Tabloia Mailer #1974
Hello again, fans!
At last, THE LUMP TRADE PAPERBACK hit stores this week! More news soon, as we receive reviews, reader feedback, and critical attention!
Hello? Yoo hoo? Anybody out there? (The wind blows desolately through our otherwise still and silent offices, gently stirring unfinished comics pages while we desperately wait for some sign that someone picked the book up … )
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SPECIAL CALL TO ARTISTS, SELF-PUBLISHERS, PROFESSIONALS, FANS, COMICS SHOPS…anybody who’s interested!
After almost a full year of promising our tech-boys would do a massive revamp of our WEBSITE, we’ve finally added a BRAND-NEW and FUN WEBSITE FEATURE! We’ve set up a LINKS PAGE in the Doris Danger “Jack Kirby-style giant monster” theme! You’re all invited to contribute! Draw a sketch of a giant monster of your choice! If you’d like to link your sketch to a website or email, let us know! Your sketch is your link to giant-monster stardom!
What a fun and unique links page! Even if you don’t want to draw, paint, photograph, or whatever, please feel free to click over and see some of the great artists, indie-self-publishers, and fans who’ve contributed so far! Check it out at http://www.chriswisniaarts.com/fans.shtml. We guarantee it’s going to be so popular, it’ll get better every time you check in!
While you’re there, feel free to support the indie comics artists and friends who provided them! Visit their websites, read their comics, and buy their stuff!
If the link doesn’t work, go to our website, www.chriswisniaarts.com, click on either of the books displayed, then click “fans giant monsters” in the index.
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It’s official! We’ve submitted “DR. DeBUNKO: DEBUNKER OF THE SUPERNATURAL: THE SHORT STORIES” to Diamond, for August Previews and October Release.
Just confirmed yesterday, Dr. DeBunko’s and Chris’s idol, Michael Shermer, director of the Skeptic Society and author of “Why We Believe Weird Things,” agreed to “blurb” the publication! Wow!
Here’s the press release:
DR. DeBUNKO: DEBUNKER OF THE SUPERNATURAL: THE SHORT STORIES
By Chris Wisnia
See the debunker of the supernatural in action, matching wits against misinformed, stubborn, backwater, uneducated and superstitious folk around the globe! Only he can hope to make the world a safer, more rational place, as he opposes beliefs in corpse-eating werewolves; cattle mutilations; spontaneous combustion; sex-craved succubi, incubi, and the devil himself; and more! Collecting eleven of the master of debunkery’s adventures, including his rare mini-comics!
” … The coolest, hippest thing to hit skepticism since Lisa Simpson began reading /Junior Skeptic magazine (when Homer had his alien abduction experience) … ” – Michael Shermer Ph.D. (director of the
Skeptics Society and author of “Why People Believe Weird Things).
” … Perfect examples of deadpan humor.” – Fourthrail.com.
“I find myself laughing … every time.” – Aintitcoolnews.com.
” … Some of my favorite stuff.” -Comixfan.com.
Mature audiences/32 pages/b&w/comic-sized. $3.95.
See August’s Previews for October release!
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Enjoy, and thanks,
Rob Oder
Editor-in-Chief and Proud Publisher of “The Lump,” “Dr. DeBunko,” and “Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures!”