a nerd fashion show highlighting a new line of nerd apparel and a special message from California’s Teacher of the Year, 2007, as to why nerds already rule the world (in case you haven’t noticed), a fun afternoon to celebrate smarts, individuality and smiles is on tap for all.

Plus, Alan Sitomer will do an exclusive autographing of first hardcover print edition of NERD GIRLS.

My students love Nerd Girls so much, that I am glad I read it before they did, or I would not be able to retrieve our copy. I can’t wait to share this book with every Nerd Girl I know.

– Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer

5 Blings for Nerd Girls by Alan Lawrence Sitomer!!

–BooksandBling.com

“Mean Girls meets Revenge of the Nerds, middle-school style, in a novel that peeks into the lives of an offbeat cast of 13-year-olds in suburban California.”

—Publishers Weekly

Meltdown’s very own DnDMelt presents a unique Charity event starring “CELEBRITIES“ AND “Dungeons and Dragons“

Wish you could be there? Wish you could donate or hangout in the Peanut Gallery? Now you can! We have joined with Stickam.com to offer a Pay Per View window into each table’s adventure. The minimum donation per table is $1 but please feel free to donate more should you be so inclined. You will be able to comment from the Chat window where the Moderator will relay messages for you.

DnDMelt’s CCDD event is a Charity Fundraiser raising money for the Reach out and Read program here in Los Angeles.

Time: 1pm-6pm

4 tables of up to 6 celebrity gamers per table will be playing the same Adventure, choosing from a short list of Characters all written by Celebrity D&D Writer: Keith Baker who will be DMing one of the tables.

You can also purchase a PDF of the adventure for $5 to play from anywhere in the world with your friends.

Reach Out and Read (http://rorLosAngeles.org) is an evidence-based nonprofit organization that promotes early literacy and school readiness in pediatric exam rooms nationwide by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud. Reach Out and Read builds on the unique relationship between parents and medical providers to develop critical early reading skills in children, beginning at 6 months of age. The 3.8 million families served annually by Reach Out and Read read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger vocabularies, with stronger language skills, and better prepared to succeed.

SHOP LOCAL, SHOP 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!

Gallery Meltdown will be hosting a toy launch and book signing for Renee French and her recently released book, H DAY published by Picturebox, on Saturday November 27th at 6 pm.

Ms. French is pleased to partner with Meltdown & Monster5 to bring you her SLUG GIRL, sculpted from her illustration in Edison Steelhead’s Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits. Meltdown has collaborated with award-winning artist, Renee French & sculptor Monster5, to create an extremely limited edition toy, available exclusively at Meltdown. SLUG GIRL (MANUFACTURED IN LA BY PRETTY IN PLASTIC)

Coldcast Resin: 27 made. (2 artist proofs) Only 20 available SRP: $80.00
Mystery Material: Only 15 made. Only 10 will be available. SRP: $150.00

Copies of H Day, Edison Steelhead’s Portfolio, The Ticking, Mome, and Rosetta are available for purchase at the signing.

This is also the closing night reception for HIGH FIVE!! and your last chance to pick up original art by Renee French, Kozyndan, Alice Pine & Chris Stangl.

Ms. French, Kozyndan, Alice Pine & Chris Stangl will be in attendance.

Gallery Meltdown is in the rear of Meltdown Comics
7522 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 851-7223

Party sponsored by Mighty Fine, Inc.

BECOME A SCOTT-A-HOLIC!

Come on down to Meltdown for the Midnight release of Scott Pilgrim’s FINEST HOUR!

GOOD TIMES will be had.

Cookies and Coffee will be provided! Surprises to be Announced! Food and Booze provided by (???) Live Stickcam streaming of festivities by SAM PROOF! So come dressed as your favorite character and WIN WIN WIN!

WAAAY more info soon. Stay tuned!

BECOME A SCOTT-A-HOLIC!

THIS IS a COMIC BOOK EVENT! SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL STORE! SHOP LOCAL!

The latest executive produced film by Meltdown Comics Lifers Guillermo del Toro (El Mero, Mero.), and Don Murphy (ANGRY FILM) gets the heavy Sci-Fi lineage poster treatment. Following in that heritage is the second SPLICE poster found around the webbers. We all at Meltdown can not wait to see this film. The idea is fresh and the creature, with the clean design is poised to become a Monster Fan Favorite. Plus the Writer/Director Vincenzo Natali is a good guy to boot.

Best wishes to all the parties involved!

SPLICE hits theaters June 4, 2010.

Meet DREN, SPLICE “It Girl”

Image of the precocious little creature from SPLICE found at AICN. Maybe we should make a Statue or Toy of it… A figure would display great next to the Mechano Baby Head from Toy Story, Talking Tina, Pumpkin Head, the Cenobites or Mars Attack Spy Girl!

NEXT IMAGES ARE NSFW.

MORE FOUND HERE: aintitcool.com

Dan Clowes’ Wilson In Stock! *First 100 copies get a free Wilson poster

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family – a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.

Buy your copy of WILSON plus “The Christian Astronauts Newspaper Strip” or any of the great titles in D. CLOWES back catalog at Meltdown Comics then catch DAN C. LIVE! signing at “Chapters” or “Book Soup” or “Sky Light” or “B&N” or some other book store this Summer in support of WILSON.

*while supplies last