Day: January 23, 2011

Comics Events in LA: Week of 1/23/11

You don’t have to sit at home alone reading to get into comic books and graphic novels. There are always great events going on that celebrate the vitality and creativity of comics. Just here in Los Angeles, there are more events I can ever make. But I try, and so should you. You never know what you’ll discover.

Here are some local Los Angeles events coming up that celebrate the sequential art form.

This week:

Monday, January 24, 7 PM: Tales of the Extraordinary, a 1920s pulp radio serial, spend the month performing their live story “Islands” using the audience as sound FX at Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 90046. Tickets: $8.

Wednesday, January 26: NEW COMICS DAY! Find your local comics specialty shop.

Wednesday, January 26, 8 PM: Comics podcast Bagged & Boarded with SModcastle’s Matt Cohen and Brendan Creecy with special guest Reginald Hudlin (Black Panther) has a live show broadcast at SModcastle, 6468 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles 90038. Tickets: $10. (more…)

And we’re back!

Thanks for hanging in there. The computer is back up and running with a bigger hard drive and faster operating system. And all under warranty! Thank you, Apple Genius Bar!

Lesson learned: when people suggest backing up your files, they actually think it’s a good idea for a very good reason. I probably recovered about 80-90% of our files, so not too bad actually. Definitely could’ve been much worse.

Regularly scheduled blogging will resume with more regularity in a regular fashion.

To your right, a visual representation of the repair process courtesy of the documentarians at I Can Has Cheezburger.