“I’ve taken classes for writing here, and had a box every week. six years ago and it’s been my regular shop ever since,” Wilkie said. “I started coming here when I moved to L.A. Photo: Juliet Bennett RylahĪmong the customers who trickled in and out on Friday afternoon was Matt Wilkie, a comedy writer who donned a yellow crown, familiar to Archie fans as Jughead Jones’ trademark cap, for the occasion. We met so many great employees, comedians, and fans-many of whom became friends.”Ĭustomers pick over the shop’s remaining wares. “They encouraged and supported us by letting us take chances, and it made us a better show. “Meltdown was a wonderful, nurturing home for an oddball show like Horrible Movie Night,” Mathot said. Even though they held their last show in March of 2017, Wright referred to the closure as “a horrible turn of events.” The first time I met the couple, they told me about their show, and I made it a point to attend as often as I could thereafter. Guests were invited to yell out jokes, MST3K-style, and the best jokes of the night would win prizes. Each time, they’d screen a terrible film with interludes from comedians. I personally enjoyed catching Horrible Movie Night, run by husband-and-wife team John Mathot and Susan Wright. None of that would have been possible without Meltdown providing such a perfect avenue for writers and fans to connect up,” Luery Shaw said. “Tom got to ask a ‘what if you were put in charge of your own Star Trek series’ question (before was put in charge of his own S tar Trek ), and I got to tell him that Pushing Daisies is what inspired me to write for the screen. Luery Shaw recalled seeing TV creator/writer/showrunner Bryan Fuller ( Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, Star Trek: Discovery and American Gods) at one of the writer’s panels. Magic.”ĭana Luery Shaw and Tom Pike are co-creators of sci-fi series Personal Space. “A stage behind a comics and collectibles shop was the perfect home for The Bitch Seat, my therapy/comedy talk show about adolescence. “It was thanks to NerdMelt and Meltdown Comics that I made the cross-country leap from New York to Los Angeles,” Lyssa Mandel, co-host of talk show The Bitch Seat told We Like L.A. It’s also where one might go for Stonecutters LA Simpsons Trivia or the Nerdist Writer’s Panel, where aspiring film and TV writers could learn tips from working Hollywood screenwriters. Nanjiani would go on to star in HBO’s Silicon Valley and receive an Academy Award nomination for The Big Sick, which he wrote with his wife and Meltdown producer Emily V. This is where Kumail Nanjiani and Johan Ray ran their Wednesday stand-up show from 2010 to 2016. Of course, it was more than just the closing of a comic shop.įor the last several years, the Nerdmelt Showroom in the back also offered a chance for writers, comedians, podcasters, and artists to practice and perform their craft. Friday, March 30 would be the very last day at Meltdown. News of the imminent closing broke when Meltdown founder Gaston Dominguez-Letelier made an announcement post on the shop’s now defunct blog. Meltdown had been in operation as a brick and mortar comic book shop for 25 years.
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