Cry for Dawn Books

This book is so good. I couldn't put it down. I've read it over 10 times and burst into tears everytime. I recommend this book to everyone!

i loved this book. normally i read books and i end up putting them down.but this one is exactly the type of book that i love. its breath taking, romantic, the type of book a girl would read and read over and over again. this book sends a message that stays in your head forever and ever! if you go to a library and you find this book, i highly recommend reading it. it is a great book that at any time the oppertunity to read it should never be turnd down.
ashley .s.

The book I read is called Dawn Rochelle 4 novels. Its by Lurlene McDaniel. The book has many up and downs, and emotional. There are also some funny times, and romantic. Dawn Rochelle is thirteen when she is going threw the best times in her life. She popular, pretty, and just made the cheerleading squad. Till she finds out she has to get a check up.
"Dawn, you have cancer." The doctor tells her calmly.
They have her go threw chemotherapy till they can get the right blood type to get a bone marrow transplant. Her brothers the closes match, but he suppose to get married and his fiancée thinks its going to ruin the wedding plans.
When Dawns in the hospital she gets a roommate that ends up being her best friend threw out the book. The doctor recommends a camp for them both to go to. But Sandys not able to go because shes stuck in a difference hospital during the summer cause she ends up getting even worse threw out the book.
At camp Dawn meets two new friends. They make everything better for the whole summer and they do funny pranks on the directors and have romantic times by the fires with the one she thinks shes in love with. Days go by and camps over with.
You'll have to read the book to find out what else happens. Overall I would recommend this book because it's an engaging book.

In Lurelene McDaniel's Dawn Rochelle's four novels it is a heart wrenching book. As you are reading you want to keep reading more and more and you do not want to let your book down. This book is filled with life lessons to be learned. The book is about Dawn Rochelle who has found out that she has cancer. Now, only does she have to face death in the face, but also has to learn how to adjust to the outside world after recovering. She has to learn how to deal with death and losing the people she holds dearest. After she recovers she feels as though she is an pariah. Everyone treats her differently just because she has the disease. She has a different point of view on life now. She can see what truly matters in life over just the teenage things. This is a very easy book to read not overly pedantic

wow! i couldn't put the book down. i've read one and i read the books within half of a school day. even though i'm not going through what she's going through...cancer wise...i can relate to what she was saying. i burst into tears. i'm so touched by the relationship with her brother and her. i could just see everything. i loved it! i can't wait to read some more. i've heard great stuff about this author and everyone's been right so far. thanks.

When does a good "horror" story become cheesy? Read this collection and you'll find out.

I literally had to force myself to read this entire book. The stories try way too hard to come across as horrific and intelligent but, in my opinion, fail on both levels. These stories remind me of the Saturday Night Live skit where two Goth kids sit in the basement making a public access show which turns out to be unintentionally funny while they are trying to appear dark and deep.

I will give the book credit as far as the artwork. Some of the illustrations are amazing. It's just a shame that there was no good story to use them in.

Previous reviewer Tim Janson said it best, Joseph Michael Linsner was ahead of his time. For proof of that, look no further than Angry Christ Comix. Collecting stories from Linsner's acclaimed Cry For Dawn, Angry Christ Comix compiles some of the most horriffic, darkly funny, and startlingly poignant horror tales you will ever find in comic book form. Particularly "Burns Brightest", in which a young man learns he has AIDS after a one night stand, and sets out for revenge by infecting as many women as possible. "Dropping Anchor" finds an unhappy rocker stradled with a wife and baby wishing for freedom, while the darkly humerous "Dead" focuses on a punked out vampire and his bloody insights. There's much more in this collection, including some single page chapters entitled "A Page With No Meaning", which are funny as well as surprisingly thought provoking. Linsner truly was a man ahead of his time, with his incredible and stark artwork combined with his blood curdling tales. All in all, if you have never read or even heard of any of Linsner's works, you have been missing out to say the least, and you owe it to yourself to pick this collection up.

These stories keep seeing publication, this being, I'm not sure, maybe the third incarnation of the TPB that first collected the angry works of Joseph Michael Linsner. The stories contained in these pages are not really a best of, but more the ones he was most personally responsible for. Cry For Dawn, the comic series has seen a surge of interest it really didn't have in it's initial release. People, comic fans have slowly discovered the art of Joseph Michael Linsner over time and are now seeking his earlier work, which, to be honest was quite good, but nowhere near the polished images he puts out today.

Cry For Dawn was an anthology series that ran from 1989 to roughly 1993. The issues came out sporadically and featured the work of quite a few artists and writers like Kevin J. Taylor, Greg "Dark One" WIlliams, Ken Meyer, Jr and of course Mr. Linsner himself. Joseph Linsner and Joseph Monks, whom he had started Cry For Dawn with, had a parting of ways which brought an end to the series and started Joseph Linsner on his path to stardom. After leaving CFD Publications, the name which Monks retained the rights to, he took his "eye" logo and Dawn herself and he went on to do some self-publishing, creating Tears of Dawn, then getting together with Robb Horan at Sirius and putting together a band of artists that rivaled anything the big guys had, featuring Drew Hayes (Poison Elves), Kevin J. Taylor (Fang), Greg "Dark One" Williams (Animal Mystic) and Joseph Linsner (Dawn) as the Art Director. With Sirius he published Drama, which featured the first full story appearance of Dawn, who in this TPB and throughout the Cry For Dawn series served simply as a hostess, sort of like a way sexier Crypt Keeper.

I will admit that I own every version of this book, being a comic collector, I probably only needed one, but being a collector of Joseph Linsners artwork, well, I simply had to have them all.

For the sake of the stories, which will scare you although they are truly more like urban horror stories than true "horror" stories, their social and societal relevance will make you stop and think, you only need one, but get one, and if possible, pick up the now hard to find and sometimes pricey original Cry For Dawn series (9 issues), the stories are fantastic and the artwork is phenomenal. You won't be disappointed.

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

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.