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Industry-leading and highly prominent comic book store Meltdown Comics of Sunset Boulevard,  Los Angeles closed down for good back in 2018 after twenty-five years.  Famous for appearing in many movies and TV shows, with a prominent A-list actor customer base and a tendency to hit all manner of headlines, with promotions, launches and premieres[...]

The top problem plaguing television (especially broadcast networks) today? Serious lack of diversity. Here's why all that "whiteness" isn't a good thing...

Meltdown Comics is a stalwart of the Los Angeles comic book scene It opened in 1993 on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, right in the heart of Hollywood. It's now one of the largest in the country It is frequented by Hollywood glitterati It's where the stars of stage and screen go to buy their comic[...]

The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail is coming to an end on October 19th Announced on the series website, the stand-up series has run for three years on Comedy Central and is filmed in an L.A comic shop called Meltdown The series is shot documentary style and starred Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani and have[...]

Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Mahfood, Shawn Alexander will be creating a piece of Bernie Sanders art a Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles on Saturday evening, hosted by Kate Nash with Hal Helfer consuming everything in sight… And there are also Bill Sienkiewicz Bernie Sanders T-shirts for sale… will you be going? Let me know… [...]

Now Caps is organizing a signing at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles on Saturday August 16th from 4 to 6 pm Here is what they had to say and the flyer. Ladies and gentlemen, CAPS is happy to announce that TWENTY-ONE artists will be attending a signing of our "Sakai Project" book this Saturday, August 16th,[...]

Neal Adams is appearing at Meltdown Comics on Saturday June 28th in Los Angeles. He will be showing a rough clip of his new animated comic, using CGI and based on the Blood series published by Dark Horse (and soon to be collected with a 3D lentucular cover of its own, DC-style) with a Q&A to follow. Then Adams[...]

Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics became the first bricks'n'mortar comic shop to officially accept the digital currency Bitcoin as a method of payment. The lucky purchaser was Bleeding Cool photographer (and so much more) Pinguino Kolb She writes, I used Blockchain on my iphone to buy Daniel Clowes's Death Ray book Francisco rang up the order on a[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbWubXGFUs[/youtube] From Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, the founder of BoingBoing Mark Frauenfelder interviews Daniel Clowes on the release of The Art Of The Modern Cartoonist: Daniel Clowes. I understand that the publisher, Abrams, printed rather low and has already sold out, and it will disappear from distributors' lists rather soon…. [...]