Happy Anniversary To Us

(As of yesterday, we're one year old. Thanks to everyone who's contributed and visited the site thus far. Please keep those cards and letters coming. Here's the press release we put together to make it seem like we're important and high-falutin' and all that.)

Dog Oil Press Marks Anniversary Of Bringing Dark Humor To The Masses

Online publisher of black humor celebrates its one-year anniversary in January, 2010.

For Immediate Release 
December 5, 2009 -- An esteemed gentleman by the name of Danish Proverb once said, "It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune." To which the publishers of Dog Oil Press say - well, no. Not at all. It's actually a great art to laugh at the misfortunes of others and a helluva lot more fun.

Which is why Dog Oil Press takes great pride in announcing that it will celebrate it's one-year anniversary of bringing black humor to the masses in January, 2010. As the average Mensa candidate should be able to deduce, this means the publication got underway in January, 2009.

An online publication that specializes in black humor, Dog Oil Press showcases an original work of darkly humorous fiction or poetry every Saturday - with the exception of the last Saturday of each month. Among the knee-slapping misfortunes treated in our pages thus far, the most thorough suicide attempt ever, accidental self-immolation, deliberate self-immolation, recovering serial killers, a particularly evil undead poodle, rats in a dryer, a shark in the bathtub, a dog-eating sandwich and oh so much more.

Dog Oil Press takes its name from Oil of Dog, a short story by Ambrose Bierce and a brief but effective example of the black humor sub genre. Black humor or black comedy, in the words of Wikipedia, the ultimate arbiter of everything in the human experience, is "a sub-genre of comedy and satire in which topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo are treated in a satirical or humorous manner while retaining its seriousness." Yeah, baby.