Charles Burns

Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz AwardsThe setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back.As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.And then the murders start.As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…

Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky. Who died years ago. But who’s nonetheless slinking out through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow.What’s going on? To say any more would spoil the freaky, Burnsian fun, especially because X’ed Out, unlike Black Hole, has not been previously serialized, and every unnervingly meticulous panel will be more tantalizing than the last...

Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall the mysterious incident that left his life shattered, an incident that may have involved his disturbed and now-absent girlfriend, Sarah, and her menacing ex-boyfriend.Doug warily seeks answers in a nightmarish alternate world that is a distorted mirror of our own, where he is a lowly employee that carts supplies around the Hive. The second part of Charles Burns's riveting trilogy, this graphic narrative will delight and surpass the expectations of his fans.

The long, strange trip that began in X'ed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending, heartbreaking end.Doug is forced to deal with the lie he's been telling himself since the beginning. In this concluding volume, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality...(With full-color illustrations throughout.)

The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativityAs a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the "bodies" to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy's friend Tina, and Laurie—his reluctant muse—sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 8 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian's favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian's dreams and reality, imagination and perception. A master of the form at his finest, Final Cut is an astonishing look at what it means to truly express oneself through art.

From the creator of the 2005 hit graphic novel Black Hole comes this new softcover edition of his other masterpiece of modern horror. Big Baby is a particularly impressionable young boy named Tony Delmonte, who lives in a seemingly typical American suburb until he sneaks out of his room one night and becomes entangled in a horrific plot involving summer camp murders and backyard burials. Burns' clinical precision as an artist adds a sinister chill to his droll sense of humor, and his affection for 20th-century pulp fiction permeates throughout, creating a brilliant narrative that perfectly captures the unease and fear of adolescence.

A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull--now in one volume.The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means . . . it will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug.(With full-color illustrations throughout)

An early cult classic graphic novel from the author of the acclaimed Black Hole . Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists.El Borbah features five science-fiction and true-detective episodes: In "Robot Love," rebellious kids in nightclubs replace their "parts" with mechanical substitutes as part of a new fad, only to find that their parents have been automating themselves all along; in "Love in Vein" a mad visionary sperm donor plans a master race and turns "his" kids against their parents; "Bone Voyage" details the exploits of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Bone, a kind of cross between the Masons and the Mansons. The fantastic plots take up the weird fears of a scientific society, but the action is pure pulp. Charles Burns effortlessly spins yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. And through it all crashes El Borbah, trying to make an honest buck from dishonest people.Burns is the author of Black Hole , the acknowledged masterpiece of the form that Fantagraphics serialized through the 1990s and will be collected into a massive graphic novel in 2005 by Pantheon Books. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.

Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series.Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog, which was turned into a live action segment on MTV's Liquid Television series; new covers and endpapers; as well as several pages of new illustrations from his sketchbooks, as well as covers and other drawings from foreign editions of his work.

Absorbé par l'image déformée que lui renvoie le grille pain en face de lui, Brian Milner s'aperçoit qu'il est en train de dessiner un auto-portait. Dans la pièce derrière lui, à des années lumières de sa propre pensée, ses amis font la fête. L'esprit de Brian a déjà traversé l'espace pour se perdre dans un autre monde où tout est plus vivant, plus étincelant, lorsqu'une ombre se glisse derrière lui. Cette première rencontre avec Laurie marque le début d'une nouvelle histoire dont elle jouera le rôle principal.Enchevêtrant subtilement le cinéma et la vraie vie, Dédales est le premier tome d'une série qui construit sa narration autour du rapport entre l'inconscient et sa représentation. Ce thème, qui puise ses sources dans les fondements de la psychanalyse, est ici décliné par Charles Burns à travers d'incroyables séquences où le rêve devient source d'inspiration de la fiction. Pour l'auteur, comme pour Brian, le personnage central de la série, la caméra et le crayon deviennent alors des outils introspectifs qui créent un pont entre l'imagination et la réalité. Burns s'amuse ainsi à nous semer dans différents niveaux de lecture pour mieux renforcer le sentiment d'étrangeté qui se dégage de ses illustrations. Il livre au passage un brillant hommage au cinéma fantastique et à sa capacité d'agir comme un miroir déformant de l'existence. Le premier tome de cette nouvelle série, publié en exclusivité mondiale, prouve une nouvelle fois le génie de Charles Burns à travers son aptitude à s'emparer de sujets toujours plus complexes tout en créant des liens délicats entre les disciplines artistiques, le tout, servi par un dessin époustouflant.

Since 2000, master cartoonist Charles Burns has been self-publishing a secret, handmade sketchbook zine titled Free S**t, exclusively for friends and VIPs. For the first time, Burns has compiled all twenty-five issues into a single pocket-sized volume for all of his fans to enjoy. Featuring finished drawings, rough sketches, process pieces, and more, the book is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at how characters and motifs in acclaimed works like Black Hole and Last Look have evolved.

Alors que le premier tome de Dédales marquait la rencontre entre Brian, un jeune réalisateur au regard déroutant, et Laurie, l'égérie de son nouveau film, l'heure est désormais venue de commencer le tournage. Entourés de quelques amis, les deux protagonistes se retrouvent dans une cabane perdue au milieu de la forêt pour filmer les premières scènes. Les images du film s'esquissent à peine et les tensions émergent déjà au sein du petit groupe isolé... Enchevêtrant subtilement le cinéma et la vrai vie, Dédales est une série qui construit sa narration autour du rapport entre l'inconscient et sa représentation. Ce thème, qui puise ses sources dans les fondements de la psychanalyse, est ici décliné par Charles Burns à travers d'incroyables séquences où le rêve devient source d'inspiration de la fiction. Pour Brian, le personnage central de la série, comme pour l'auteur, la caméra et le crayon deviennent alors des outils introspectifs qui créent un pont entre l'imagination et la réalité. Burns s'amuse ainsi à nous semer dans différents niveaux de lecture pour mieux renforcer le sentiment d'étrangeté qui se dégage de ses illustrations. Cette nouvelle série, publiée en exclusivité mondiale, prouve une nouvelle fois le génie de Charles Burns à travers son aptitude à s'emparer de sujets toujours plus complexes tout en créant des liens délicats entre les disciplines artistiques comme entre les personnages, le tout servi par un dessin époustouflant.

From the beguiling imagination of Charles 80 comic books that never were. Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed. The covers ― some with otherworldly titles in alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic genres ( Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love ) and eras ( Drug Buddy, Huss ) ― each inspire a multitude of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest entire narratives that lie within their non-existent guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work ― adolescence, metamorphosis, nightmares, and sexuality ― and provide a pretext for the creation of some of the most mysterious and bewitching imagery of Burns’s incredible career. Kommix is like discovering an entire box of comic books you never knew existed. Full-color illustrations throughout

Pour Brian Milner et Laurie Dunn, le clap de fin approche. Entourés de leurs amis, les deux protagonistes se réunissent une dernière fois près d’un lac pour tourner les ultimes scènes de leur film amateur. Le soir venu, autour du feu de camp sur lequel grillent les poissons pêchés dans la journée, l’heure est à la fête et toutes les conditions d’une happy end sont rassemblées. Pourtant, l’histoire ne semble pas suivre le storyboard initial...Enchevêtrant subtilement le cinéma et la vie réelle, Dédales est une série qui construit sa narration autour du rapport entre l’inconscient et sa représentation. Ce thème est ici décliné par Charles Burns à travers d’incroyables séquences où le rêve devient source d’inspiration de la fiction mais aussi une échappatoire à la réalité. Jouant avec la confusion des genres, Burns nous plonge dans une histoire qui oscille sans cesse entre science-fiction, romance et fantastique pour mieux nous emmener hors des sentiers battus. Il nous offre dans cet ultime tome un dénouement sublime qui, comme dans tout grand film, laisse de profondes réminiscences bien après le générique.

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Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back.As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it — what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it , or even to treat it. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself — the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start.As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…

A mediados de los 70, una epidemia que sólo afectaba a los adolescentes se cernió sobre los suburbios de Seattle. La llamaron "la plaga de los quinceañeros" y se manifestaba a través de síntomas de lo más impredecible. Para algunos no fue demasiado dramático: apenas unos bultos, tal vez un sarpullido. Otros, en cambio, se convirtieron en monstruos. Y no eran sólo síntomas pasajeros. Una vez contraías la infección, quedabas convertido en aquello para siempre.

Nos arredores de Seattle, em meados da década de 70, um espectro sem nome ronda os pensamentos dos adolescentes locais. Uma praga insidiosa se dissemina pelo contato sexual e parece não poupar ninguém. Em cada um dos infectados, ela se manifesta de forma diferente - enquanto alguns se safam com simples manchas na pele, outros se transformam em aberrações, criaturas deformadas, vagas lembranças do que foram um dia. Para esses, não resta alternativa a não ser o auto-exílio em acampamentos precários, afastados da civilização.

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Charles Burns' Harvey Award-winning Magnum Opus reaches its sixth issue with a particularly harrowing story. Keith and his pals go to a suburban high school party and take hits of "windowpane," a mistake which Keith becomes painfully aware of once the hallucinations set in. LSD-fueled panic ensues and he heads for the woods. The road he's on turns into an undulating living thing, with the moon as its eye, staring down at Keith and making soft moaning sounds. Hallucinations abound, images of bound-and-gagged figures whiz by... until suddenly, a severed human arm lays on the ground, and Keith realizes it isn't a hallucination. Burns is a master of modern horror, and he proves it with his worst visions to yet appear on paper in this issue.

The seventh, "nice" issue of Charles Burns's dark and forbidding tale of adolescence and physical mutations marks the midway point of Black Hole. Two new chapters flow ominously from Burns's heavy pen: In "Under Open Skies" Chris and her boyfriend Rob skip school and drive out to the ocean for a romantic day together during which they profess their love for each other. The tiny mouth on Rob's chest starts spouting cryptic messages, turning the whole day dark. "The Woods" shows Chris flashing back to the events that happened after the "Under Open Skies" chapter. Chris runs away from home and begins to live with Rob and his disfigured friends in the woods. She has an encounter with the same creepy guy we've seen in previous issues and freaks out. Burns proves he is a dominant force of graphic mastery and horror storytelling in the world today.

Don't let the cover fool you — this, the eighth issue in the incomparable series from the dark pen of Charles Burns, is the "sex" issue. Adolescence explodes into adulthood in the latest two chapters. In "Lizard Queen," Keith and Eliza kill some time on a warm spring night by getting high at the dump she lives in with a couple of amateur drug dealers. Oh yeah — and Keith loses his virginity when they make the beast-with-two-backs (and one tail). The second story, "I'm Sorry," follows Chris and her boyfriend Rob while they've been "visiting" at her campsite in the woods. Rob leaves, promising to return after dinner. While walking in the woods, his path is blocked by the mysterious monster boy we've seen lurking in the background a few times before. Uh...then he clubs Rob to death with an iron pipe. As his life is slipping away, the tiny mouth on Rob's neck speaks — revealing more mystery. If you like that tingly feeling you get just after twilight then Black Hole is for you!

A mediados de los 70, una epidemia que solo afectaba a los adolescentes se cernió sobre los suburbios de Seattle. La llamaron "la plaga de los quinceañeros" y se manifestaba a través de síntomas de lo más impredecible. Para algunos no fue demasiado dramático: apenas unos bultos, tal vez un sarpullido. Otros, en cambio, se convirtieron en monstruos. Y no eran sólo síntomas pasajeros. Una vez contraías la infección, quedabas convertido en aquello para siempre.

Through the Lens of a Master Cartoonist One Eye is a collection of paired photographs by Charles Burns that captures the strange undertones of a staggering range of objects and locales. From urban and pristine landscapes to flesh and food, the visual combinations are at the same time ambiguously uneasy and starkly coherent. Sandwiched together without room to breathe, the images are given distinctive symbiotic relationships. In some cases they initially appear as a single picture, while in others the shots are drastically dissimilar; regardless, the results are always complimentary. "Random Selection" juxtaposes the small orange square of a color selector card with an appropriately matched peeling sunburn. Random though they may be, Burns's choices are clearly the product of his unique rationale, carefully arranged into revealing pairs. One Eye is his world digested through a lens, and evidence of the scope of hisvisual language. D+Q presents One Eye as part of its Petits Livres series: affordable art books dedicated to acknowledging the wide variety of talent within the comics community and beyond.

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Ten years in the making, Charles Burns' magnum opus careens towards its inevitably apocalyptic conclusion, with only two issues remaining! This tenth issue is printed with the bleakest and blackest of ink to date. Ripe with the stench of infection, the home that Keith's been sitting all summer is now a safe house for kids with the bug. Meanwhile, his courtship of Chris having turned irrevocably black, Keith's futility is palpable until he bumps into a (seemingly) well Eliza at the supermarket. And what of those tadpoles growing out of Keith's ribs? Black Holemasterfully channels teenage angst and drug-induced paranoia, radiating physical dread to tell the haunting story of a plague that strikes mid-'70s Seattle and only afflicts teenagers. One of our finest titles ever.

A shadowy life spews forth from Harvey Award winning Charles Burns' dark pen once again, filling the page with an angst-ridden story of survival in a self-created civilization. Left alone in the woods to fend for herself, Chris finds hunger overwhelming and the wait for her boyfriend Rob doubly trying. Newly deflowered Keith takes her away from the cold tent and into his house. Everyone wonders why he's being so nice...Black Hole is probably the best portrayal of the uncertainty and desire of teenagers ever.

The long awaited concluding issue of Charles Burns' decade-long masterpiece of eerie angst. Still on the run Keith remains optimistic about life with Eliza (the girl with the tail) despite the challenges of maintaining his own reality; while Chris longs for home but finds herself travelling towards the dark emptiness that follows each of these plague-ridden teens. Burns' pen and masterful storytelling ability elicits the paranoia that envelopes the lives of these teens living in mid-70s Seattle. This final issue will leave you feeling completely blown away and queasy at the same time.