Angry Christ Comix [Paperback]

Joseph Michael Linsner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1994

While pictures may be deemed "art" and words dubbed as "literature," what is the stigma that keeps comics from such acclaim? Here, Joseph Michael Linsner, a master of the illustrated media, presents his best selection of early comic stories from the legendary comic book, CRY FOR DAWN. Horror, fantasy, mystery, wonder and shock are processed through the creator's singular, New York point-of-view, to form a collection that will entertain your brain as well as your eyes! Is it art? Is it literature? Or is it just a collection of cool stories with art that doesn't suck?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"One of the best horror anthology comics I've seen in a long time. Linsner's artwork is extraordinary and his horror stories work because they are so real...These stories work because deep down we know that these people live next door to us. Dawn ain't so bad lookiing either." -- The Staros Report

About the Author

Joseph Michael Linsner was born on Friday, December 13th, 1968 in Flushing, Queens. A self-trained artist, he has done production paintings and storyboards for many a client, including Swatch, Nestle and Ziplock Bags (he painted the green thumb that Fingerman meets in the commercials). His follow-up to the ANGRY CHRIST COMIX collection was the intensely popular DAWN miniseries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sirius Entertainment Inc (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579890008
• ISBN-13: 978-1579890001
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,665,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Compilation of the Cry for Dawn series, April 13, 2000

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Natasha Arnhold - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angry Christ Comix (Paperback)

This is great for any intellectual out there, its a compilation of the Cry for Dawn comic book series, which was writen in the end of the 80's, all black and white work, except for the cover (which has Dawn the character herself, who latter on becames a heroine in some of his comic book series) its very melancholic, somewhat depressing, very dark, but that goes with his style which is very gothic indeed, if u like gothic, you'll adore this, intelectual and with some good art work, I found it to be a classic comic book compilation, represents a side of the eighties all too well, for those who experienced the darker side of it, and for those who havent, you'll grasp some of it with this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE COMICS MASTERPIECE!, January 28, 2007

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angry Christ Comix (The Cry for Dawn) (Paperback)

I still remember picking up Cry for Dawn #1. At the time I was working at a Detroit Area comic book shop, one of the largest in fact. The late 80's and early 90's were a horrible era for comic books. It was all about excess...If the Punisher or Batman was popular, hey...let's give them three or four of their own titles, and lets have them guest-star in just about every other book we put out! And while were at it, lets make this issue have five different colors, or make it with a hologram, or die-cut, or prismatic, or foil. Into this mundane comic book landscape walked, no slashed Joseph Michael Linsner and Cry for Dawn. This was as extreme as comics had ever been outside of the underground arena and I remember how we had to sell that book in our adult section along with vintage Playboy and Penthouse magazines.

Nearly twenty years later, Image has brought together those outstanding stories by Linsner in Angry Christ Comix. I think its' safe to say that the last 17 or 18 years have done nothing to dull the razor sharp edge of Linsner's work. These are a true testament to just how far ahead of his time that he was. The work is haunting, often sadistic, and always spectacular, from cover-to-cover.

The opening story, "Kingdom of the Blind" finds a down on his luck artist commissioned by a mysterious woman to tattoo strange symbols throughout belly & chest, returning every few weeks to have additional work added and paying the artist huge sums of money for his skills. The shock of what the symbols are for is no less disturbing today than it was when first published.

"Burns Brightest" could even be considered more controversial today. After Jules has a one night stand with a woman and contracts the HIV virus, he decides to take his revenge on the world by sleeping with as many woman as he can. A repugnant, yet powerful story.

Other stories include "Bring me a Dream", "The Realist", "Eleven or One", and many more. The subject matter is strictly for mature audiences due to nudity, language, and graphic violence. This work had to have many other artists jealous and if it didn't, it should have. Just 21 when Cry for Dawn #1 was released, Linsner already was displaying the story-telling ability of a season veteran. Angry Christ Comix is a book that any true comic lover should have in their collection.

REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real nice for the horror/SF-fans, June 20, 2001

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Ron Tothleben ([e-mail]) (Tilburg, Netherlands, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angry Christ Comix (Paperback)

This is a book that collects the better stories of the immensly succesfull "Cry for Dawn" series by Joseph Michael Linsner, the serie that was the breakthrough for Linsner and the first Dawn-series. People who liked 'Dawn' must surely pick this up (also because the original issues are near impossible to find AND darn expensive if you do find them). I personally think it's not as good as the later six-part miniseries "Dawn" (later in TPB renamed as 'Lucifers halo') but that's not a negative point, it says more about the quality of the latter series. It's still very close though.

The stories within this trade aren't related to each other, there's no continuity. The only things they have in common is that the stories center around Dawn, the goddess of life and death. Tales with a lot of symbolism and surrealism in them. It's more a collection of loose stories which are especially suitable for the Fantasy/Horror lovers.