{"id":225,"date":"2010-04-14T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-04-14T11:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:10:15","slug":"tabloia-mailer-4-apr-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/225","title":{"rendered":"TABLOIA Mailer #4, Apr 17 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note from your friends at www.chriswisniaarts.com!<\/p>\n<p>ITEM!<\/p>\n<p>At last, the wait is over! At this very second,<br \/>\n&#8220;THE LUMP: THE COMPLETE SORDID STORY&#8221;<br \/>\nTRADE PAPERBACK is listed in Previews, and ready to<br \/>\nbe ordered by your local comics shops! Be sure and tell<br \/>\nthem you want at least three copies! It ships to stores<br \/>\nJUNE 2006!<\/p>\n<p>During the process of putting this ungodly package<br \/>\ntogether, we kept coming up with crazy new<br \/>\nBONUS FEATURES to add, which ultimately bulked the<br \/>\nbook up to a whopping 160 pages!<\/p>\n<p>What can you expect, fans?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The complete sordid story, including the original<br \/>\ncovers and back covers!<br \/>\n&#8211; A brand new three-page epilogue!<br \/>\n&#8211; A four-page story that has yet to see print in<br \/>\nAmerica (featuring &#8220;The Lump&#8217;s&#8221; &#8220;Skitz&#8221; Jenkins,<br \/>\nwith cameos by Lindsay and Raven!)!<br \/>\n&#8211; Professor &#8220;Cleanie&#8221; Santini&#8217;s Fun Sanitation Tips,<br \/>\nAND Professor Pardi&#8217;s Sex Science Facts!<br \/>\n&#8211; An extra-special BONUS PAGE of NEVER-<br \/>\nBEFORE-SEEN Sex Facts and Sanitation Tips!<br \/>\n&#8211; Letters pages galore, by fans like yourself,<br \/>\nenamored by &#8220;The Lump!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Yours truly, Rob Oder, interviewing creator<br \/>\nChris Wisnia!<br \/>\n&#8211; Essays on the creation, publishing processes,<br \/>\nand ingenius marketing techniques of &#8220;The Lump!&#8221;<br \/>\nsome of which must have been responsible for its<br \/>\noriginal (small) sales numbers plummeting by<br \/>\ntwo-thirds! (A MUST-HAVE for aspiring<br \/>\nself-publishers!)!<br \/>\n&#8211; Original character sketches and page layouts!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IS THE LUMP??!<\/p>\n<p>See the attached advertisement, if you missed it in this<br \/>\nmonth&#8217;s Comics Journal!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the critically acclaimed film noir\/mad scientist\/ tabloid<br \/>\nhorror mystery of the year! &#8220;Demented and highly<br \/>\nenjoyable.&#8221; &#8211; Fourthrail.com. &#8220;Some of the best comic<br \/>\nbook fun I&#8217;ve had in years.&#8221; &#8211; Comixfan.com. &#8220;My favorite<br \/>\ncomic of the week.&#8221; -Comicbookresources.com. &#8220;Deserves<br \/>\na round of applause.&#8221; -Comicwidows.com. A &#8220;daffy<br \/>\nvalentine to pulp publications, gossip rags, and paranoia<br \/>\nliterature.&#8221; -Comicon.com. Soft cover, 160 pages,<br \/>\ncomic-book-sized, black and white. All that for just $14.95!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>WEBSITE UPDATE!<\/p>\n<p>The website hasn&#8217;t changed in almost a year! Don&#8217;t bother<br \/>\ngoing there, unless you haven&#8217;t ordered your humongous,<br \/>\ntreasury-sized 9&#8243;x13&#8243;copy of &#8220;DORIS DANGER<br \/>\nSEEKS &#8230; WHERE GIANT MONSTERS CREEP AND<br \/>\nSTOMP!&#8221; featuring Kirby-style giant monsters inked by<br \/>\nDICK AYERS, and pin-ups of giant monsters by<br \/>\nMIKE MIGNOLA, SAM KIETH, MIKE ALLRED,<br \/>\nGENE COLAN, JOHN SEVERIN,<br \/>\nBILL SIENKIEWICZ, LOS BROS HERNANDEZ,<br \/>\nTONY MILLIONAIRE, and MORE!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be sure and keep you updated on the website&#8217;s<br \/>\nprogress! Don&#8217;t hold your breath!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>WHAT IS TABLOIA UP TO NEXT?!<\/p>\n<p>Glad you asked, fans! We&#8217;ve scrapped the religious project<br \/>\nmentioned in previous emails, due to (unenthusiastic)<br \/>\ninterest in DORIS DANGER&#8217;S adventures! We&#8217;re hoping<br \/>\nto get out at least TWO DORIS DANGER COMICS before<br \/>\nthe end of the year! Keep your eyes peeled for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DORIS DANGER&#8217;S GREATEST ALL-OUT ARMY<br \/>\nBATTLES!&#8221; featuring giant monster war pin-ups by<br \/>\nDICK AYERS, SAM GLANZMAN, RUSS HEATH,<br \/>\nand JOHN SEVERIN!<\/p>\n<p>Once that&#8217;s out, we&#8217;ll follow it up with<br \/>\nDORIS DANGER &#8230; IN OUTER SPACE!&#8221; with outer<br \/>\nspace giant monster pin-ups by JH WILLIAMS III,<br \/>\nAL FELDSTEIN, DAVE GIBBONS, and<br \/>\nPETER BAGGE! What a line-up!<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>STOP SENDING ME %&amp;*!??#?!<\/p>\n<p>Tired of receiving spam from TABLOIA? Email us back,<br \/>\nwith the above message!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading, fans! &#8211; Rob Oder, editor-in-chief!<br \/>\nwww.chriswisniaarts.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note from your friends at www.chriswisniaarts.com! ITEM! At last, the wait is over! 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