New Releases by Charles Burns

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 creativity As 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.

Maître d''un monde fantastique et fascinant, Charles Burns n''a jamais caché sa passion pour les comics des années 50. Inspiré par cette esthétique souvent romanesque, l''auteur de Dédales s''est amusé à créer une collection de couvertures de comics fictifs dans laquelle il intègre des éléments propres à son univers étrange et organique. Dans Caprice, il dévoile une trentaine d''illustrations inédites pensées comme autant de livres potentiels. La force de ses dessins offre ainsi une multitude d''interprétations, et suggère au lecteur d''imaginer l''histoire qui découle de chaque image. On retrouve dans cette série un condensé des thèmes qui parcourent l''ensemble de son œuvre : l''adolescence, la métamorphose, les cauchemars ou encore la sexualité, qui sont ici autant de prétextes à la création d''une imagerie mystérieuse et envoûtante. Publié en exclusivité mondiale, cet ouvrage est le premier numéro de la nouvelle collection Kim.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Tegneserie - graphic novel. A compilation of twenty-five issues of a secret, handmade sketchbook zine titled Free S**t into a single pocket-sized volume. Features finished drawings, rough sketches, process pieces, and more

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)

This guide is meant for first-time shoppers as well as those who might want more in-depth guidance on what to look for when choosing the right cut of meat. This is a simple tool that you can easily carry with you into the grocery store, ensuring that you walk out with the best choice you could have made at the meat counter.

Two small mouse brothers find themselves in the soup when they investigate good smells coming from a forbidden kitchen.

See what happens when two young mouse brothers in search of strawberries venture into a forbidden garden and encounter unexpected difficulties with the vegetables they find there.

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.)

"Silhouettes are an increasingly popular form of capturing portraits with a history that goes back hundreds of years. In this unique how-to book, silhouette artist Charles Burns teaches the basic techniques needed for making silhouettes: learning the proportions of a profile, tracing a shadow, reducing an image, drawing and cutting freely, and his own ''natural waves'' technique. You''ll learn to create scissor-cut portraits, painted silhouettes, hollow-cut silhouettes, silhouettes painted on glass, caricatures, and more, as well as how to use color, appliqué, and three-dimensional effects in creative and innovative ways and how to mount and display your creations."--Page 4 of cover.

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 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 . . . Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Hergé and William Burroughs, Charles Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream—and a comic-book masterpiece.

After a long absence, Matt returns in all his absurdly conflicted, tortured glory. In the tradition of Bukowski and R. Crumb, his tale turns on his disgust with himself and all of humanity, and, like the greats, Matt entertains as he cringes. His paradoxically clean and cheerful art is as likable as his persona is unlikable in this tale of avarice, obsession and masturbation. The episodic story begins in a bookstore, where Matt swoops in on a book he knows his friend, fellow cartoonist Seth, would love; Matt buys the book and then sells it to Seth at an obscene markup. The action moves on to Matt''s latest porn purchases, then stops by a coffee shop, where the author chews over his shortcomings with a third member of their cartoonist gang, Chester. Interposed are memories of childhood and scenes from Matt''s room in a boarding house, where his laziness and disgust with his fellow humans lead him to urinate in the largest jars he can find in order to avoid using the communal bathroom. The title indicates that Matt''s well aware of his entrenched personal issues - but this self-awareness never translates to any kind of epiphany or behavioral change.

Big Baby plays with his toys, find the monsters at the bottom of his neighbor''s new pool, finds a teen plague, and solves a mystery.

“The best graphic novel of the year” (Time) tells the story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle, revealing the horrifying nature of high school alienation—the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety, and the ennui. 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. 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…

An early cult classic graphic novel from the author of the acclaimed Black Hole.

When this book first came out in a limited edition run of 2,000 copies, it became an instant classic, sold out, and created a popular demand. This new version is just as cool and creepy, but is in a different size and format. Faces are die-cut into three sections and held by concealed wire-o so they can be flipped back and forth.

The history and current practice of the papal elections.

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

Cartoons tell the story of El Borbah, a bizarre costumed detective who investigates a teenager''s disappearance, a suicide, a secret cult, and a missing girlfriend

An impressionable boy named Tony Delmonte lives in a seemingly typicalAmerican suburb until he sneaks out of his room one night and becomesentangled in a horrific plot involving summer camp murders and backyardburials.