{"title":"Charles Burns","description":"\u003ch2\u003eComics, Graphic Novels, and Illustration\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Burns (born 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator whose work sits at the intersection of underground comics, avant-garde publishing, and commercial illustration. His draftsmanship — precise, high-contrast, and anatomically distorted in controlled ways — is immediately recognizable, and his career spans five decades of sustained output across serialized comics, collected editions, and image-making for print and advertising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurns came to wider attention through early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. He contributed a die-cut cover for RAW #4 in 1982, and Raw Books published two of his works as RAW One-Shots. His short comics from this period and the years following were later gathered in the three-volume Charles Burns Library — \u003cem\u003eEl Borbah\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eBig Baby\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), and \u003cem\u003eSkin Deep\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) — published as hardcovers by Fantagraphics Books. These volumes collect the bulk of his pre-\u003cem\u003eBlack Hole\u003c\/em\u003e work. A fourth volume, \u003cem\u003eBad Vibes\u003c\/em\u003e, was announced but not completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1993 to 2004, Burns serialized \u003cem\u003eBlack Hole\u003c\/em\u003e across 12 issues, published by Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics Books. The series was collected into a single volume in 2005. It won the Harvey Award and remains the work most closely associated with his name in Charles Burns graphic novels. In 2010, Burns began the Last Look trilogy with \u003cem\u003eX'ed Out\u003c\/em\u003e, followed by \u003cem\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eSugar Skull\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). Pantheon published the complete trilogy as a single volume, \u003cem\u003eLast Look\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2025, Burns won the Eisner Award for Best Writer\/Artist for \u003cem\u003eKommix\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFinal Cut\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eUnwholesome Love\u003c\/em\u003e. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutside comics, Burns has produced illustration work across a range of contexts: the album cover for Iggy Pop's \u003cem\u003eBrick by Brick\u003c\/em\u003e, advertising material for OK Soda and Altoids, and portrait illustrations for \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together Charles Burns books and publications available at Lokator100, dispatched from Germany with careful packing. Titles span his major \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/surreal-experimental-comics\"\u003eSurreal \u0026amp; Experimental Comics\u003c\/a\u003e output as well as works that cross into the territory of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/artbooks-artist-publications\"\u003eArtbooks \u0026amp; Artist Publications\u003c\/a\u003e. French-language editions published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/editions-cornelius\"\u003eÉditions Cornélius\u003c\/a\u003e may also appear in this collection where available.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/charles-burns.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}