Joseph Michael Linsner has quickly become one of the comic book industry's most celebrated artists. While he is most often associated with beautiful women, Linsner's paintings also incorporate a rich vocabulary of symbolic subtext, weaving images of theology, psychology, and myth together into a moving fabric of line and color.

Cry for Dawn Volume I, published in 1989, marked Linsner's debut as both publisher and writer/artist. Cry for Dawn Publications released nine issues of its flagship title, as well as the Linsner/Monks collaboration Subtle Violence, before disbanding in 1993.

Since then Sirius Publishing has released a collection of Linsner's Cry for Dawn work called Angry Christ Comics, a limited edition book called Tears for Dawn, one issue of the full-color Drama, and Linsner's most ambitious work, the six-issue Dawn series. It tells the story of Linsner's most popular creation, Dawn, as she travels between Heaven, Hell and New York, and is now available in the collected volume, Dawn: Lucifer's Halo.

He also provides covers and stories for the Crypt of Dawn series. Linsner's newest card set is Dawn: Another Card Set, the sequel to his extremely popular card set, Dawn and Beyond. He has also designed a Dawn statue, sculpted by Randy Bowen, which was a phenomenal success, winning Diamond's Gem Award for 1998. Linsner's art has also inspired the full-length Gary Numan CD Dawn. He has also painted covers for DC Comics, CHAOS!, London Night Studios, Topps, Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated, Gallery Girls, Wizard magazine, Forbidden Zone, Jitterbug Press and Vampirella, and has done too many short stories and pinup works to list here. His art was featured in 1998's Spectrum, and will also be in 99's.

In spring of 1999, McFarlane Toys produced the very first Dawn action figure.

Joe is a busy, busy man and currently is hard at work on his Dawn: Return of the Goddess minseries, which helps commemorate Dawn's 10-year anniversary, as well as some commemoratives -- a mug, print, mousepad and poster -- to celebrate ten whole years of his favorite goddess.

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