Tabloia Mailer #6290
Wow, fans! Do we have a couple announcements this month!
ITEM!
Chris Wisnia’s “DORIS DANGER SEEKS … WHERE URBAN CREATURES CREEP AND STOMP,” the most patriotic comic of the season, is in stores at last! So don’t delay! Leave the phone off the hook with the other line asking, “Hello? Hello?” Jump out of the shower with the water still running! Leave the garden hose squirting the neighbor’s fence and flooding out their flower garden! Leave the fridge door open, and your half-made sandwich and jars of mustard and mayonnaise still out on the counter! Rush out to your local comic shop, by foot, by bike or automobile, by scuba flippers, by motor-sickle, unicycle, or airplane! Crash through those comic shop doors, your parachute dragging behind you! Limp with exhaustion to the counter, and pant out of breath, “At last … Doris … huff hugg … I need Doris … Where … huff…is she?”
It’s the comic that made Chris Mautner at Newsarama.com say: “OK, this wins the best title of the week, hands down.”
That’s “DORIS DANGER SEEKS … WHERE URBAN CREATURES CREEP AND STOMP” from Salt Peter Press (64 pages/B&W/humongous treasury-size 9″x13″/$11.95/DIAMOND ORDER NUMBER: MAY07 3695)
For product info, check out http://chriswisniaarts.com/doris_urban.shtml
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ITEM of historical note!
Holy cow! ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE!
As the warehouses fill to bulging capacity here at Salt Peter Press’s headquarters …
For the first time, Tabloia’s ace artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, has decided to sell a small portion of his original art! The shedding of artwork will officially kick off at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con! However, we wanted to give you extra-special, extra-dedicated fans, who have actually read the stories and supported us in the past, the opportunity to pick up any pages you might like, before anyone else has a chance to see they’re available!
Here’s what Chris will be dumping:
1. Complete Dick Hammer, Doris Danger, and Dr. DeBunko stories as two-six page sets! (Dick Hammer dailies not included)
2. Select stand-alone Doris Danger pages, including a few covers and splash pages!
3. The four page Lump epilogue!
4. A small selection of individually priced Ojo pages!
Pages are generally priced at around $100 (for regular “boring” pages) to $350 (for exciting splashes) each, plus a flat $25 shipping and insurance per order! (Story sets can run in the $250-$850 range depending on the number of pages!) Pages will be safely shipped between sheets of masonite!
If you are interested (or just curious), please feel free to write to us! We’ll send you a price list for your consideration!
Thanks for looking, fans!
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Informative! Educational! A Brief History of the Success of Doris Danger’s comics!
Doris’s new comic was ruthlessly promoted, and that ruthless promotion saw an unprecedented TEN PERCENT INCREASE IN SALES from her previous humongous treasury-sized issue! That’s a particularly big deal if you consider that most comics see a decrease in sales every issue!
What does that mean in actual profits? It means we only lost two thousand dollars on this issue! (NOT including the $1000 plus cost of all our advertising; or the hundreds of thousands of dollars it cost to commission all those great pin-ups; or the bribe money to get notes of endorsement from literally a dozen of the top professionals in the industry; or the literally hundreds of additional sweat-pumping hours making phone calls/sending emails and flyers/visiting message boards/blabbing at podcasts and radio shows and television broadcasts/producing and promoting spam and trying to get it into the hands of potential buyers/ tromping out and begging at comic shop and executive doors, one at a desperate time/despairingly, irretrievably trying to make friends at myspace.com and then using them like hookers to spread the word!)
You can imagine, with that kind of success, year after year, and issue after issue, how pissed the IRS is getting at us now! (Can’t imagine? Then stay tuned! You can read the zany adventures of our IRS audit in an upcoming “Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist” blog! Go to https://chriswisniaarts.com/blog/ … in about nine months!)
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Thanks for reading, fans, and we hope to see you at Comic-Con San Diego, Wizard World Chicago, or Dragon*Con Atlanta this season! You can find info on those cons at http://chriswisniaarts.com/appearances.shtml
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UNSUBSCRIBE? Well naturally! What took you so long? Just reply to this email with the heading, “I’ve had enough from you morons!”
Thanks for reading, fans!
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com