{"id":220,"date":"2010-04-14T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:26:31","slug":"tabloia-mailer-1a-with-addition-nov-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/220","title":{"rendered":"TABLOIA Mailer #1a (with addition), Nov 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> OFFICIAL TABLOIA MAILER #3817a<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: If you are receiving this mailer Dec. 8,<br \/>\nTabloia owes you an apology! This was sent<br \/>\nout weeks ago to everyone else, and YOU<br \/>\nWERE OVERLOOKED! Tabloia&#8217;s staff just<br \/>\nunearthed a sheet full of mailing list names,<br \/>\nINCLUDING YOURS! We apologize for the<br \/>\ndelay, and hope you receive this URGENT<br \/>\nNEWS in time to act accordingly and<br \/>\nresponsibly, RIGHT AWAY! We also hope it<br \/>\nbrings you comfort knowing MOST OTHER<br \/>\nTABLOIA FANS DID NOT receive this extra-<br \/>\nspecial BONUS NOTE! (Included below!)<br \/>\n&#8211;The Tabloia Staff!<\/p>\n<p>At long last, a special treat for all you fans!<br \/>\nIn Diamond&#8217;s Previews, at this very moment<br \/>\n(November), Salt Peter Press has listed the<br \/>\nHUMONGOUS 9&#8243;x13&#8243; treasury-sized 56-page<br \/>\n&#8220;DORIS DANGER SEEKS&#8230;<br \/>\nWHERE GIANT MONSTERS<br \/>\nCREEP AND STOMP!&#8221;<br \/>\nCollecting all five shocking Kirby-style<br \/>\nadventures from Tabloia, inked by Dick Ayers,<br \/>\nas well as all fifteen giant monster pin-ups by<br \/>\nthe industry&#8217;s biggest names:<br \/>\nMike Allred, Thomas Yeates, Gene Colan,<br \/>\nSam Kieth, Irwin Hasen, Bill Sienkiewicz,<br \/>\nGilbert Hernandez, Mario Hernandez,<br \/>\nJaime Hernandez, Ryan Sook,<br \/>\nSteve Rude, John Severin, Mike Mignola,<br \/>\nRamona Fradon, and Tony Millionaire!<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s not all! As a special bonus to you,<br \/>\ndear readers, this issue also features eleven<br \/>\nbrand new pages full of giant-monster action<br \/>\nand suspense, an essay on the history of<br \/>\nDoris Danger in comics, an introduction from<br \/>\nnoted humorist Ricky Sprague, and a monster-<br \/>\nname word search! Also contains two giant<br \/>\npages of infamous Tabloia letters-page letters!<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t afford to miss this issue! Don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhesitate! Order it immediately, or all is lost!<br \/>\nOrders are due NOW!<br \/>\nIn stores January 2006!<br \/>\n56 pages\/B&amp;W\/Taboid-Sized 9&#8243;x13&#8243;\/$9.95!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like the ten or eleven other Tabloia<br \/>\nfans around the globe, then you&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nchecking your emails and frantically scanning<br \/>\nthe racks, every day or hour! You&#8217;ve nervously<br \/>\nre-examined the carefully-placed mark on your<br \/>\ncalender, and seen it&#8217;s been increasingly over<br \/>\nfour months since the previous issue of<br \/>\nTabloia came out! You&#8217;ve wept and lamented,<br \/>\n&#8220;O, How long can I go without my beloved Tabloia?<br \/>\nWill I ever see my most cherished weekly<br \/>\nnon-fiction tabloid magazine again! How have I<br \/>\nsurvived this long without all the joys it has brought<br \/>\nme! The misery! The misery!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is, Well, you must live without<br \/>\nit from now on, because due to poor sales, Tabloia<br \/>\nhas been cancelled! Kaput! Gone! So long!<br \/>\nNighty-night!<\/p>\n<p>However, the magic of Tabloia is still sizzlin&#8217; strong!<br \/>\nAll the stories that were coming next in Tabloia are<br \/>\nnow simply to become their own books, (For example,<br \/>\n&#8220;The Dick Hammer Dailies #1!&#8221;, &#8220;Doris Danger Greatest<br \/>\nArmy Battles #1!&#8221;, &#8220;Spider-Twins #1!&#8221; &#8220;Dr. DeBunko in<br \/>\nThe Exorcist #1!&#8221;, and &#8220;Bride of the Lump #1!&#8221; And as a<br \/>\nspecial treat to collectors, notice how all these upcoming<br \/>\ntitles have &#8220;issue number one&#8221; in their titles! That&#8217;s right,<br \/>\nSalt Peter Press has learned at least two marketing<br \/>\nstrategies from their sordid past!<\/p>\n<p>With all these exciting projects in the works, how do fans<br \/>\nkeep track of what to look for? Here&#8217;s your answer!<br \/>\nSoon after the release of Doris Danger&#8217;s Humongous<br \/>\nSpecial (mentioned above), here&#8217;s what&#8217;s coming in<br \/>\nthe immediate future:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lump&#8221; trade paperback, featuring essays,<br \/>\nsketches, and a four page &#8220;Skitz Jenkins&#8221; story not seen<br \/>\nin America! (Originally published this Halloween in the<br \/>\nBritish horror anthology, &#8220;Dead By Dawn Quarterly!&#8221;<br \/>\nCheck it out at www.smallzone.co.uk\/scarcomics.htm!)<\/p>\n<p>Next on the plate, Tabloia&#8217;s premiere artist,<br \/>\nChris Wisnia, has been frantically at the drawing<br \/>\nboard with the latest Tabloia exclusive,<br \/>\n&#8220;Limbo Cafe,&#8221; the story of an atheist who dies<br \/>\nand finds himself in a Christian Fundamentalist<br \/>\nafterlife! Chris is thirty pages in, and has about a<br \/>\nhundred seventy-two pages to go! More soon!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking in at the Tabloia website,<br \/>\nwww.chriswisniaarts.com! We&#8217;ve got some really fun and<br \/>\nmajor changes coming soon, including a bunch of<br \/>\npreliminary or unused sketches from Tabloia,<br \/>\ncomparative pages from Sam Kieth&#8217;s &#8220;Ojo&#8221; (Oni<br \/>\nPress), showing the progress of artwork before-<br \/>\nand-after Sam touched Chris&#8217;s originals up, new<br \/>\nsecret messages for you extra-special, extra-<br \/>\ndedicated fans, and a links-page of giant monsters<br \/>\ndrawn by all our favorite indie-self-publishers and<br \/>\nfans (Send us one of your own and we&#8217;ll post it<br \/>\nright away!)<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! Sorry it took us so long to write!<br \/>\nHopefully we&#8217;ll have more to share soon, and if<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re lucky, we&#8217;ll learn to add attachments by then,<br \/>\nso you can see exactly what we&#8217;re up to!!<\/p>\n<p>Take care,<br \/>\nand be sure and write and say hello,<br \/>\n&#8211;Rob Oder!<br \/>\nEditor-in-Chief and<br \/>\nProud Publisher of Tabloia Weekly Magazine!<br \/>\nwww.chriswisniaarts.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFFICIAL TABLOIA MAILER #3817a NOTE: If you are receiving this mailer Dec. 8, Tabloia owes you an apology! This was sent out weeks ago to everyone else, and YOU WERE OVERLOOKED! Tabloia&#8217;s staff just unearthed a sheet full of mailing list names, INCLUDING YOURS! 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