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. “8years ago told me to start my own monthly comedy show in the back room of So I did,” Ray said in an Instagram post Wednesday. Gordon and Jonah Ray, which in turn was turned into “The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail,” a stand up show that ran on Comedy Central from 2014-2016.Īlso Read: That Time Kumail Nanjiani Found His Full 'The Big Sick' Movie on PornHub (Video) Most notably, beginning in 2010 the showroom was host to a weekly standup series from Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. The shop partnered with Nerdist for The Nerdist Showroom, a small comedy stage adjacent to the comic shop featuring shows by up and coming alt-comedians, and serving as a launching pad for many promising careers. Meltdown also became an important part of L.A.’s comedy scene. Not just a must-stop for shoppers, Meltdown was also beloved by comics professionals –indeed, the one-eyed alien mascot “Mel” was designed by Daniel Clowes, best known as the author of “Ghost World,” made into an acclaimed 2001 film directed by Terry Zwigoff. “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.”Īlso Read: Here's What 'The Walking Dead' Seems to Be Doing to Justify Keeping Negan Alive (Commentary)įounded in 1993, Meltdown long served as a Hollywood HQ for all things dork, selling new titles, back issues, and a plethora of toys and collectibles to generations of comics fans. “As is the case with all good things, at some point they must come to an end,” Dominguez-Letelier wrote. Meltdown Comics founder Gaston Dominguez-Letelier made the announcement Wednesday in a post to the shop’s official blog. The shop, whose iconic alien mascot “Mel” graced Sunset Boulevard for more than two decades, is closing its doors forever on April 1. You will be missed.Meltown Comics, an institution of Los Angeles geekdom and the home of Comedy Central’s “The Meltdown With Jonah and Kumail,” is closing its doors next month. Here's hoping Meltdown Comics has something else exciting in store, especially since the website asks you to sign up for a newsletter that will clue you in to what the next 25 years will bring.įarewell, Meltdown Comics. Gaston Dominguez-Letelier doesn't shine a light on why Meltdown Comics is closing, but Nerdist seems to imply that it might have something to do with the real estate market in the area, since luxury condos are being built on certain parts of the famous Sunset Boulevard.Įven though I'm not a Los Angeles resident, I was lucky enough to check out Meltdown Comics a couple times while I was there, and I'm truly bummed that I won't be able to do that again. 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. As 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.
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