Tabloia Mailer #9614
Greetings Fans! What a lot of news we have to share (compared to last mailer, when there was literally no news!)!
DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES
Your favorite Private Investigator, DICK HAMMER, is back on the scene at last, in a “daily newspaper strip”-style web comic – coming to you ONCE A WEEK! (or so)!! Go to www.chriswisniaarts.com, (and check out our HOT new web design!), then click on “DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES!”
What can you expect of DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES? Mystery! Murder! Arson! Action! An attempted murder that leaves a man in a wheelchair! Suspense! Not one but TWO cases of amnesia! Mistaken identities! Love gone sour…DEADLY SOUR! THAT is the daily life of DICK HAMMER: PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR!
Ace artistic hack Chris Wisnia, DICK HAMMER’S writer/artist, just finished scripting chapter one of this immense adventure! It’s slotted at 52 entries – but that could expand as he works on the art! You mathematicians may be able to calculate that at our once-a-week-or-so schedule, it will take us A YEAR, JUST to get chapter one out! That’s why we here at TABLOIA WEEKLY MAGAZINE intend for this web comic to win the award for “most excrutiatingly slow-moving web-comic of all time!” See why RIGHT NOW! Go to WWW.TABLOIA.COM and look at how we pull out all the stops … for slow!
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ITEM!
The prestigious EAGLE AWARDS out of the UK have opened their nominations for the best comics of the year! Have no misunderstandings: this first stage of the process is a strict popularity-contest, like nominating your high school Prom King! And as you already know, we at Tabloia Weekly Magazine are the most unpopular nerd in this allegorical high school, and we are crying out to our only (two) friends (YOU! And you!), and desperately begging you both to please vote for us, for Prom King!
Please don’t delay in clicking http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nominate.asp and voting us in every category, even if it doesn’t apply! We did!
They will ask you to submit your name, email address, age, and country of residence! That means you may feel free to vote for everyone whose name, email, and age you know! Vote for your parents and siblings! For your Grandparents! For six-month-old or two-month-old babies! Ex-girlfriends! They would WANT you to vote for Tabloia!
To make things easy for you, we’ve made a chart of EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT YOU TO VOTE! Why? So you don’t have to think for yourselves! BUT ALSO … because if one of you two fans votes for “Dr. DeBunko” and the other one votes for “Doris Danger,” our two votes will be split, and we’ll technically only get ONE vote! And then someone with the SAME POPULARITY OF TABLOIA (or even someone with THREE FRIENDS) will beat us BY ONE VOTE (or two)! WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN, FRIENDS! (Unless, for some reason, you would prefer to vote for books that YOU actually WANT to vote for! In that case, vote appropriately)! HERE IS WHAT WE WANT YOU TO VOTE:
FAVOURITE COMICS WRITER: CHRIS WISNIA!
FAVOURITE COMICS WRITER/ARTIST: CHRIS WISNIA!
FAVOURITE COMICS ARTIST: PENCILS: CHRIS WISNIA!
FAVOURITE COMICS ARTIST: INKS: CHRIS WISNIA!
FAVOURITE LETTERER: CHRIS WISNIA!
FAVOURITE EDITOR: ROB ODER! (this vote is ESSENTIAL, because as you know, I AM A FICTITIOUS PERSON! I DON’T EVEN EXIST, so who could be a better winner of this award, I ask??!)
FAVOURITE BLACK AND WHITE COMICBOOK: AMERICAN: DORIS DANGER!
FAVOURITE NEW COMIC BOOK: DORIS DANGER!
FAVOURITE COMICS STORY PUBLISHED DURING 2006: DR. DEBUNKO: WHEN HUMAN FLESH BURSTS INTO FLAMES!
FAVOURITE COMICS COVER PUBLISHED DURING 2006: THE LUMP cover by DAMON THOMPSON
FAVOURITE REPRINT COMPILATION: DR. DEBUNKO!
FAVOURITE COMICS CHARACTER: DR. DEBUNKO!
FAVOURITE COMICS VILLAIN: KRAKAPOO! (from DORIS DANGER)
FAVOURITE COMICS-RELATED WEBSITE: WWW.TABLOIA.COM!
FAVOURITE WEB-BASED COMICS: DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST! (what the heck? It’s worth a try!)
In our war-torn, politically-ambivalent, confusing, difficult, high-unemployment, crime-ridden world, the most important, most AMERICAN step you can take is, of course, voting for your favorite comic for a British Comic Award! THANKS for doing your part! That’s http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nominate.asp , fans!
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REVIEWS!
My how the reviews continue to flood in!
Nice review of the DORIS DANGER books AND DR. DeBUNKO by by Marc Mason at http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/indies4.html
Nice review of the DORIS DANGER books by Troy Brownfield at http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=94644
Nice review AND interview of the DORIS DANGER treasury by Rob Kelly at http://www.treasurycomics.com/gallery/misc34doris.htm
Nice Dr. DeBunko review by Leigh Anne Wilson at the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society http://liheliso.com/buzz/archive/00000680.htm
Nice mention of the Doris Danger books by “Matty-Matt” at http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/12/18/the_decontextualized_adventures_of_the_superfisters.php
Nice review of the Doris Danger books by Johnny Bacardi at
http://johnnybacardi.blogspot.com/2006/12/bacardi-show-new-comics-revue-opinions.html
Nice summary of the Doris Danger books at by Paul Dale Roberts at http://forums.jazmaonline.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=71
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Thanks for reading, fans! Next newsletter will officially announce DORIS DANGER’S upcoming 64-page HUMONGOUS TREASURY, in stores July 2007!
Until then,
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com
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