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“The title alone, ‘Doris Danger Seeks Where Giant Monsters Creep and Stomp’ should have warned me off, but I read it anyway. Somehow, Chris Wisnia had performed the amazing feat of taking the minor masterpieces that Jack Kirby and I had done and looking at them through a carnival’s distorting mirror. I wanted to write the sort of thoughtful, philosophical blurb about “DDSWGMC&S” for which I’m so justly famed, but after getting caught up in its weird and wacky contents, no mere words of mine could truly do it the injustice it deserves. Therefore, I’ll just add the one sentence that applies to any horror or monster tale—’Read it at your own risk! ” – Stan Lee
“The penultimate Kirby-style giant monster comic.” – Mike Mignola
“(I don’t believe I’ve never actually used the word ‘penultimate’, and I’m pretty sure I’ve used it incorrectly, but I like the way it sounds.).” – Mike Mignola
“This book has giant monsters that outshine even the ones from WUTHERING HEIGHTS! Enjoy!” – Adam Hughes
“A MONSTERous thrill on every page! How could I live without it???” – Jim Steranko
“During the Vietnam War, someone once said the Police were losing control of the hippies because they were up against a world they really didn’t understand. This is how a lot of people react to Chris’s stuff. He defies gravity, creates, writes and draws his own out-of-control universe, a unique hybrid of Kirby Monster/Pulp-Detective Mag – or is it all a satire? Nobody can accuse him of courting popularity. Yet, Chris Wisnia endures, grows fans, and improves in leaps and bounds. He’s a singular voice in a crowded market of imitators and super hero addicts. His world is a welcome treat for those daring enough to try, a world most of us don’t understand. Inside his pages, he does make sense. Plus, it’s … fun. Bizarre. And weird. Just like Chris.” – Sam Kieth
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* * *”This has got to be the most eccentric comics project I have ever seen.” – Daniel Clowes
“You want a quote? Just write something that sounds like I said it– but make sure I like it, because I do. The giddiness of this stuff is contagious.” – Brian Azzarello
“Chris is keeping a cool genre that is close to my heart, alive. His stuff oozes with funky humor and his own respectful homage of monsters with square toes. Brilliant!” – “Big” Mario Hernandez
“WHAT IF…Jack Kirby jumped off the top of a 20 story roller coaster and into a cesspool of gummi worms? Probably these comics..” – Johnny Ryan
“Endlessly inventive, energetic, and monstrously fun.” – David Mack
“GIANT MONSTERS HAVE BEEN IN MY GIANT IMAGINATION ALL MY GIANT LIFE. I WISH I COULD HAVE MORE OF THEM IN MY PRESENT GIANT LIFE, AND THIS IS THE PLACE TO FILL THAT GIANT NEED!” – Gilbert Hernandez
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* * *”Some of the monsters aren’t monsters, they’re robots, or projections, some of the robots are people, some of the people are robots, some of the people are french, or “midgets”, most everyone is a double or triple-agent. It’s nuts, and the deadpan idiocy builds really nicely and the book really grows on you as you go along.” – Evan Dorkin (from his review)
“A fantastic hoot! Great pin-ups, too…” – Dave Gibbons
“I’ve had a full read now, rather than just a quick skim-through, and the opinion still stands!” – Dave Gibbons
“Who doesn’t love big monsters?! Well, I do, and if you do too you need to crack open this book and take in all the monster love.” – Mike Allred
“Giant Monsters in Diapers…” – Michael Kaluta
“…Dude, you know I love the magazine and think it rocks…” – Tim Bradstreet
“I just reread my copy of Doris Danger Seeks Where Giant Monsters Creep & Stomp, and my wife had to tell me to knock it off – my laffs were waking up the neighbours! It’s absolutely brilliant work – hysterically funny, but still utterly respectful of the source material…I thot it was the best comic book I have ever read in my entire life!” – Ken Steacy
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* * *”Chris Wisnia’s Doris Danger comic has a strong fondness for the early Kirby/Ayers days when monster comics ruled the day in the mid-1950’s. The writing, drawing, and inking all have that reminiscent feel, and for those who yearn to return to the simpler days of comic storytelling, check it out. Lots of industry pros contributed some pin-ups on top of a valiant effort by Chris for his writing, drawing, and publishing.” – Steve Rude
Artist of Nexus, the Moth, and publisher of Rude Dude comics
“Chris Wisnia cracks me up.” – Eddie Campbell
“There are monsters -and then there are Monsters…and then there are giant, Kirby-style MONSTERS. I love this book and I heartily recommend it to monster fans, Kirby fans and fans of the tongue-in-cheek. Buy two and let your kids use the first one as a coloring book -because kids love monsters, too! ” – Jill Thompson
“Aye, yi, yi! It (D.D.S.W.U.C.C.&S) was so funny, I actually did forget to laugh. ” – Herb Trimpe
“A big, bristling, bombastic, black&white, blockbusting buttload o’ fun!” – Matt Wagner
[This comic] “…needs more boobs.” – Frank Cho
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“I rank you with the very best of pencillers, Chris.” – Dick Ayers
“”i thoroughly enjoyed reading your book. it felt more like kirby than kirby in some ways. it made reading comics really *fun* again. it brought me back to when i was just a little scribbler and already an avowed comics fanatic- a lover and fellow traveler in the world of monsters and make believe. great luck and success with the book.” -Bill Sienkiewicz
“I love your Doris Danger comics because they are so brilliant and original! I have some suggestions: how about a story where the Easter Island statues come to life? Maybe they could turn out to be aliens from another planet! And you could call it, “Whom the Gods Would Destroy.” What do you think? And another thing: how about a fan club with a cute name, like, say, the Delightful Doris Danger Dancing Society? Do I qualify for a no-prize? Your biggest fan, Tapdancing Trina Robbins…”
“Stop not buying them [i.e. Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures], you inhuman fiends!” – Jack Kirby Collector
“…Hilarious…a very good laugh…rollicking elliptical balls of confusion highlighted by monster-fearing military men, monster-loving guerrillas, monster-hating spy organizations, monster-manipulating secret societies, and, of course, Giant Monsters, as well as robots, aliens, assassins, double-agents, triple-agents and hapless boyfriends…” – Steven Grant, Permanent Damage
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* * *And now while we’re at it, fans, why don’t we post a couple kind letters we’ve received from our best friends!
Here’s a kind and crazy letter from our best friend Bill Sienkiewicz!
you know, sir, for some someone who manages-as the overlook’s ‘caretaker’ does- unspeakably grotesquely, altogether(dare i say) ‘neat ‘n’ spooky’ monsters , combined with and folded into a classic story line that ought to be a film or an ongoing series literally set in the fifties- i know i may not be the first to say say it, but i want to go on record as being a strong proponent and vocal supporter of your work(-as well as you being the guardian of the the most horrific and ghoulish denizens of the satanic depths (think: a hellacious Kool and the gang, both too hot and to cooool for words, if you will-and yes! I DIG K & the G) – b
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Wow, what a letter we received from TIM BRADSTREET, when asking him about contributing a pin-up of a giant monster to us!:
OK Cree (that’s what I call Chris’ that I like –Not the ‘OK’ part, the ‘Cree’ part . . .) Anyway. It should be stated for clarification that when I mentioned (in the aforementioned letter) that “I’m so not a monster guy”, I’m not suggesting that I don’t like monsters, nay. Only that it’s a challenge to draw them. And I’m talking big, nasty, monster type monsters like Godzilla, Mothra, a giant stone Golem, or for that matter even werewolves. It’s that photo ref thing you see. A lot of artists who do not admit to using photo ref call this dilemma “limitation” or “restriction of the media”, or simply a “lack of talent”. Petty technical jealousies aside, I call it plain laziness. You see normally I’d just do a little research and find out where the closest possible giant stone Golem was hanging out terrorizing some townspeople or villagers, but I’m lazy see? I mean everyone knows there are Werewolves in Bakersfield and even in El Centro, but who wants to go there, right? So you see my problem. I apologize if my earlier generalization was not totally clear. I write it off to sleep deprivation.
Now normally, if you were paying me a huge amount of money like those movie people who talked me into drawing a big poster for a Werewolf film, I’d somehow find the time or summon up the guts to drive up to Bakersfield for a clandestine photo op. And the bitch of it is you have to wait until the Lunar cycle is in full to make the trip, otherwise you’re just wasting your time talking to Native American medicine men and the occasional alleged witness to a sighting. So it’s true, money talks. But flattery and tenaciousness certainly has its upside. It just takes longer. Anyway stay in touch on this.
I may be doing a scout for Lion’s Gate for an upcoming Succubus thriller called “Dear Vlad”. I have a special relationship with the Vampires so maybe, just maybe I’ll have something for you soon.
Eternally yours – TIM BRADSTREET
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Next up, here are some kind words of encouragement from DICK AYERS, while he was inking some of the DORIS DANGER GIANT MONSTER ADVENTURES pages!
Hi, Chris!
Enjoyed inking these!!!…We are a good team on the monster stuff. Looking forward to doing more —
Dick
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Terrific pencilling, Chris! I enjoyed every stroke with my #3 brush!
… Darlin’ Dick
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Hello, Chris!
Mighty fine pencilling! I enjoyed every panel — Hope it shows!
…Bestest, Dick
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