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The “Little Lulu” Mystique

Posted by Jen Gruskoff on March 16, 2010 at 10:00am

Little Lulu, created by Marge Buell in 1935, has been a part of my life since I took my five-year-old daughter, Ava to Meltdown, an impressive comic book shop on the Sunset Strip. We needed to buy a gift for a friend of hers, and were looking for something off the beaten path of Target and Toys-R-Us. I thought that Meltdown would be a fun place to check out. Little did I know that I would be making many trips here, mostly for gifts for Ava, over the next several years.

At Meltdown, you can find a great selection of comic books, new and old, collectibles, toys and cool clothes for infants and babies. But it was the big-mouthed girl with the black oval eyes and what looks like cinnamon buns on her head that caught Ava’s attention. Ava hadn’t started reading then, but I could see she was really trying hard to work out the narrative of the story. It was fascinating to watch. What parent doesn’t love to see their kid with a book? So, I  bought it for her, and it has literally been a four year love affair between Ava and Lulu.

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Los Angeles – Style Council – LA’s Meltdown Comics Brings the Party to Comic-Con with Nerd Prom 2099.

Liz Ohanesian

Comic-Con, where even the bartenders can be geeky for a few days.

Just because you’re nerdy enough to spend the bulk of your Thursday in line to get the goods on the upcoming Avatar film or blew your dinner money on a Darth Luke USB flash drive doesn’t mean you don’t know how to party. And so the folks at LA’s mecca of comic book art, Meltdown, threw Nerd Prom 2099 — a party where the geeks aren’t necessarily the wallflowers.

Liz Ohanesian

Tux T-shirts, a staple of every retro nerd wardrobe.

The special for this evening was the Nerd Prom Bomb, which I overheard people recommend during the course of the night.. Served by four-eyed, cape-crusading bartenders, the Nerd Prom Bomb mixes Tibetan tea and vodka served sake bomb style. It’s a strange drink, but maybe that’s kind of fitting.

Liz Ohanesian

Partying hard at Comic-Con

We saw a small crew of people who had practically cosplayed their geekiness, wearing bow ties and horn-rimmed glasses in a costumed way, but even those who showed up in their ordinary con gear looked pretty far removed from what you would normally see in nightclub. Dancing with a backpack filled with electronic equipment and junk food may not be fun, but it can be done. Proving that the Comic-Con crowd isn’t terribly different from the Hollywood crowd, Meltdown brought DJ Franki Chan to the party where he played the usual mix of Daft Punk and MGMT that still seems to pack dance floors. The crowd loved it, just like they loved those Nerd Prom Bombs.

Liz Ohanesian

Waiting for the perfect beat.

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