Announcements!

Tabloia Mailer #0148372

FANS, a couple quick announcements for what’s bound to become a slower and slower 2008!

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ITEM! Tabloia hack Chris Wisnia was interviewed by his best friend Lene at:

http://ireadcomics.blogspot.com/

Just click on “Show #67, March 18, 2008!”

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ITEM! Tabloia hack Chris Wisnia has been selling exclusive, convention only, Kirby-style giant monster convention sketches for about a year now … but FOR THE FIRST TIME, Chris has made eight of these frightening and realistic convention sketches available for worldwide purchase … only at:

http://www.comicspace.com/cwisnia/

They are inexpensive original art pieces ($25 each plus shipping), black and white, 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches, drawn in archival ink on archival bristol! Click on the CONVENTION SKETCHES folder to check ’em out, fans!

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ITEM! SPIDER TWINS MINI-COMICS are now available to the general public! These thorough mini-sized encyclopedic compendiums feature Crude Bay’s most thrilling, dangerous, and sexy masked vigilantes! What gems, hand-folded and hand-stapled by Tabloia’s own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia!

There are three books, 32 pages each/FULL COLOR!/mini-comic sized 5.25 inches x 8.50 inches/mature audiences/$5.00 plus A BUCK SHIPPING each!

Plus a special treat for fans who can’t get enough … BUY ALL THREE MINI-COMICS, GET A FREE CREATOR’S COMMENTARY CD! What a deal, at only Only $15 plus $3 shipping!

That’s right, Tabloia’s own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, sat down with a technologically sufficient recording device, and burbled and babbled for more than ONE CONTINUOUS HOUR about the creation of the Spider Twins Companion! This monotonous hour features his personal recollections of Marvel Universe comics, insights and trivia on the creation of these handsome men with tight underpants, references to professional wrestling, and more!

Pick it all up today at:
http://chriswisniaarts.com/merchandise.shtml

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Thanks for reading, fans! We’ll talk to you soon! Unless you’d prefer to UNSUBSCRIBE, in which case you should reply with the heading “No more beef, Mr. T!” -Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief

TABLOIA MAILER #234907

Fans,

Just a quick update this month!

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APPEARANCES!

First off, pack your bags and buy your airline tickets for San Francisco, because this
Friday thru Sunday is Wondercon at the Moscone Center South! Info at:

http://www.comic-con.org/wc/

Our own Chris Wisnia is beginning his one-comic-convention tour this season! He’ll be DEBUTING “THE SPIDER TWINS COMPANION” MINI-COMICS and BONUS, convention-only “creator commentary CD’s!” (see below for more exciting Spider Twins info!)

He’ll also be trying to visit with you for as long as he can keep you at his booth!

If you don’t want to visit with Chris for as long as he can keep you at his booth, follow these steps:

* Don’t make eye contact
* Don’t do anything showy that may attract his attention
* If he spots you, make a lot of noise
* Puff yourself up so that you appear bigger and more threatening than your actual size
* Walk by – don’t run! – at a hurried, busy-looking pace!

Hope to see most of you there, especially all our East Coast fans whom we haven’t seen in a while!

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SPIDER TWINS COMPANION!

Fans,

“The Spider Twins Companion” web comic has been going strong for a month, and only four or five people have been checking in to compete in the weekly contest!

Here’s a sample of the two enthusiastic raves we’ve received about the web comic (which is posted at www.drunkduck.com, webcomicsnation.com, and smackjeeves.com!, in addition to our usual www.chriswisniaarts.com home page! Feel free to post your own comments):

“You have a really nice drawing style. Too bad it’s coupled with the simplistic thoughts of a nine year old. :/ ”

” … I think your comic is rather “meh” … ”

We understand shyness, but now you have the perfect opportunity to check out the flow of things and get a feel for the contest! It’s so easy … and what fun! Simply visit www.chriswisniaarts.com, and click on “The Spider Twins Companion!” There you can learn about the weekly contest rules, and begin participating every week! We can’t wait to hear from you!

As for the above-mentioned “SPIDER TWINS COMPANION” MINI-COMICS and BONUS, convention-only “creator commentary CD’s” – don’t despair, non-convention-goers! As soon as Chris returns from San Francisco’s WONDERCON, and gets settled in, he’ll be posting those brand-new items on www.tabloia’s MERCHANDISE page! Look for it early in March!

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Thanks for reading, fans! We’ll see you in San Francisco!

UNSUBSCRIBE? Don’t be ashamed! I unsubscribed to this shlock months ago! Just reply to this email with the heading, “I’m gone like a jive turkey!”

Rob Oder,
Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com!

Tabloia Mailer #92168

Spider Twins Web Comic!
Fantastic!
THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF WEB COMIC AND WEEKLY CONTEST!

Fans, you’ve been patiently waiting, and it’s finally payback time! Go to WWW.TABLOIA.COM right away, and thrill at the brand new “SPIDER TWINS COMPANION!” by our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia!

The Spider Twins Companion is an essential compendium of masked vigilantes, in web comics form! Every week, we will be posting mug shots on Mondays, full-body shots on Tuesdays, and then inviting you to write in and guess the name of that week’s vigilante! But get your guesses in before Thursdays, because that’s character description and action shot day, along with the official posting of the correct answer! EVERY WEEK, we will have a drawing for all the correct guessers, and a WEEKLY LUCKY WINNER will receive a free postcard with an ORIGINAL SKETCH by Tabloia’s own hack artist CHRIS WISNIA (and a note of congratulations by me, Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief)!

It’s as easy as that, and so much fun! So what’s stopping you? Pop over right away, and read the official rules and instructions for the WEEKLY CONTEST! Feel free to learn about the intriguing history of the Spider Twins as well! Then write in with your guess, EVERY WEEK! After that, all you have to do is sit back and wait to see if you’re a LUCKY WINNER! And then guess again for a new, fascinating masked vigilante the following week! ALL YEAR! What fun!

THRILLING ASIDE! To start off the web comic with a BANG, and give you a chance to warm into all the excitement, we’ve posted THREE masked vigilantes on the first week, and given you extra time to brainstorm! Also, they should be surprisingly easy to figure out their names! So don’t be intimidated if you’re not good at guessing, or if you’re unintelligent!

That’s the brand new web comic and WEEKLY CONTEST, “Spider Twins Companion,” only at www.chriswisniaarts.com! Enjoy, and good luck, guessers! – Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!

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APPEARANCES!
The sad, ugly rumors are true! Tabloia’s own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia will be making surprisingly few public appearances this year, and most likely only in sunny California! But you can buy your airline tickets, pack your bags, and head on out to the comic shop, Empire Comics Vault, in Sacramento, for their five-year anniversary shindig, on Saturday, February 2! They’ll be having 75% off back issues! And you could meet Ron Lim (Silver Surfer, Fanastic Four, Spider-Man), Eric Nguyen (Strange Girl, Sandman Mystery Theater, X-Men First Class), C. Andrew Nelson (actor/visual effects who played Darth Vader!) and more! Check out the details at www.empirescv.com, and then come on out!

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REMOVE? You receive our monthly spam mailer because we just want you to like us, but if you’d prefer to UNSUBSCRIBE, just reply to this email with the heading, YES, REMOVE, I SAID! Thanks, fans! -Rob!

Tabloia Mailer #92168

Spider Twins Web Comic!
Fantastic!
THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF WEB COMIC AND WEEKLY CONTEST!

Fans, you’ve been patiently waiting, and it’s finally payback time! Go to WWW.TABLOIA.COM right away, and thrill at the brand new “SPIDER TWINS COMPANION!” by our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia!

The Spider Twins Companion is an essential compendium of masked vigilantes, in web comics form! Every week, we will be posting mug shots on Mondays, full-body shots on Tuesdays, and then inviting you to write in and guess the name of that week’s vigilante! But get your guesses in before Thursdays, because that’s character description and action shot day, along with the official posting of the correct answer! EVERY WEEK, we will have a drawing for all the correct guessers, and a WEEKLY LUCKY WINNER will receive a free postcard with an ORIGINAL SKETCH by Tabloia’s own hack artist CHRIS WISNIA (and a note of congratulations by me, Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief)!

It’s as easy as that, and so much fun! So what’s stopping you? Pop over right away, and read the official rules and instructions for the WEEKLY CONTEST! Feel free to learn about the intriguing history of the Spider Twins as well! Then write in with your guess, EVERY WEEK! After that, all you have to do is sit back and wait to see if you’re a LUCKY WINNER! And then guess again for a new, fascinating masked vigilante the following week! ALL YEAR! What fun!

THRILLING ASIDE! To start off the web comic with a BANG, and give you a chance to warm into all the excitement, we’ve posted THREE masked vigilantes on the first week, and given you extra time to brainstorm! Also, they should be surprisingly easy to figure out their names! So don’t be intimidated if you’re not good at guessing, or if you’re unintelligent!

That’s the brand new web comic and WEEKLY CONTEST, “Spider Twins Companion,” only at www.chriswisniaarts.com! Enjoy, and good luck, guessers! – Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!

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APPEARANCES!
The sad, ugly rumors are true! Tabloia’s own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia will be making surprisingly few public appearances this year, and most likely only in sunny California! But you can buy your airline tickets, pack your bags, and head on out to the comic shop, Empire Comics Vault, in Sacramento, for their five-year anniversary shindig, on Saturday, February 2! They’ll be having 75% off back issues! And you could meet Ron Lim (Silver Surfer, Fanastic Four, Spider-Man), Eric Nguyen (Strange Girl, Sandman Mystery Theater, X-Men First Class), C. Andrew Nelson (actor/visual effects who played Darth Vader!) and more! Check out the details at www.empirescv.com, and then come on out!

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REMOVE? You receive our monthly spam mailer because we just want you to like us, but if you’d prefer to UNSUBSCRIBE, just reply to this email with the heading, YES, REMOVE, I SAID! Thanks, fans! -Rob!

Tabloia Mailer #8239

Welcome back, fans! Just in time for the holidays, our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, has posted a whole bunch of original art for sale at http://www.comicspace.com/cwisnia/ !!!

There you will find thirty-two listings of published “Ojo” pages, most of which were co-drawn by SAM KIETH! Often the pages are sold as a two-page set, because Chris would draw the original page, and then Sam would photo-copy it and add textures and shading, or even redraw whole panels! Only at http://www.comicspace.com/cwisnia/ !!!

You will also find eighteen listings of published Doris Danger Giant monsters FOR SALE at http://www.comicspace.com/cwisnia/ !! There are numerous giant monster splash pages, and some multiple-page story sets!

More to be posted periodically! Please pop over and check it all out, if nothing else, as an educational tool to see how hack Chris and amazing Sam Kieth worked together on “Ojo!”

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MEDIA!

NEW PODCAST!
Chris was featured in a podcast at “The Amateur Scientist” on Wednesday November 28th! He discussed Dr. DeBunko, skepticism, and giant monsters! Give it a listen at http://amateurscientistblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/amateur-scientist-podcast-episode-5.html

Also a nice note of support for Doris Danger by our best friend Randy74 at
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=236

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SECRET PROJECT REVEALED AT LAST…

THE SPIDER TWINS COMPANION!
A Web Comic and WEEKLY CONTEST – yes, WEEKLY – Beginning in 2008 (that’s next month, fans!)

You may have noticed a few subtle mentions of “The Spider Twins,” way back in Tabloia Weekly Magazine’s letters pages or news columns! (If not, pick up the back issues right away at our “merchandise” page http://chriswisniaarts.com/merchandise.shtml , as they’re sure to be eagerly sought out “first appearance” issues as soon as the web comic hits the web!) In 2008, www.chriswisniaarts.com will be releasing an essential, encyclopedic compendium of masked vigilantes from Crude Bay’s “Spider Twins” era — in “Marvel Universe” or “DC Who’s Who” style! Every week, we will portray a new masked vigilante, and invite you to guess the hero or villain’s super-name! Every week, we will have a drawing for the correct guessers! And EVERY WEEK, a winner will receive a prize postcard, with a personal note of congratulations by me, Rob Oder, and with an original sketch by hack Chris Wisnia!

Don’t delay! Get those brainstorming juices flowing, fans! Who is the villain with a long hard bo staff? Who is the hero with a shaved head and a beaver tail? Who is the villain with a sack full of spherical weapons? Who is the large, overweight heroine in the cat costume? Who is the villain in a red skeleton outfit? Who is the villain who beats his enemies with sausages? You’ll find out … and delight at the knowledgeable detail and disturbing realism … every week!

Look forward to it in 2008 (That’s next month!), fans!
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com

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MAILER #2340

Fans!

Sorry for the delay in updates! Most likely, this update won’t make up for it, but the next one will be even BETTER!

CONTENTS:
1. SUPPORT DICK HAMMER!
2. NEW PLACES WE CAN BE BEST FRIENDS!
3. LATEST REVIEWS

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1. HOW CAN I SUPPORT DICK HAMMER?

As we speak, our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, is wrapped up in one, two, or quite possibly even THREE HUMONGOUS SECRET PROJECTS! The reason we can’t tell you the exact number is that they are SECRET! (More to be announced next exciting mailer, including the official debut of his upcoming TABLOIA SUPERHERO PROJECT!)

To offset the wait time for YOU, dear reader, Chris has slavishly continued to produce the web-comic super-hit, DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES! We’re asking if you can spare a couple simple minutes of your time to SUPPORT DICK HAMMER and make us feel popular! It’s so easy and fast! And FUN! Just visit the sites DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES is posted at, sign up, and comment how great DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES is, how it’s changed your life, and how no one in the nation can afford to do without this fantastic literary masterwork!

How do we know it’s easy, and so quick? Because we’ve registered and left shining comments, using half a dozen “registrants,” at each site! That’s right, Dick Hammer: The Dailies is recommended by Chris himself, the fictitious Dick Hammer himself, me (the fictitious Rob Oder!), the fictitious Dr. DeBunko, the fictitious Doris Danger, and numerous other fictitious members of the Tabloia staff! All you need is a name and an email, and then you can boost DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES’S popularity by voting for it, writing a review about, commenting on it, or signing up any of your fictitious friends with emails to do the same! It all depends on how much love and time you’re willing to devote to DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES!

Here are all the places you can make a difference!

Onlinecomics.com! Sign up at http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/, then go to http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/support.php?comicID=12732&ref=, where you can either “add this comic to your favorites,” or write shining reviews using the “comic feedback, comments, and discussion.”

Web Comics Nation! Sign up at http://www.webcomicsnation.com/index.php, then go to http://www.webcomicsnation.com/cwisnia/dickhammer/series.php, and “Write Your Own Review!”

Drunkduck! Sign up at http://www.drunkduck.com/, plug in http://www.drunkduck.com/Dick_Hammer/index.php, and start leaving gushing comments of praise! Then pop over to the forums at http://www.drunkduck.com/community/ to rant about how imperative it is that everyone else read DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES!

Thanks for your support, fans! You’ll thank YOURSELF for it!

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OTHER PLACES TO BE FRIENDS WITH US!

Good news, fans! In addition to all these exciting web comics communities, now we’re also members of myspace.com, facebook.com, LinkedIn.com, and comicspace.com! And we want friends! C’mon, guys, we know YOU’RE popular, and outgoing! Come find us and ask us to be your pals! We make a GREAT FRIEND! Knock on our door and ask Mrs. Wisnia if Chris can come play! Invite us hang out this weekend! See if we’d like to go to the drive-in, or play miniature golf! Give your friend a note to give our friend, that says “will Chris go with me, circle yes or no!” We might just surprise you!

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DORIS DANGER REVIEWS!

A few reviews have trickled in since our last spam-mailer!

Naturally, Rob at treasurycomics.com posted a review about our latest Doris Danger treasury! Check it out at: http://www.treasurycomics.com/gallery/galleryOTHERoneshots2.htm

Isn’t Rachel Edidin sweet at “Inside Out” to review Doris Danger: http://www.girl-wonder.org/insideout/

Well, well, well, thank you, Mark Mason, for your kind review at the Comics Waiting Room: http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/indies9.html

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More fun on the way soon, fans, and we mean soon!

UNSUBSCRIBE? If you’re not interested in fun (i.e., receiving Tabloia mailers), simply send us an email with the heading, “I’m not interested in fun.” Thanks for reading, fans!
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com

Tabloia Mailer #9346

Hi fans! A lot of exciting stuff going on this month!

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EXCITING APPEARANCES!

Got nothing to do this Labor Day Weekend? Why not fly to Atlanta GA?
Great! Our artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, will be concluding his 2007 touring schedule this weekend, at Atlanta’s DRAGON*CON! Check it out at http://www.dragoncon.org/ Then pack your bags and buy some airline tickets!

He’ll be in “artist’s alley,” as well as at the panel discussion,
“Surfing the Funny Pages!”
An exploration of the widely popular web comics medium 9/2/2007 5:30:00 PM Location: Fayette/Newton/Rockdale – Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

In addition, he hopes to glom onto/sneak onstage for an additional, unannounced “skeptic/science” panel or two! Keep your eyes peeled! And see you there!

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EXCITING REVIEWS!

Our latest extravaganza, “Doris Danger Seeks … Where Urban Creatures Creep and Stomp!” has been slowly getting some attention!

Steven Grant’s usual kindly review:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=pd&article=2855

The Comic Book Haters, who kindly showed little hate in their interview:
http://thecomicbookhaters.blogspot.com/

Comic Monsters.com, who kindly enjoyed our comic about Giant Monsters:
http://www.comicmonsters.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=83

and our kindly pal, Johnny Bacardi:
http://johnnybacardi.blogspot.com/

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EXCITING WEBSITE NEWS:

Go to www.chriswisniaarts.com right away, fans! We’ve posted plenty of exciting new photos (click on “photos”)! We’ve continued posting weekly blogs (click on “blog,” also labelled “Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist”)! We’ve finally gotten caught back up with our “Dick Hammer: The Dailies” (click on “Dick Hammer: The Dailies!” Not convinced? Then read more exciting Dick Hammer details below!)

And if you click on “Fans of Giant Monsters,” you’ll find plenty of exciting new monsters drawn by all our indie friends in the industry! And as an exciting non-indie bonus treat, check out the convention sketches of giant monsters we posted from our best friends, Tim Bradstreet, Simon Bisley, and Bill Sienkiewicz!

If you’re a fan of giant monsters, don’t be shy! Send us a drawing of a giant monster, and we’ll link it to your web page!

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EXCITING “DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES!” NEWS!

All that convention-going this season (packing! being out of town! unpacking! repacking!) got us way behind on our “DICK HAMMER DAILIES!” Until now! This last week, Chris has posted an entry a day, and gotten us all caught up! We’re now beginning Chapter three, so read through and get caught up!

That’s www.chriswisniaarts.com, fans!

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Thanks for reading, and we’ll talk to you again soon! If you’d like to UNSUBSCRIBE, or if you’re thinking about UNSUBSCRIBING, or if you want more information on UNSUBSCRIBING, or if you care to hear testimonials from thousands of fans who have already UNSUBSCRIBED, simply send a reply to this email!

-Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!

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

TABLOIA MAILER #3579

This mailer really is just spam, fans! Enjoy!

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EXCITING TIDBIT! THE RETURN OF THE BLOG …

DIARY OF A STRUGGLING COMICS ARTIST is back up and running at last!

Sorry it took us four months and eight days to begin posting again, fans! Technical difficulties and a free-but-moronic blog-hosting site shut us up good! But we’re back again strong now, to relay the pathetic adventures of our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, as he attempts to make it in the comics industry! He’s been adding entries during the time we were away, so you should have plenty of reading to keep you busy, for at least ten minutes!

Ease into your smoking jacket and slippers, and curl up with a warm glass of milk at:

Read the Comics!

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NEWS FLASH! DR. DeBUNKO on “POINT OF INQUIRY” PODCAST!
D.J. Grothe, at “Point of Inquiry,” the premiere podcast of the Center for Inquiry, interviewed our own ace artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, about Dr. Debunko. Wanna listen? Pop on over to:

Home

Special thanks to Lene at the only feminist/atheist/skeptic comics podcast, www.ireadcomics.blogspot.com, for getting us all in touch with those darn skeptics! Check her fabulous podcast out too!

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ITEM OF NOTE! DORIS DANGER IS AT THE PRINTER!

“DORIS DANGER SEEKS … WHERE URBAN CREATURES CREEP AND STOMP!” is on schedule to ship out early in July! We just received the proof today, and it looks like the book could just turn out okay! It’s looking really so-so! It could look worse!

If you are a mature and discriminating reader who is not put off by low-brow, crass humor and base, foul language, feel free to visit http://chriswisniaarts.com/doris_sp.shtml to see one or maybe two exciting sneak peeks of the new comic! If you aren’t mature and discriminating, do it anyways, because the sneak-peeks are fun for all ages! (But cover your eyes while perusing the rest of our website!)

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RUMOR: DICK HAMMER: The Dailies!

For those of you who haven’t checked in regularly, Dick is into his twenty-seventh entry, so the story is just barely starting to get going! Check it out at:

http://chriswisniaarts.com/hammerweb.shtml

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EXCITING APPEARANCES!

Sacramento-ans! Be sure and come out to our best friends’ great new store, Toy Fusion, in Rancho Cordova, CA, this Saturday, June 16, 2007!

After that, come see us at San Diego-Con (small press area), Chicago-Con, and Dragon*Con in Atlanta, all you jet-setters!

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BIRTHDAY ANNOUNCEMENT!

Happy Birthday, Tabloia!

That’s right, fans! This month marks the three year anniversary of Tabloia #572, our momentous first issue! Why is it momentous, you ask? Because it was the first appearance of Doris Danger (on sale now), Dr. DeBunko (featured in the podcast above), AND Dick Hammer of the Dick Hammer Dailies! All your favorites! Not to mention its macabre, pseudo-intellectual flagship story, “The Lump!” How is all that classic greatness possible?!

Mile High Comics is offering these amazing collector’s issues for $13-$15 each (!!!!!), but we’ve still got them listed at cover price! Better pick up multiple copies now, fans, while they’re still available! Even if you already own them! And then open up your own Tabloia Comics-selling shop! Get your credit card out and go to http://chriswisniaarts.com/merchandise.shtml right away!

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“I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULL #&%*!?!!”

Want to unsubscribe? Who doesn’t! Just send an email reply, with the heading, “THIS IS BULL #&%*!?!!”

Thanks for reading, fans,
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
www.chriswisniaarts.com

Tabloia Mailer #4760

Do we owe you an apology, fans!

It’s been over two months since our last mailer! What have you done with yourselves?! How have you passed the time?! Well we have good news for you at last! Please read “Item of Good News” below:

ITEM OF GOOD NEWS:

“DORIS DANGER SEEKS … WHERE URBAN CREATURES CREEP AND STOMP” is now on presale through your local comics shop! Diamond Distributors not only spotlighted the book AND highlighted it with their “Indie Edge” icon, they ALSO listed the book as a “Staff Pick!”

In stores July 2007! 64 pages/B&W/humongous treasury-size 9″x13″/a mere $11.95!
Call your local comics shop right away and tell them:

Tell your local shop, “DIAMOND ORDER NUMBER: MAY07 3695, from Salt Peter Press, if you please!” Can’t find a shop? That’s a poor excuse, lazies!

Featuring covers by SHAG! Giant monster pin-ups by MIKE ALLRED, GUY DAVIS, SAM KIETH, JOHN SEVERIN, DICK AYERS, DAVE GIBBONS, PETER KUPER, HERB TRIMPE, PETER BAGGE, SAM GLANZMAN, MICHAEL LARK, JH WILLIAMS III, AL FELDSTEIN, RUSS HEATH, ESAD RIBIC … and that’s not all!

Collecting the Kirby-style “Doris Danger Greatest All Out Army Battles” and “Doris Danger in Outer Space,” with over twenty pages of somewhat realistic, moderately entertaining NEW MATERIAL!

IN ADDITION! Go to http://chriswisniaarts.com/doris_urban.shtml, where you can find quotes of endorsement (or at least of acknowledgement!) from Adam Hughes, Tim Bradstreet, Stan Lee, Mike Mignola, Jim Steranko, Michael Kaluta, Trina Robbins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Wagner, Dick Ayers, Mike Allred, and Dave Gibbons, as well as some of our favorite quotes from reviewers!

THAT’S DIAMOND ORDER NUMBER: MAY07 3695, fans! Don’t forget to call or run down to your local shop TODAY!

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APPEARANCES!

Sorry we’re so behind, fans! We didn’t get a chance to tell you that since our last mailer, artistic hack Chris Wisnia was at conventions in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and back AGAIN in San Francisco! Hope you came out and said hello! If you didn’t, and you were in the area and totally would have come if only you’d have known, then … uh, heh … Woops!

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ITEM OF TARDINESS!

Not just with the mailer are we behind schedule! DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES, with mere weekly entries, are over a month late! But rest assured, we’ve picked it up again, and hope to be back on schedule shortly! Check it out at www.chriswisniaarts.com!

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ITEM OF BEING TEMPORARILY IN LIMBO!

Did we mention we’ve been behind schedule?! If you haven’t, be sure to stop by www.chriswisniaarts.com! Then you’ll see we haven’t made a blog entry to the informative, witty “Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist” since February 5th! The reason has nothing to do with artistic hack Chris’s Wisnia’s being gone to conventions five weekends out of the last ten, or having an eight month old son, or buying a house/packing/moving/cleaning/painting/and unpacking, or with Chris frantically looking for and gathering and adding up a whole bunch of receipts for the last two weeks on account of the IRS sending him a polite letter saying they’d like to discuss his write-offs (We’ll be sure to cover all that fun in a future “Diary” entry)!

Our blog website demanded we upgrade to the new improved version, and upon doing so, we’ve been unable to edit entries, delete cute spam “messages” kindly posted by porn sites, add entries, or do any other ding-dongin’ jack we’ve tried at the website!
Hopefully we will be able to inform you soon that the site is back again and running smoothly … but not today!

Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to order “Doris Danger!”
Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief

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