Then started hanging out, he brought and they thought it would be fun to try and make this into a tv show. Then brought and Kloc asked if he could make flyers for the show. I said “what if you checked out my monthly show, if you like it, let’s turn it into a weekly show”. while getting dinner with and I one night they said they had to check out a venue because they wanted to start a weekly comedy show. Gaston said I should take it weekly, I said I didn’t have the time or energy to book and host a weekly show by myself. For about a year me and yelled at eachother a bunch while slung beers in the back. Gordon, and Jonah Ray, was filmed there from 2010-2016, becoming a Comedy Central series in the process.Ĩyears ago told me to start my own monthly comedy show in the back room of So I did. The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, conceived by Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. The stage was formed as a joint venture with Nerdist, providing an outlet for alternative comedy. It’s one of the few comic shops that has gained nationwide recognition thanks to its NerdMelt Showroom and what that performance venue has meant to the L.A. If you live outside Los Angeles, you might not know about Meltdown Comics. In signing off, I urge you all to continue creating comics, buying comics, and supporting the comic book world that has given us all so much over the years. For 25 years I have been enriched by every inquisitive mind I have encountered on this journey and for that I humbly thank you, all of you. Throughout it all, I’ve been most fortunate to be surrounded by my family and the best staff anyone could have ever wished for – through thick and thin you supported Meltdown and invested in me, I will never be able to repay you but know that I am eternally grateful and forever in your debt.Īs I prepare to extinguish Sunset’s neon know that there is a new path for me (more later) and I close Meltdown without any regret. It has been my personal privilege to welcome so many incredibly talented minds through our doors giving them and their work a home in this great city of ours.Īnd what a wonderfully surreal run it’s been… we’ve watched every fad, trend, and next big thing come and go while customers became celebrities, children blossomed to adults, geeks morphed into moguls, and fanboys scored Oscars. No business is easy, least of all one rooted in paper surrounded by brick and mortar, yet against all odds we survived just long enough to host, share, and celebrate some of the most creative and imaginative artists in the world. Meltdown Comics is no exception to this rule and so, after 25 years coveting every comic treasure we could lay our hands on, I’m sharing that on March 30th I’ll be closing our doors for the final time. As is the case with all good things, at some point they must come to an end.
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