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Charles Burns


Born
in Washington, D.C., The United States
September 27, 1955

Genre
Comics & Graphic Novels


Charles Burns is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His comic book work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly magazine 'RAW' in the mid-1980s. Nowadays, Burns is best known for the horror/coming of age graphic novel Black Hole, originally serialised in twelve issues between 1995 and 2004. The story was eventually collected in one volume by Pantheon Books and received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. His following works X'ed Out (2010), The Hive (2012), Sugar Skull (2014), Last Look (2016) and Last Cut (2024) have also been published by Pantheon Books, although the latter was first released in France as a series of three French comic albums.
As an illustrator, Charles Bur ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.86 · 81,610 ratings · 5,489 reviews · 98 distinct works • Similar authors
Black Hole
3.85 avg rating — 52,821 ratings — published 2005 — 55 editions
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X'ed Out
3.82 avg rating — 7,096 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
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The Hive
3.99 avg rating — 4,138 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions
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Sugar Skull
3.95 avg rating — 2,479 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
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Final Cut
3.66 avg rating — 2,419 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions
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Big Baby
3.96 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions
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Last Look
4.08 avg rating — 1,544 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions
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El Borbah
3.96 avg rating — 1,118 ratings — published 1987 — 22 editions
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Skin Deep
4.09 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions
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Dédales
3.66 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 2019
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Series by Charles Burns

X'ed Out The Hive Sugar Skull
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Dédales Dédales 2 Dédales 3
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“It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.”
― Charles Burns, Black Hole
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“Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.

Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.

Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.

She's the one. She really is. I know that now.”
― Charles Burns, Black Hole
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“That was all I needed when she smiled at me, all the other stupid, ugly stuff just drifted away.”
― Charles Burns, Black Hole
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