New Releases by Charles Burns

"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.

Doug, un jeune homme, se lève avec un pansement sur la tempe. Que s''est-il passé ? Doug se laisse entraîner de l''autre côté du miroir par Inky, son chat noir, mort depuis des années... Un récit inspiré des collages de William Burroughs.

Tour of duty memoir as advisor in Buon Ho District, Vietnam.

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.

C''était comme une horrible partie de chat... On finit par découvrir qu''il s''agissait d''une nouvelle maladie qui n''affectait que les adolescents. On la surnomma la " peste ado " et " la crève ". Les symptômes en étaient aussi variés qu''imprévisibles... Certains s''en tiraient à bon compte - quelques bosses ou une vilaine éruption cutanée - d''autres devenaient des monstres ou il leur poussait de nouveaux membres... mais quels que fussent les symptômes, une fois touché, on était " le chat " pour toujours.

Handlingen i Sort Hull finner sted i en forstad av Seattle på syttitallet. Ungdommene der strever med pubertetsproblem alle vil kunne gjenkjenne: de første erfaringene med rus og med det annet kjønn, og med overgangen til en voksen tilværelse. Ungdommene i Black Hole må forholde seg til et helt spesielt problem, de står i fare for å bli smittet av en veldig hissig sykdom, kalt tenåringspesten eller sjuken. Sykdommen kan forårsake alt fra håravfall eller hårvekst til byller av ymse slag, nye åpninger i kroppen og annen deformering. Hovedpersonen, Keith Pearson, utvikler en ekstra munn i halsgropen, en munn som lever sitt eget liv.

“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…

Big Baby collects, for the very first time, all of Burns'' Big Baby stories in one handy collection. It includes Teen Plague (from RAW Vol. II #3), which served as the inspiration for Burns''s current masterpiece, the ongoing Black Hole. It also features the very first appearance of Big Baby from RAW #5 (never-before collected) and the classics Curse of the Molemen and Blood Club (here restored to the pristine black-and-white malevolence they were destined for). Big Baby is, of course, a odd young boy named Tony with a hyperactive imagination and fear of the dark. Rightfully so, as the stories in this book indicate...

Réunit trois histoires sur l''Amérique et ses peurs, dans lesquelles l''auteur s''inspire d''éléments disparates pour créer un univers névrosé et macabre. Derrière son humour décalé, surgissent la violence et la folie du modèle américain.

by Charles Burns Ten years in the making, Charles Burns'' magnum opus careens towards its inevitably apocalyptic conclusion, with only two issues remaining! This tenth issue is printed with the bleakest and blackest of ink to date: ripe with the stench of infection, the home that Keith''s been sitting all summer is now a safe house for kids with the bug. Meanwhile, his courtship of Chris having turned irrevocably black, Keith''s futility is palpable until he bumps into a (seemingly) well Eliza at the supermarket. And what of those tadpoles growing out of Keith''s ribs? The story of a mysterious plague that strikes mid-70s Seattle, only affecting teenagers. MATURE READERS b&w, 32pg

.html by Charles Burns A shadowy life spews forth from Harvey Award winning Charles Burns'' dark pen once again, filling the page with an angst-ridden story of survival in a self-created civilization. Left alone in the woods to fend for herself, Chris finds hunger overwhelming and the wait for her boyfriend Rob doubly trying. Newly deflowered Keith takes her away from the cold tent and into his house. Everyone wonders why he''s being so nice ... Black Hole is probably the best portrayal of the uncertainty and desire of teenagers ever. b&w, 32pg (9 of 13)

A collection of three horror comic strips describing a man who encounters imaginary beings.