This weekend Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma gang were in town for the Villain Arts Tattoo Convention, to promote Lloyd’s latest movie, Shakespeare’s Shitstorm. If you're in the NYC area, snag some tickets for the NY premiere on April 8th!
Oldschool NG fans may recall NG goes way back with Troma; the first paid game project I ever did was an Ask The Penis Monster game to promote Tromeo & Juliette (directed by James Gunn, who went on to make Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker).
Troma went on to host Newgrounds from 1999-2003 as part of their Tromaville network. During those years I had a bunch of Troma escapades, including visits to their office in NYC, a location scout at an abandoned asylum in upstate New York, a trip to Park City for Tromadance and most infamously, my trip to the Playboy Mansion, where I got my eyes gouged out in The Toxic Avenger IV.
Speaking of the Toxic Avenger, Legendary Films has wrapped filming on a new big budget Toxie movie starring Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon. Exciting!
Back to this weekend, I met up with Lloyd and Rocko Zevenbergen for lunch at Monster Vegan, a horror-themed vegan restaurant just a few blocks from the convention center. Rocko has been helping the Troma team but also has his own film, I Need You Dead, available on DVD and streaming via Amazon!
The owners of Monster Vegan were huge Troma fans and were excited to meet Lloyd. They even made a post about it on their Instagram afterwards. I highly recommend Monster Vegan, whether you’re vegan or not! They have great cocktails, too.
After lunch Lloyd and Rocko got me into the convention center to check out the tattoo convention and the Troma booth. I didn’t know what to expect at a tattoo convention but it was indeed lots of people getting tattoos! The Philly event is apparently the largest tattoo convention in the country.
One of the things Troma was promoting at the convention was their campaign to dominate the #oscarfanfavorite hashtag. If you’d like to help, make a tweet that includes #oscarsfanfavorite and #shakespearesshitstorm. You could also re-tweet tweets by others.
For example, here’s a tweet from the premier at PhilaMOCA. PhilaMOCA is also where we celebrated Pico Day 2019, for you trivia buffs.
Lloyd previously made it to the NG office for Pico Day 2014. It’s crazy how time flies and I’m happy I got to hang out with Lloyd and the Troma gang again. It was also nice just being out in the world, after two years of not getting out much! I used to make so many story posts like this back in the day and it's been nice to make another. Hope you enjoyed reading!
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