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CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine in the mid-1980s and took off from there, in an extraordinary range of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to the latest ad campaign for Altoids. In 1992 he designed the sets for Mark Morris's restaging of The Nutcracker (renamed The Hard Nut) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He illustrated covers for Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for The Believer magazine at its inception in...
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Black Hole
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
The 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... Read more >
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $19.95
The 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... Read more >
Black Hole
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $29.95
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... Read more >
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $29.95
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... Read more >
The Hive
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $21.95
From the creator of Black Hole ("The best graphic novel of the year." —Time; "Burns's masterwork." —The New York Times Book Review), the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color.
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing... Read more >
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $21.95
From the creator of Black Hole ("The best graphic novel of the year." —Time; "Burns's masterwork." —The New York Times Book Review), the second part of a new epic masterpiece of graphic horror in brilliant, vivid color.
Much has happened since we last saw Doug, the Tintin-like hero from X'ed Out. Confessing... Read more >
X'ed Out
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $19.95
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
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... Read more >
Written by Charles Burns
Format: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $19.95
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
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... Read more >
