8-bit Buddy Holly from Jason Liwag on Vimeo.
Anamanaguchi at Meltdown Comics does an 8-bit cover of Weezer’s timeless Buddy Holly. =w=
Check out the pics> Photoset by Pinguino
Another photoset. Thanks Rad Nerd
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MELTDOWN COMICS & GIRLS and CORPSES MAGAZINE present:
Summer Alien Autopsy issue Signing and Event
There will be HOT girls, COLD corpses, a real Alien, Celebs, Bands, Lindsay Lohand and the S.S. (Sexy Surprises) Signing this “out of the world” issue of Girls and Corpses Magazine will be: ROBERT STEVEN RHINE (“Corpsy”) Publisher/Deaditor-In-Chief of Girls and Corpses Magazine CAMDEN TOY (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer” Dr. Autopsy) BROOKE LEWIS (iMurders; Ms. Vampy/Snooki From Jersey Gore) HEATHER TOCQUIGNY (Spank Bank/Bronco Cheerleader/Jersey Gore) MARTA ZOLYNSKA (Entourage, Alien Autopsy) MIKE DUSI and JEREMY LUKE (Real life Jersey Gore guidos!) JIM SMITH co-creator of Ren & Stimpy
Friday August 20th from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
MELTDOWN COMICS
7522 Sunset Blvd LA CA 90046
And featuring two fabulous bands featured in Girls and Corpses Magazine:
THE FABULOUS MISS WENDY
Watch her animated music video:
and
THE REACH AROUND RODEO CLOWNS will be premiering their new music video, from their hit single, “Bodies In My Basement.” http://www.lanarkrecords.net/music.html
Featuring sizzling adult star, SCARLETT FAY, who portrays Lindsay Lohan in ‘Hustler’s Untrue Hollywood Stories: Lindsay Goes to Jail,’ signing DVD’s. So please arrive in your most fashionable prison attire!
And if that isn’t enough… and God know it should be!…
the infamously dead COUNT SMOKULA (“Trasharella” “The Count Smokula Show”) will be playing famous scores from porn movies on his instrument….er… accordian.
Hearse will be provided by Have Hearse Will Travel
There is a 5.00 cover for the event which goes to the Feed a Corpse Foundation
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
New Yorks premiere 8bit rock band ANAMANAGUCHI is coming to Los Angeles to play at MELTDOWN COMICS! Using a hacked gameboy and NES to play on top of live rock n roll, these guys put on a hell of a show. Ananmanaguchi also wrote all the music for the Scott Pilgrim vs The World video game, as well as the intro music used for the NERDIST PODCAST, and numerous original songs for G4tvs WEB SOUP. So come on out for this special JONAH RAY’S MELTDOWN PRESENTS, as it will be a dance party to remember.
Purchase tixs On-line – $10.00
Purchase tixs at Door – $12.00
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.
Join Meltdown Comics once again for the annual, the legendary, the infamous COMIC CON DECOMPRESSION PARTY! 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 Robotica! Food! Rock! New comics fun!
MONDAY, JULY 26TH, 2010
FESTIVITIES BEGIN AT 7PM
MELTDOWN COMICS
7522 SUNSET BLVD.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046
323.851.7223
@meltdowncomics
plus the Tasty Meat Truck will be here serving delicious goodness plus Free drinks in the gallery!
Digital comics: Nemesis or sidekick to comic book culture?
Some say the animation and sound effects threaten the aesthetic foundation and could wipe out comic shops. Others say the medium is bringing badly needed new readers and innovation.
Chris Rosa manages Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. New readers who become interested in digital comic books might eventually want to collect paper issues, but “the jury is still out on that one,” Rosa said. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times / July 21, 2010)
It’s a book! It’s a cartoon! It’s … digital comics!
Technology, which has already upended the music, television and movie businesses, is now gripping the comic book world. Publishers are unleashing a torrent of digital comic books across smart phones, tablet devices, game consoles and digital book readers, portending major changes in how comics are made and marketed.
Read the rest of the article here.
