As we revamp “Tabloia Weekly Magazine: The Web Blog”, we find for the first time, going through the Tabloia vaults to pull out all this old work, that it really wasn’t very good! Much of what we’ve posted here was conceived and scripted and lain out as early as 2001! “The Lump” and early “Doris Danger” stories which went to press in 2004, were actually drawn in 2002! This realization of outdated, amateurish shoddiness prompted us to begin publishing this latest Tabloia series … “Other Projects!” Expect to see pin-ups for other people’s comics, a short story from an anthology, CD art, a trading card, and, well … that’s about it, actually!
Here’s our first, which is still OLD! -Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!
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This is a pin-up I did for Jason Robert Bell’s CAVEMAN ROBOT comic, “Oolar! Stories from the Wild World of Caveman Robot” and “Tetragrammatron One With Two!” (Tetragrammatron Press) back in 2005. Yes, that is all one title – it was a flipbook, with “Oolar! Stories from the Wild World of Caveman Robot” on one side, and then you flip the book over and there will be “Tetragrammatron One With Two.” If you’re like me, you’ll read and re-read that book’s title, and try and make linguistical sense of it.
The book is 44 pages of black and white madness by Britton Walters, Jason Robert Bell, Shoshanna Weinberger, Luc Thomas, Chris Wisnia (my pin-up is colored and text is added) and Greg Cook! You can get more details at www.cavemanrobot.com!
I later used a portion of the image for the inside front cover and title page of my second Doris Danger treasury, “Doris Danger Seeks … Where Urban Creatures Creep and Stomp!” (2007)
I removed Caveman Robot and added a couple passersby which I swiped from another Doris Danger page from the same book, which you can see here, if you look around a bit:
Fans! You can buy our self-published Doris Danger comics on our MERCHANDISE PAGE! You can buy the 96-page “Doris Danger Giant Monster Adventures at AMAZON.COM! (You’ll find OOPF, but you won’t find the above leg picture included!)