The Long Overdue Charles Burns Thread

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Bookslut has some good news for Black Hole collectors:

Charles Burns's Black Hole series will be collected as a graphic novel by Pantheon some time next year.

  Read The Pulse interview with Burns

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From today's Fantagraphics Newsletter

Back Hole #12

The long awaited concluding issue of Charles Burns' decade-long masterpiece of eerie angst.

Still on the run, Keith remains optimistic about life with Eliza (the girl with the tail) despite the challenges of maintaining his own reality; while Chris longs for home but finds herself travelling towards the dark emptiness that follows each of these plague-ridden teens. Burns' pen and masterful storytelling ability elicits the paranoia that envelopes the lives of these teens living in mid-70s Seattle. This final issue will leave you feeling completely blown away and queasy at the same time.

   Get it via Fantagraphics

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Goth Girl



An animated ad for Altoids Strips by Charles Burns...

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Charles Burns's "Black Hole" is finally finished and collected after ten years of being serialized by Fantagraphics. Charles Burns is profiled at the Baltimore City Paper:

After I was done with the series I did in newspapers, I very consciously wanted to not censor myself in any way. There’s certain stuff you can’t put in a weekly newspaper—themes and ideas I didn’t touch on because they were too dark. I wanted to tell a story where I could pull it all out.” Still, Burns says, he’s “not remotely interested in gratuitous sex or violence.” He simply wanted the story to be “as horrific as I could make it.”

Read on

  Also: Charles Burns talks to the Book Standard about "Black Hole"

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Jessa from the amazing Bookslut eZine reviews Charles Burns' "Black Hole". So does Ben Schwartz from The Washington Post.

Also, Andrew Arnold explains why "Black Hole" took Charles Burns ten years to finish.

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Charles Burns interview (by Frontaal Naakt)

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Avery and Gaiman Writing Black Hole

Roger Avery and Neil Gaiman are writing Black Hole, a horror romance story that Alexandre Aja will direct for Paramount Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. MTV Films, Plan B and Kevin Messick are producing.

Black Hole is a 12-issue comic book painstakingly written and illustrated by Charles Burns over a 10-year period that deals with fear of adulthood, sex and ostracism. When the work was finally completed last year, it was collected into a graphic novel, which garnered great acclaim and was in Entertainment Weekly's top 10 works of fiction for the year.

The story follows a group of high school students whose lives are altered drastically when they come in contact with a sexually transmitted disease called the "teen plague" or "the bug."

(via ComingSoon.net)