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His illustrations have appeared in Time and The New Yorker, and he is responsible for the cover illustrations of the journal The Believer, presently in its 55th issue. Burns also enjoys a reputation for his work in non-narrative graphic design. Compilation volumes of two of Burns's early series, Big Baby: Curse of the Molemen and Hard-Boiled Detective Stories, were published under the RAW One-Shots imprint in 19, respectively. The clean teens outfitted for photographs inside the front cover reappear in the back in identical clothes and postures but with an assortment of disfiguring symptoms: receded lips that expose a boy's enlarged teeth jointed appendages that extend like insect legs from a girl's forehead slim tentacles that droop from every surface of another girl's face bulbous lesions that coat the face and scalp of a boy who has gone bald, and so on.įigures 1 & 2 Black Hole © 2005 Charles Burnsīurns and his lurid figures have been prominent among alternative comics artists since the early 1980s when his work appeared in the third issue of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly's influential RAW, a "graphix magazine." He created the cover art for the fourth issue, which includes a chapter of what would become Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir Maus. On the inside covers of the book, Burns includes rows of portraits in the format of a high school yearbook. The disease manifests differently for each of them many appear monstrous, and when exposed in public the infected are confronted with stares, denunciations, and assaults that impress on them the shameful character of their condition. The ailing teens inhabit a make-shift tent village hidden in the woods near their community, and they subsist mainly on the garbage and occasional charity of the healthy. Sick with what appears to be a sexually-transmitted disease that they call "the bug," an expanding group of teenagers lives in exile from their families and those uninfected students who still attend their high school in suburban Seattle. The kids who populate Charles Burns's graphic novel Black Hole are definitely not alright. Too Cruel: The Diseased Teens and Mean Bodies of Charles Burns's Black Hole