Funnies Extra! is a free, full color 16-page tabloid filled with funnies and puzzles 10,000 copies of Funnies Extra! are distributed weekly in Waldo and Knox Counties in Maine to hotels, diners, coffee shops, restaurants, auto repair shops, hospitals, physicians’ offices, dental practices, etc. The content in Funnies Extra! appeals to consumers of all ages.
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Midcoast Maine’s NEW Monthly Funnies Newspaper! Your Local Source for Comics, Puzzles, Word Games, Humor Columns and More! To Advertise, email [email protected] or call 557-3261 business card design | web design | print ad design | photo editing | brochure design | logo design | stationery design | menu design Chris and Heather Quimby of NachoTree Print & Digital Design welcome Funnies Extra! to Waldo and Knox Counties. 91 Lang Hill Highway, Brooks, ME 04921 | nachotree.com | [email protected]| 207.557.3251 print & digital design simple effective NachoTree Print & Digital Design is happy to provide complimentary, professional ad design to Funnies Extra! FUNNIES EXTRA! MIDCOAST EDITION | VOL 1 - MARCH 2012 FREE MIDCOAST EDITION
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Midcoast Maine’s NEW Monthly Funnies Newspaper! Your Local Source for Comics, Puzzles, Word Games, Humor Columns and More! To Advertise, email [email protected] or call 557-3261
business card design | web design | print ad design | photo editing | brochure design | logo design | stationery design | menu design
Chris and Heather Quimby of NachoTree Print & Digital Design welcome Funnies Extra! to Waldo and Knox Counties.
91 Lang Hill Highway, Brooks, ME 04921 | nachotree.com | [email protected] | 207.557.3251
print & digital designsimple effective
NachoTree Print & Digital Design is happy to providecomplimentary, professional ad design to Funnies Extra!
FUNNIES EXTRA! MIDCOAST EDITION | VOL 1 - MARCH 2012
FREEMIDCOASTEDITION
2012 Trek Across Maine June 15 - 17, 2012
Cycle with us! Volunteers needed! From the mountains of Sunday River to the sea in Belfast,
cycle 170 miles across the state in support of the American Lung Association.
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The views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the publisher, advertisers or employees of NachoTree Print & Digital Design. NachoTree Print & Digital Design is not responsible for any advertising errors beyond the first printing of any Display Ad. Additional contributor informa-tion can be found on the website URL’s above. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced or copied without permission from Funnies Extra, LLC.
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Welcome to the fi rst issue of Funnies Extra! My name is Chris Quimby and my wife and I will provide this fun publi-cation to Waldo and Knox Counties monthly at fi rst, then weekly once it matures and gains popularity. But who are we and why should you care? I grew up in Waldo County in Bel-fast, skinning up my knees playing Ton-ka dump trucks with my friend, Frank, and doing body fl ips on the iron hand-rail leading up to the entrance of what was the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Th at was my neighborhood back then at the corner of Court and Spring Streets, playing Whiffl e Ball on the lawn of what was the Crosby Junior High School or attending an impromptu concert by one of my friends who would stand on the Dumpster and sing songs from the movie, Grease. My family moved away aft er my freshman year of high school (I went with them), an event I was quite sure would end my life. It, however, did not, and aft er fi nishing high school in an-other town, overpaying for an under-
graduate education and meeting my fu-ture wife, Heather, we settled in Waldo County in a town called Brooks, where we have lived for the last 14 years. My wife is from Up North, an area that is quite large and includes many potatoes and sometimes very few de-grees Fahrenheit. She met me in the mid-nineties while I was engaged in a lucrative career working at a local con-venience store in Winterport. Th e name of the store was Steamboat Exxon. Some people, to this day, refer back to the event as the “Steamboat Romance”. Heather has worked as a hair stylist in the greater Belfast area for over ten years until recently sensing an urge to give her life a “fresh do”. My employer of the last eleven years downsized in October of 2011, and of-fered its employees the option of volun-tarily severing their employment at that time. At fi rst, the consideration wasn’t anywhere in my mind, as I kept getting requests from businesses for me to mail them money, and my former employer used to give me lots of money every week. It seemed to me to be a pretty good arrangement. However, I’d recently grown uncom-fortable with being comfortable. It had seemed to me of late rather empty to maintain a cycle of working hard, earn-ing money, paying for something, then repeating the process until death. I know, I know. Th at’s life. But I felt like I was ready for more.
Th ere’s great security in a 9-5 job working for someone else and, as a good friend of mine who I met on a missions trip to Ecuador last summer said, “be-ing self-employed is a great gig if you can avoid losing your mind”. Fortunately for me, I felt like I had very little mind to lose. I accepted the buyout and started my own freelance graphic arts business called NachoTree Print & Digital Design and planned to use its income and an occasional stand-up comedy engagement to bring home the bread. Soon aft er, my friend, Josh Alves, who is an illustrator (whose work you’ll fi nd within these pages) and recently also shrugged off the perceived security of the “daily grind” to pursue his craft , presented me with the opportunity to off er this unique product to my area. Funnies Extra! is a new product and we have the great honor of being the fi rst in the world to print and distribute it. But isn’t this crazy? Haven’t we heard on many occasions that print media is dying? Sure, print media is suff ering, espe-cially in its present form. But Funnies Extra! is unlike what’s out there. Th ere are no shortage of quality pub-lications in our area, including the Ban-gor Daily News, Village Soup’s Gazette and Journal, Th e Scene, Th e Free Press and Th e Maine Edge. We wish them all well as they off er information and en-tertainment to the area.
But we are not them. We are diff er-ent. I hope you enjoy this free publication and consider patronizing the advertisers that generously support its existence. And, if you’re looking for a fresh me-dium to communicate the uniqueness of your business or organization, I in-vite you to speak with us about which of only 20 ad spots in Funnies Extra! might work best for you. And unlike a child in the back seat of a car during a long trip, you will never hear one of our ads scream out, “Billy keeps touch-ing me!”, partly because we do not name our ads “Billy” and also because they all have plenty of “personal space”. You will never see more than two ads on a page in Funnies Extra! Th at’s how we roll. And one last thing. My heart goes out to those who work in cold call sales for a living. My wife and I have been operat-ing in that capacity during the last two months and have no idea how people maintain their sanity in that line of work. It is less than comfortable to walk into a business with a smile and a briefcase and immediately draw the countenance of a decision-maker who evidently as-sumes that we have approached them to deliver leprosy to their community. We do not have leprosy. I have had a slight case of dandruff , but using the appropriate shampoo does wonders. We want to be your friend. Th at’s no joke. Th anks for reading. :-)
A Message from the Publisher Guy
Who are we andwhat in the world
are we doing?by Chris Quimby
Chris Quimby is a husband, father of two and owner of NachoTree Print & Digital Design in Brooks, Maine. A graphic designer and standup comedian, Chris has over 10 years experience in the print in-dustry and can also say his alphabet backwards. In addition to off ering Funnies Extra! to Waldo and Knox Counties with his wife, Heather, he also posts way too oft en on Facebook, once even being blocked by his best friend. Chris can be reached at [email protected] or facebook.com/ChrisQuimby
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Each month Funnies Extra! will feature at least four straight issues of comic strips and panels from aspiring, non-syndicated cartoonists. Comic strips or car-toon panels will be published from cartoonists of any age with a short bio. For submis-sion guidelines and information, go to: www.funnies-extra.com/submissions. Send each furnished strip as a PDF fi le along with your name, age, address and phone number. Send 5 to 10 color submissions to: [email protected] and type “Spotlight” in the subject line. Good luck and have fun! (participation void where prohibited)
Whether screaming out a song parody of his adventures shopping for a mobile home or delighting
audiences with a steady diet of intellectually-pleasing non-sequiturs, Chris Quimby draws from his unique mind and ten years of experience
performing standup comedy to coax out continuous laughter.
Named twice as Bangor, Maine’s Funniest Person, Chris Quimby has opened for Brian Regan, The Maine Hysterical Society, Jimmy Dunn, Paul Mecurio, and Tim Sample, performing in such places as the Collins Center for the Arts, Mansfield Stadium and various churches.
Call 207.557.3251 to learn how you can book Chris Quimby to entertain at your next church event.
People laugh atChris Quimby.
And it’s always clean.
chrisQuimby.com
Cart nist Sp tlight
Pokeweed! A small town with big fun. It’s the anywhere and everywhere town on the map, but just south of no-where. Living in Pokeweed, anything can happen, but always with loads of fun. A simple life pokes at ya from Drew Pocza.
Home to cartoon titles includ-ing Out to Lunch, The Cartoon Gospel, Religious Light, and KNOTS or Not Scout Car-toons!
Rich is a prodigious cartoonist in many different markets that
appeals to a wide audience.
Thanks to over 1.2 million visits to his web site and over 35,000 to last year’s “The Cartoon Days of Christmas” (TCDC), Rich enjoys success far outside the norm for most cartoonists.
Rich Diesslin is a member of the National Car-toonists Society. To view his extensive collection, go to: www.the-cartoonist.com
Funnies Extra! can provide a loving home for advertisers. With only 20 spots available, your ad will never get lost. Your full color design will never be hidden among others and your business needs
will be exceeded with friendly, small-town service. Reach Waldo and Knox Counties in 10,000 copies per edition in a unique and
fun publication and become part of the Funnies Extra! family.
Call 557-3261, email [email protected] or visit funnies-extra-maine.com for information.
