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I wanted to take a minute to let you know everything I’ve posted since my last “Weekly Reckoning.”

First of all, for all of YOU, my much appreciated $1 Patreon Patrons, I’ve created PDF’s of all the chapters that are so far posted over at my Doris Danger semi-interactive web comic!  You can get them at Patreon.com/ChrisWisniaArts, OR, at the web comic, on the first page of each chapter (you can begin at Chapter One), right below the splash page, you will see a link to download.  Then click the next chapter (“Chpt. 2,” then go to Chpt. 2 and click “Chpt. 3,” and so on) and repeat.

Next up, and again for YOU kind $1 Patrons… YOU can now read the ENTIRE six-chapter saga, “The Lump,” beginning HERE. (The first chapter is free to everyone!)

The Lump is the first comic I wrote, produced, and published.  It began serialization in 2004, as the lead story in my pseudo-anthology, “Tabloia Weekly Magazine #572.”  It’s a self-conscious noir/horror mystery of a body that was found on the freeway, run over so many times it’s in pieces.  The story examines our culture’s fascination with body mutilation.

Next up (for YOU kind $4 Patrons), I uploaded a couple chapters of audio commentary, where I talk at tediously thorough length about the creation of my “Spider Twins” encyclopedia!  You can listen to those here:

Spider Twins Commentary, track 3. Chapter Two
Spider Twins Commentary, track 4. Chapter Three

If you want to listen to the first two tracks, or read some Spider Twins entries, you can check it all out HERE!  Notice that EIGHTEEN (!!) encyclopedic entries are posted, and six of them are free to the public to view (for better or worse!)

Next up, I wanted to give something really special this week to YOU kind $4 Patrons, so I compiled a PDF of the early Doris Danger’s GIANT MONSTER splash pages – ONLY the splashes! – from my Doris Danger comics!  I hope you enjoy them!

Last of all, for YOU kind $7 Patrons, you can see:

36. KELLEY JONES (approx. 7:45) – DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST

There’s a master list of all the videos we’ve posted HERE (“Patron-only” as well as publicly posted), or you can go to our Youtube channel to stream all (27, currently) of the publicly posted videos!

Enjoy!  And Happy New Year!  I’m looking forward to sharing A  LOT more work with you in 2019!
-Chris

Hope everyone is having a good holiday!

As usual, with the vacation in full swing, I haven’t managed to get as much accomplished as I’d like here at Tabloia, HOWEVER…

Since my last recorded weekly accounting for myself and my creative progress, I’ve posted the following “Diary of A Struggling Comics Artist” documentary video clips, for all YOU kind $7 Patreon patrons:

32. SAM KIETH (approx. 6:00) – DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Sam Kieth discusses having Chris Wisnia help draw his Ojo comic for Oni Press.

33. BILL SIENKIEWICZ (approx. 3:55) – DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Bill Sienkiewicz explains how he began to develop his own artistic style

34. OSCAR and BORIS – The School Drop-Off (approx. 3:30) – DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST
Comics creator Chris Wisnia shares his kids’ daily pre-school drop-off routine.

NON-$7 Patrons – DON’T WORRY!  A new free video is posted every week!  Check out this amazing list of interviews available to you!

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All YOU kind $1/month Patrons at my Patreon.com/ChrisWisniaArts can now enjoy THE LUMP here at the website, beginning HERE.  The entire story except the last half of the last chapter is posted, and I hope to get those last few pages posted shortly.  If you’re NOT a $1/month Patron, there’s an 8-page sample of the covers and inside covers AND the first six pages of actual comics story, FREE TO ALL!

The Lump was my first published comics effort (originally published in serial form in my tabloid pseudo-anthology, Tabloia Weekly Magazine.  It’s a film noir/mad scientist/ tabloid horror mystery of a body found in pieces on the freeway, and the cops, coroner, private detective, tattoo artist, and drug dealer who got involved!

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In addition, I’ve begun incorporating the BRAND-NEW, FULL-COLOR, not-yet-published pages of “Doris Danger volume 3: More Doris Danger Adventures” into the Doris Danger web comic.  Volume Three starts with four pages of intro HERE, and then the first seven-page story is HERE ! There are also a couple more new splash pages thrown in there as well, and if you click the “FIRST” Monster Liberation Army tab, you’ll “flash back” to a flashback of their leader’s earliest remembrance of forming the M.L.A.*!

(*M.L.A. is an a “acronym” **, fans! – Rob Oder, Editor!)
(** An “acronym” is commonly mistaken for genital warts, or scabies – according to my Google search, fans!  I don’t even know what that means, but clearly people are typing it in to search for that!  “An acronym is commonly mistaken for genital warts!” “An acronym is commonly mistaken for scabies!”  THESE are the searches my Google is trying to finish my sentences as! – Rob Oder, Editor!)

Enjoy the New Year, and I look foward to checking in with everyone in 2019! Egads! – Chris