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Chris Wisnia

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About Me

I write, draw, and self-publish comics. My website is www.tabloia.com . By day, I'm a mild-mannered guitar instructor. Here are some comics I've made (click on them to learn more):
WHAT A FANTASTIC WEB COMIC! Dick Hammer: The Dailies! Mystery! Murder! Arson! Brutal action! Unlikely coincidence! An attempted murder that leaves a man in a wheelchair! Hard-Boiled Suspense! Not one but TWO cases of amnesia! Mistaken identities! And lurid romance! Go to "www.tabloia.com/hammerweb.shtml every week...or so!
"Doris Danger Seeks...Where Urban Creatures Creep and Stomp!"
Featuring cover by Shag, and giant monster pin-ups by MIKE ALLRED, GUY DAVIS, 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 MORE??????!!
64 pages/B&W/humongous treasury-sized DIAMOND ITEM NO: MAY07 3695
"Doris Danger in Outer Space"
Featuring out-of this world giant monster pin-ups by Dave Gibbons, Al Feldstein, JH Williams III, and Peter Bagge!
16 pages/B&W/comic-sized DIAMOND ITEM NO: OCT06 3628
"Doris Danger Greatest All-Out Army Battles!"
Featuring all-out army pin-ups of giant monsters by Russ Heath, Dick Ayers, Sam Glanzman, and John Severin!
16 pages/B&W/comic-sized DIAMOND ITEM NO: SEP06 3539
"Dr. DeBunko: Debunker of the Supernatural"
"The coolest, hippest thing to hit skepticism since Lisa Simpson began reading Junior Skeptic magazine (when Homer had his alien abduction experience)" — Michael Shermer
mature readers/32 pages/B&W/comic-sized DIAMOND ITEM NO: AUG06 3525
"The Lump Trade Paperback"
Collecting the critically acclaimed film noir/mad scientist/ tabloid horror mystery of a body found on the freeway in pieces! "Demented and highly enjoyable." -- Fourthrail.com
"Some of the best comic book fun I've had in years." -- Comixfan.com
"My favorite comic of the week." -- Comicbookresources.com
mature readers/160 pages/B&W/comic-sized DIAMOND ITEM NO: APR063328
"Doris Danger Seeks...Where Giant Monsters Creep and Stomp!"
Jack Kirby-style giant monster action, INKED BY DICK AYERS! Giant monster pin-ups by Mike Allred, Thomas Yeates, Gene Colan, Sam Kieth, Irwin Hasen, Bill Sienkiewicz, Gilbert Hernandez, Mario Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Ryan Sook, Steve Rude, John Severin, Mike Mignola, Ramona Fradon, and Tony Millionaire!
56 pages/B&W/treasury-sized 9x13
"Ojo"
By Sam Kieth, with Chris Wisnia and Alex Pardee. Published by Oni Press.
mature readers/128 pages/B&W/manga-sized
"Tabloia Weekly Magazine #572-576"
First appearance of The Lump! First appearance of Dick Hammer: Conservative Republican Private Investigator! First appearance of Dr. DeBunko: Debunker of the supernatural! First appearance of Doris Danger...Where Giant Monsters Creep and Stomp!
mature readers/32 pages each/B&W/comic-sized

My Interests

reading books and comics, music, art, film...I guess that's it...

I'd like to meet:

Friends, fans, folks I'm a fan of, folks who support indie comics, and for God's sake, comics shops! Sorry, ladies! This bronco's been saddled! (Happily married since 2001!)

Music:

The Pixies, Pavement, The Archers of Loaf, Treepeople, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, The White Stripes, Disco, 1970's Funk, bad '80's modern rock, '70's mullet-sportin' hard rock, 1960's Space Age Bachelor Pad music.

Movies:

any film noir from the 1940's or 1950's (Laura, The Killing, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Blue Dahlia, Dead Reckoning, Murder My Sweet, Out of the Past, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, The Third Man). 1930's -'40's horror, especially if it's got Peter Lorre. Anything with Vincent Price, or by Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, or the Coen Brothers... Oh, and maybe the first fifteen James Bond films.

Television:

I don't really watch tv. The Twilight Zone, the 1960's Batmans with Adam West and Burt Ward, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the X-Files, the Simpsons, Exploring the Unknown.

Books:

Any dictionary or encyclopedia put out by the Skeptics Society or Michael Shermer. Junior Skeptic Magazine. The four-volume Devil series by Jeffrey Burton Russell. "The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology" by Hope Rossell Robbins. Charles Bukowski. Kurt Vonnegot. Jules Verne, H. G. Welles. Classic crime fiction by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Cornell Woolrich, Charles Williams, Jim Thompson. Trashy pulp fiction by Mickey Spillane. Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Exceptionally trashy Doc Savage. And do comics count? Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Alan Moore, Mike Mignola, Wally Wood, EC Suspense and horror and Sci-Fi Comics, Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives (especially Premiani's Doom Patrol and Creig Flessel's Sandman), Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future...

Heroes:

Heroes? What, like Spider-Man? There's no such thing as that stuff.

My Blog

DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES!

Don't forget to check in on the hardboiled adventures of your favorite, Mickey Spillane-style private detective,  Dick Hammer!  Go to http://tabloia.com, and click on "DICK HAMMER!"  Hi...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:44:00 PST

102. DINNER FROM HELL, Super-Con, May 20, 2006

From the Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist!(Visit http://tabloia.com right away!)Toward the end of the day, we asked Ryan Sook if he had any dinner plans, and he invited us to join him and a couple ...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:12:00 PST

Oakland Super-Con, May 21, 2006

From the Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist! (go to http://tabloia.com for all the sordid details!Oakland Super-Con, May 21, 2006After the first day, many artists who we spent a little time with sai...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:24:00 PST

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! S...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:51:00 PST

TABLOIA MAILER #3579

This mailer really is just spam, fans! Enjoy!* * *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 day...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:43:00 PST

Dr. DeBunko on "Point of Inquiry" podcast

D.J. Grothe, at "Point of Inquiry," the premiere podcast of the Center for Inquiry, interviewed me about my Dr. Debunko comic. Wanna listen? Please stop over to: http://www.pointofinquiry.org/ Sp...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:01:00 PST

Tabloia Mailer #4760

..[if !supportEmptyParas]-->..[endif]-->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 tim...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

Tabloia Mailer .9614

Greetings Fans!  What a lot of news we have to share (compared to last mailer, when there was literally no news!)! DICK HAMMER: THE DAILIES Your favorite Private Investigator, DICK HAMMER, ...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:34:00 PST

SETTING UP FOR MEGA-CON, Orlando FL, Feb 24-26, 2006

From the Diary of a Struggling Comics Artist!Go to www.tabloia.com for the whole story! 80. SETTING UP FOR MEGA-CON, Orlando FL, Feb 24-26, 2006 Or, More of Chris...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:12:00 PST

76. SHOUTING TECHNIQUES at Wondercon 2006

From the Diary of a Struggling Comics Self-Publisher!Please be sure to visit www.tabloia.com for the full story!While standing at my booth, I happened by chance to see a number of cool people walking ...
Posted by Chris Wisnia on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:07:00 PST