MESS
"...4
out of 5 stars...This is one weird comic. You have not seen anything like
this before."
----------------Richard Vasseur, Jazma Online
"Dietrich’s style proves as whimsical as any Disney feature, yet remains stubbornly unsentimental, as ultimately feel-good as a Holocaust war photo. If Winnie the Pooh’s Eeyore was ever tossed on stage and told to become a motivational speaker, his twelve-step program might read something like Mess...I utterly adored Mess."
---------------Dave Baxter, Broken Frontier.com
"If you’re new to Dietrich, this might actually be a good place to start, as it’s sordid and seedy and yet not as relentlessly bleak as his graphic novel Industriacide, which probably should have been packaged with Prozac...Definitely worth picking up, if only to read one of the best comic creators you’ve never heard of."
-------------------Andrea Speed, Comixtreme.com
Sean Dietrich is a channeler. His head is a repository. A mess of voices haunt him constantly. A 14 year old William S. Burroughs and 18 year old Hunter S. Thompson drive him mad. His hand is possessed by the future ghost of Ralph Steadman. Sean Dietrich's head is a vortex of time-ghosts. How else can you explain the exquisite 'Mess'? An underground comic whose drawings match the distorted psychosis of the main character. A look into our dark side. Its roots firmly trenched in beatnik wordings, complemented by the mad stylings of a more illustrative tradition than spandex drawings.
---------------------Bart Croonenborghs, Broken Frontier.com
INDUSTRIACIDE
"Industriacide
has some things in common with Citizen Kane. It's incredibly innovative
for one thing. Like Orson Welles, Dietrich tries some things in his medium
that have never been tried before."
-------- Michael May, Comic World News
“Industriacide
is a real mind-fuck; it's about as far as you
can get from mainstream comics, and if you're looking for a trippy, dark
journey, here you'll find it.... It's a dense book; Sean Dietrich's heady,
heavy, twisted images are splashed with hidden meanings and double meanings,
with visual symbolism dripping off the page.”
“A darkly poetic and drugged-out dystopia. "Industriacide"
is smothered in ink and oppression, and will leave you gasping for air.
Terrifying, gorgeous, and unexpectedly charming. “
--------- Matt J. Phillion, The Small Press Magazine
“The creator embraces the most tortured and disturbing aspects of
human emotion, making for an unusual, chilling read.
“The book is indeed quite beautiful, as Dietrich's artwork is powerful
and creepy. His detailed work seems ideally suited for black and white,
and he creates violent and savage imagery that I would liken to the works
of Roman Dirge or Jhonen Vasquez, although Dietrich uses this style not
for dark humor but simply for darkness. “
--------- Don & Randy, www.thefourthrail.com
FERVOR
"...the
true star here is
Dietrich’s edgy, hyperactive art;
he does a terrific job of selling the nasty reality of each moment in this
woman’s life, and you believe in it as you pore through each page."
---------By Marc Nathon, MoviePoopShoot.com
"The art contains an intriguing mix of elegant beauty and misshapen
horror that reminded me of a Tool video if directed by Tim Burton...Simply
put, if there is a book on the market that is as visually compelling in
a twisted sense, I have yet to see it."
---------- By Kert McAfee, Brokenfrontier.com
"Dietrich
is the author/illustrator of the unrelentingly bleak Industriacide, so you
know going in not to expect the cheerful, feel good comic of the decade."
" It’s so different from your average comic book art it’s
laudable just for that, although that’s not the only thing it has
going for it. It’s dark, eerie, and grotesque when it needs to be.
You really do feel like you’re immersed in another world entirely,
a dark and revealing one."
---------Andrea Speed, Comixtreme.com
ME