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I Reads You Review: OTHERS

Creator: Will Dinski
Publishing Information: self-published; 2-color, bound mini-comic, 9pp
Ordering Numbers: View at website: http://www.willdinski.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/pressman1.gif or purchase at conventions in which Dinski appears

Best known for his mini-comics, cartoonist Will Dinski lives and draws comics in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2003, Dinski received a BFA in Comic Art from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and in 2009, he won the Isotope Award for “Excellence in Mini-Comics.” Dinski’s first graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions, entitled Fingerprints, will debut later this year.

Dinski’s mini-comics are handmade books utilizing silk-screened printing on high-grade paper stock. One of those publications is entitled, Others. Dinski bound Others together using a single twine tied around the top of this 4.5” x 6” flip book. A colorful, paper band is wrapped around the book, acting as a kind of mini-dust jacket containing the title “Others,” and the following text: “Two short stories about the solitary and disenchanted.”

Printed in navy blue, the first story is entitled, “The Pressman,” which has as its protagonist a nightshift printer at a daily paper. Although he works at night, the printer spends his days downtown, following office workers around: eating lunch when they do, sitting in traffic with them for laughs, and generally spying on them. His efforts allow him to witness an executive scandal.

Printed in orange ink, the second story is “Get Away from Me,” and is narrated by a bird that makes critical comments about crowds as he watches the humans in the city below. Later, he has his own issues with the pack mentality.

The stories are a little odd, especially “Get Away from Me,” but they have an innate charm that shows through even when reading only a little of them at a time. The format for Dinski’s stories may seem unusual and even distinctive. However, in terms of visuals and narrative, they bear a resemblance to the comics of Dan Clowes and Adrian Tomine.

“The Pressman” has an oddly alluring Film-Noir quality, and the page design and structure also make it quite eye-catching. “The Pressman’s” structure features alternating panels that are either text only (dialogue or narration) or art only. It creates a rhythm that forces the reader to pay attention to each individual panel as the best way to understand the entire story when connecting all the panels as a linear narrative. I think that structure also limits what the reader will imagine happens in between panels.

Dinski’s ideas and stories are a good fit for the format in which he chose to publish Others. This is simply a charming little package is more than just a charming little package. It is also good comics.

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http://www.willdinski.com/

VIZ Media to Publish "Rosario + Vampire Season 2"

LIFE AND DEATH CONTINUE TO HANG IN THE BALANCE IN THE COMEDY AND ACTION MANGA SERIES ROSARIO + VAMPIRE: SEASON II

New Sequel To Bestselling Manga Chronicles Life At A Boarding School Filled With Monsters And The Undead

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, lets fans quench their desire for stories of the undead with the premiere of the sequel to Akihisa Ikeda’s smash hit manga series ROSARIO + VAMPIRE. ROSARIO + VAMPIRE: SEASON II will be published under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint and hits stores nationwide on April 6th with a ‘T+’ for Older Teens rating and a MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $12.99 CAN.

In this action filled series, average teenager Tsukune accidentally enrolled at a boarding school for monsters – no, not jocks or the popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches and other unnamable denizens from of his wildest nightmares! On the plus side, all of the girls have a major crush on him. But on the negative side, all the boys are so jealous they want to kill him! And so do the girls he spurns, because he only has eyes for one of them – the far-from-average vampire, Moka. Still, on the plus side, Moka only has glowing red eyes for Tsukune. But on the O-negative side, she also has a burning, unquenchable thirst for his blood!

“They’re sexy, they’re undead and unlike any student body you’ll find!” says Elizabeth Kawasaki, VIZ Media Senior Editorial Director. “The popularity of the vampire genre has exploded in the wake of films like Twilight and TV shows like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, but it’s also long been a favorite subject for manga. ROSARIO + VAMPIRE: SEASON II continues to find Tsukune’s life at Yokai Academy anything but normal. Readers will want to hold on tight to the page, and their souls, with this exciting new action comedy release from VIZ Media and Shonen Jump Advanced!”

Creator Akihisa Ikeda debuted in 2002 with the four-volume magical warrior fantasy series KIRUTO, which was serialized in Japan in Monthly Shonen Jump magazine, which later went on to feature ROSARIO + VAMPIRE beginning in March 2004. ROSARIO + VAMPIRE also spawned an animated series and a drama CD, produced by studio GONZO.

For more information on this title, or others from VIZ Media, please visit www.viz.com.

Image Comics to Publish "The Light," New Comic from "The Surrogates'" Brett Weldele

IMAGE COMICS SHEDS THE LIGHT ON HORROR THIS APRIL!


Surrogates Artist Brett Weldele and Olympus Writer Nathan Edmondson Kick Off Tale of Survival Horror in April

This April Surrogates illustrator Brett Weldele and OLYMPUS writer Nathan Edmondson warn you to close your eyes in their five-issue tale of survival horror, THE LIGHT!

"THE LIGHT is everything I love about horror combined into one story," Edmondson explained. "From a terror rooted in something everyone can relate to and broken protagonists doing their best to overcome absolute despair, this is the comic I've been wanting to read. Brett brings it to life with stunning visuals that grow in intensity as the story progresses."

In THE LIGHT, a mysterious virus infects anyone that looks into an electric light. The few survivors include a father escaping town with his blindfolded daughter as the infected burn alive from the inside out. A fierce, action-packed and gritty tale of survival, THE LIGHT is 28 DAYS LATER meets 30 DAYS OF NIGHT.

THE LIGHT #1, a 32-page full color comic book with a cover price of $2.99, was available for pre-order in the February issue of Previews and goes on sale April 14.

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