Charles Burns

Doug's strange night begins when he is awoken by a strange buzzing noise and opens his eyes to find his beloved--but dead--cat Inky climbing through a hole in the wall and beckoning Doug to follow.

X'ed Out

As Doug's journey reaches its end, he must learn to deal with the lie he's been telling himself since he set out.

Sugar Skull

Confessing his past to an unidentified woman, Doug struggles to recall an incident that may have involved his disturbed ex-girlfriend and her menacing ex-boyfriend, an effort that compels a search in a nightmarish alternate world.

The Hive

"A compilation of the author's three previous graphic novels"--Provided by publisher.

Last Look

"It's here- Charles Burns' epic story of existential horror, over ten years in the making. Yet another Cape graphic novel milestone. And you thought your adolescence was scary? Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970's. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested 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. s 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 of 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 (and, believe it or not, autobiographical), 'BLACK HOLE' transcends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural momemt in flux and the kids who are caught in it -

Black Hole

El Borbah

Hard-boiled Defective Stories

Črna luknja

Sem Volta

A softcover edition of an early classic by the author of Black Hole features a mask-wielding, portly private eye who pits his short temper and tough-talking investigations against a series of adversaries in such episodes as "Robot Love," "Love in Vein," and "Bone Voyage." Reprint.

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.

Free S**t

Daedalus 1

The hugely popular 'Big Baby' stories collected in one deluxe volume for the first time. This is the second of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting the entirety of Burns' oevre up to his current magnum opus BLACK HOLE. Features every peice of BB comics and art available, and features brand new covers, endpapers, and over a dozen pages of never-before seen BB illustrations.

Big Baby

Zwart gat / druk 1

Matt Madden

Jessica Abel

Features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, including work by Tim Hensley, Ted Stearn, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware.

The Best American Comics 2009

Gary Panter

These masters of the underground comix scene have created an updated version of an old children's board-book favorite. Facetasm is a children's board-book for teenagers and grown-ups alike -- the artists have created 16 cool and creepy faces which break up into three sections -- top, middle and bottom, so that you can mix and match the faces to form over 700 different nightmarish combinations. When this book first came out in a limited-edition run it became an instant classic. Although the book went out of print over three years ago, there has been a constant demand for it, and now it's finally reprinted in a new size and format with four more faces to play with! Perfect for Halloween and for Christmas giving to practically anyone!

A Creepy Mix & Match Book of Gross Face Mutations!

Facetasm

Doug is still in the netherworld. He's working a cleaning job in the Hive's stinking hallways, trying to ignore the screams, and reading romance comics to the breeders. But as the stories unravel on the page, frame by frame, mirrored memories plunge him back into his waking life. And that's where the real nightmare is. In Burns's trademark hard-edged style, The Hive is horrifying and completely absorbing: an incredible new installment from one of the most exciting artists in the comics world.

Charles Burns is the creator of the landmark horror graphic novel, Black Hole, currently in production as a major motion picture directed by David Fincher. Skin Deep is the last in a series of three volumes collecting his acclaimed oeuvre up to Black Hole. In addition to the stories, Skin Deep also includes several pages of illustrations reprinted from Burns' sketchbooks, as well as covers and other pieces from foreign editions of the author's work.

Skin Deep

Art Spiegelman

R. Sikoryak

One of the decade's premiere illustrators presents three "Tales of Doomed Romance": Burn Again, a long strange tale of a hypnotic televangelist and his messianic cu

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