Its been ten long years but Charles Burns has finally finished his epic comic book, Black Hole. Black Hole is wildly surrealistic and disturbingly real at the same time. It takes place in the 1970s in Seattle where a group of teenagers have a sexually transmitted disease that eventually transforms them into mutants. The book is strong metaphor for your body changing in adolescence and how it affects your mindset. Big things are happening with the book, The Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja...
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priq
Philadelphia, PA
March 2006
APR 09, 2006 08:09 AM
Hey does anybody remember OK SODA? I loved his can art!
Charles Burns is a personal favorite of mine. I've been very influenced by his art and point of view. I love the way he takes the cheery, "Leave it to Beaver"-ish paradigm and twists it like taffy. Black Hole is wonderful, but his real gems (in my humble opinion) are the "Skin Deep" and "Big Baby" collections. "Skin Deep" is AMAZING and "Burn Again" (included in Skin Deep) is one of the wildest, most original critiques of organized religion and spiritual torment ever. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys very, very dark humor.
courtneyriot
STAFF
Los Angeles, CA
APR 09, 2006 06:00 AM