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Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an award-winning U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. He is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories.
Comics works Charles Burns' earliest prominent works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine and contributions to Art Spiegelman's comic magazine RAW. Most of his short stories, published in various supports over the decades, have been collected in the three volumes of the "Charles Burns' Library" (hardcovers from Fantagraphics Books): El Borbah (1999), Big Baby (2000), and Skin Deep (2001). (A fourth and last volume, Bad Vibes, has yet to be published, which would have the Library collecting the entirety of his pre-Black Hole comics work.) From 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Black Hole (12 issues from Fantagraphics Books). In October 2005, he released a slightly remastered collection of Black Hole (hardcover from Pantheon Books). Illustration works Burns has done many high-profile illustrations, such as his work for the Iggy Pop album Brick by Brick. His artwork was also licensed by The Coca-Cola Company to illustrate some of the cans and advertising material for their failed OK Soda product. More recently, he has done ad work for Altoids and portrait illustrations for The Believer. His Dogboy stories were adapted by MTV in the early 1990s as a live-action serial for Liquid Television. | ||||||||
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