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Black Hole (Hardcover)
Charles Burns
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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...
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Free S**t (Hardcover)
Charles Burns
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Black Hole (Hardcover)
Charles Burns
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And you thought your adolescence was scary. 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 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 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 moment in flux and
the kids who are caught in it - back when it wasn't exactly cool to
be a hippie any more, but Bowie was still just a little too weird.
To say nothing of sprouting horns and moulting your skin . . .
A strange plague has descended upon Seattles teenagers, transmitted
by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of
ways--from the hideously grotesque to the subtle. "Black Hole"
explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids
who are caught in it.
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Tour of duty memoir as advisor in Buon Ho District, Vietnam.
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X'ed Out (Hardcover)
Charles Burns; Illustrated by Charles Burns
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Meet Doug, aspiring young artist. He's 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 that's
no longer the case, as he slinks through the hole, beckoning Doug
to follow. So he does. Now there's no turning back. What the heck
is going on? To say much more would spoil the creepy, Burnsian fun,
especially since - unlike Black Hole - X'ed Out has not been
previously serialised anywhere and will have readers guessing at
every unnervingly meticulous panel. Drawing inspiration from such
diverse influences as Herge and William Burroughs, X'ed Out is an
engrossing new comic book fever-dream, from a true master of the
form at the height of his powers.
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